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Problem with relationships to completed/in progress tasks

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Kate Nash
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Hi

 

I hope this is a simple problem that can be easily fixed!

I have relationships to tasks in my project, however, when I set the task to started or finished, and then schedule the project, it seems to lose the relationship to the predecessor and seems to start on a seemingly random date

Is there an option I have to set to keep the relationships the same regardless of whether the activity is not started, in progress or completed?

Thanks!

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Frederic Fasquelle
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Joined: 16 Mar 2006
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Hi Kate,

If there are links, they can not be deleted during schedule.
If a logic is not respected, it must come from wrong links applied to your predecessors.
Lets imagine that you have 3 activities in FS

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After your update, acitivty B is declared as completed while A is on going. Thus even if activity C is linked to B, it will not before completion of A.

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This could be one reason.


Nevertheless, you can use "Mandatory contraint", but this clearly not a good practice in my mind.
It is hidding your logic or mistake as identified here above,

Regards