Bo, good observation about MSP milestones as compared to others.
i suppose in MSP a milestone is an "indicator" (unlike other software which traet it as an activity). it just indicate the start or end of the predecessor depending on the logic type (SS will indicate the start)
as for milestone without a predecessor..
definitely it has to be a start milestone since there is nothing for it to indicate as an end of...
so i suppose Trevor provided the only solution to ur requirement... play around with the lag to get the date u prefer.
Well, just found the answer to part of the question: Enter the date in the "Finish"-column instead of the "Start"-column.
However, I still have a problem in certain situations where the milestone do have predecessors, e.g. say I have completion of "Snagging" and/or "Test/Commissioning" activities on day X and "Handover of Project" on day X+1. If "Handover" is just a milestone linked with FS and duration of 0, it will also end of day X instead of X+1, i.e. on site Ill finish my activities late one evening and the Client/Owner wont take over the following morning, but the programme will show me hell take over the same evening (which is not correct because he is home sleeping).
Do I "cheat" MS Project again and make that milestone (Handover) have a duration of 1 day?
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Bo, good observation about MSP milestones as compared to others.
i suppose in MSP a milestone is an "indicator" (unlike other software which traet it as an activity). it just indicate the start or end of the predecessor depending on the logic type (SS will indicate the start)
as for milestone without a predecessor..
definitely it has to be a start milestone since there is nothing for it to indicate as an end of...
so i suppose Trevor provided the only solution to ur requirement... play around with the lag to get the date u prefer.
Add a little bit of Lag?
Well, just found the answer to part of the question: Enter the date in the "Finish"-column instead of the "Start"-column.
However, I still have a problem in certain situations where the milestone do have predecessors, e.g. say I have completion of "Snagging" and/or "Test/Commissioning" activities on day X and "Handover of Project" on day X+1. If "Handover" is just a milestone linked with FS and duration of 0, it will also end of day X instead of X+1, i.e. on site Ill finish my activities late one evening and the Client/Owner wont take over the following morning, but the programme will show me hell take over the same evening (which is not correct because he is home sleeping).
Do I "cheat" MS Project again and make that milestone (Handover) have a duration of 1 day?
Regards,
Bo