P6 start & finishes fixed

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Bill OBrien 👤 Member for 19 years 3 months

I am creating a revised target program. I have a number of activities which start dates are pushing out past the data date or will not fix to the date I assign. These activities have no constraints and no relationships! Something is driving them but it is unclear what. The start and finish dates show a star symbol even though no constraints or relationships are assigned? Has anyone come across this before?

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Anning Sofi 👤 Member for 14 years 4 months

There are other ways to clear the external links, but Frederick method is quick and simple.

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Bill OBrien 👤 Member for 19 years 3 months

Just checked my External links and your correct.

Frederic your a legend, thank you very much.

Its always somthing simple....

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Frederic Fasquelle 👤 Member for 20 years 2 months

Bill,

I faced the same issue: Star symbol on finish dates while no constraint was assigned.

It was coming from field "External finish date". Indeed, when some inter-project relationship are lost, P6 is constraining Early/late dates. Like this, it is artificially keeping time logic.

To recover a proper schedule, add column "External finish date" and manually remove date within cells.

Launch calculation, everything should be OK,

regards

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