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Gerry,
I’m a little confused.
The start date signifies the start of the project. The rest of the schedule should be driven by a precedence network. Most, if not all of the activities will have a finish-start relationship, i.e. the next task in the chain will start after the preceding task is complete.
When the first task in your schedule is complete what happens? Does everyone just down tools and hang around or is there something else that happens in the meantime?
If in the unlikely event that nothing else is going to happen, why do you have to start the project on that date?
I can think of a couple of quick workarounds that might help you out, however, from a planning perspective I wouldn’t particularly recommend either of them. It’s just manipulating the scheduling software to show a contrived view of the project.
Option 1
Add soft constraint dates on all the ensuing tasks so they start on the correct dates.
Option 2
Add a lags on all the ensuing tasks so they start on the correct dates.
Regards,
Darren
You dont need to remove all the links but just the key link.
Is there a way of removing the links and puting them back quickly. The only way I know to put them back is one at a time?
I dont think I understand but how about temporarily removing the link?
I did try this but because the tasks after the start date are linked when I amended the start date as you suggested all the follow-up tasks also moved.
Gerry , the following should help
using the top toolbar
project
project information
select your project start date
ok