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Gantt Chart Child activity start date locked to parent start date..
Having a strange issue where I cannot change the start date of a child activity. It locks to the parent activity start date. Also if I try to add a new activity below the same parent, or if I create it somewhere else and move it to below the parent - it still locks it to to the parent start date.
None of the activities have completion% or status. If I right click the bar and choose edit - only duration can be edited.
I do like the dependencies, but don't understand when and why a child's start date is locked to a parent. I have other activities in the same schedule where children start date are set and the just reflected by the parent.
Workaround? Setting? All suggestions are welcome.
Comments
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Fredrik,
Are you using Predecessors?
If you are then one of the possible causes is that you have created a link to the hierarchy row.
Predecessors are for managing/controling tasks and not hierarchies. It is the tasks that drive the project not the hierarchies. Also you can also end up creating a circular reference if you link to Hiearchies as well as tasks.
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If you have somehow gotten a date entered into the Start Date for a parent, the children will 'inherit' that date until dates, predecessors, or duration are entered for them specifically.
Delete the dates for the parent row and let them recalculate.
Craig
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They behaviour it is the same that you are explaining above,
The children cannot modify its data freely it inherits from its parents,
this is not how Microsoft Projects works, I was wondering what was the reason behind this decision, the children should have a sort of freedom, in order to grow independently.
Any thoughts
