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Originally Posted by jimaksel  A real cost accounting fiscal year based calendar
More flexible deadlines and constraints. Example: Many times we are given due dates such as "The final speficiation is due 30 calendar days after receipt of customer comments on the draft specification." I want that deadline date to be flexible in the Deadline Date field and tied to a separate task. For now, I have to hand calcuate it and change it when necessary.
The "created" field is helpful. A new field "LastChanged" providing the date someone last changed something about a task. | More robust (*cough*) task update auditing would be great, but consider the volume of data we would be talking about... On a plan under development, we could be talking about thousands of changes in the course of a month. Is the ability to restrict updates to PWA not enough for you?
As for the constraints, have you tried creating a 0-day (milestone) task that's a predecessor to the hypothetical "specifications" task? You could make that milestone a successor to the "customer comments" task. I rarely use constraints or deadlines on "real" tasks anymore -- pretty much only milestones.
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