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From: Craig on 17 Feb 2010 13:02 Win XP/MS Project 2003 I have a question: How do you make a task start on the next Wednesday after the predecessor ends? We have a project where we need to have certain tasks start only on wednesdays or fridays and thus we would like a way to set the start times to be on the next working Wednesday or next working Friday. Such a setting would then automatically update during modifications to the overall Project plan. Right now we have to manually update each start date everytime we make changes which of course defeats the purpose of using Project somewhat. Thanks. Craig
From: Dale Howard [MVP] on 17 Feb 2010 13:38
Craig -- I would recommend you create a custom calendar that shows only Wednesdays and Fridays as working time, with every other day marked as nonworking time. Then you can apply this special calendar as a Task calendar on any task that needs to start on the next available Wednesday or Friday. To do this, double-click the name of a task and click the Advanced tab. In the bottom half of the dialog, click the Calendar pick list and choose your custom calendar, and then click the OK button. You will need to repeat this process for every task that starts on the next available Wednesday or Friday. After doing this, if your schedule changes, these special tasks will be rescheduled as you want them to be on the next available Wednesday or Friday. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] VP of Educational Services msProjectExperts http://www.msprojectexperts.com http://www.projectserverexperts.com "We write the books on Project Server" "Craig" <Craig(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EF32B2DF-11B3-4B0A-BFB4-D384D72D7120(a)microsoft.com... > Win XP/MS Project 2003 > > I have a question: How do you make a task start on the next Wednesday > after > the predecessor ends? We have a project where we need to have certain > tasks > start only on wednesdays or fridays and thus we would like a way to set > the > start times to be on the next working Wednesday or next working Friday. > Such > a setting would then automatically update during modifications to the > overall > Project plan. > > Right now we have to manually update each start date everytime we make > changes which of course defeats the purpose of using Project somewhat. > > Thanks. > > Craig |