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04-09-2008, 04:22 PM
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 Start and Finish Dates for a Project If I create a project using the PSI and set the Finish Date, how does the Start date get determined. How does it get determined especially if your tasks get created without any durations?      |
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04-09-2008, 05:46 PM
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The default value of both PROJ_INFO_FINISH_DATE and PROJ_INFO_START_DATE is the current server date. PROJ_INFO_FINISH_DATE is ignored when PROJ_INFO_SCHED_FROM is true, and PROJ_INFO_START_DATE is ignored when PROJ_INFO_SCHED_FROM is false. Without getting into all of the possible (and complicated) scheduling scenarios, the Start date for a Schedule from Finish project is calculated by subtracting the longest task Duration from the project's Finish date (meaning that the project's Finish date should be equal to the earliest task Start date in the project). Therefore, I would expect that if you create a new project, set PROJ_INFO_SCHED_FROM to false, and set PROJ_INFO_FINISH_DATE to some value, whatever Finish date you set would be used as both the Start and Finish for any tasks you create with a Duration of 0 (and therefore for the project). Is this not consistent with the behavior you are seeing?
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04-09-2008, 06:07 PM
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| I am setting the Finish Date for the project on creation. Somehow, the project is getting set to Schedule From Start. I have no idea then where the Start date is coming from. I have seen start dates that are even before the system date when the project was loaded. Sometimes with Project, it almost seems like things just happen. |
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04-09-2008, 07:28 PM
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Beyond that, I can't really provide much guidance without seeing all of your relevant code.
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