Problem when set activity status to (Started)

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Anas Almari 👤 Member for 6 years 10 months

Hello every body

I faced a problem that when i put a checkmark on the "Start" option the activity goes back to the start of the project and cannot be moved back again to its place

Please need your help

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Zoltan Palffy 👤 Member for 16 years 10 months

to mark an activity started check the starte dbox then select the drop dpnw and select the ACTUAL date that this actviity started

when done statusing the schedule actual start and finish dates change the data date and run the schedule calculations again. 

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Tom Boyle 👤 Member for 19 years 6 months

Anas,

(You have changed your problem statement since the original post.  This addresses your most recent comment.)

Any actual dates after the data date are wrong.  To fix, re-schedule with the Data Date advanced to just after the AS of your second task.  This is normally done as part of a disciplined progress update process, after all actual dates and remaining durations are entered.

Alternately, you could keep the existing Data Date (with completed work in the future), then re-schedule using the "Actual Dates" option instead of "Retained Logic."  This option is wrong on many levels, but it will give you the dates you want in your example.

Good luck, tom 

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Anas Almari 👤 Member for 6 years 10 months
Thank you for responding,
Please I want you simply to create a new random project then insert three random activities then ---> Link activities then set the first activity as “Completed” .
Once you set the second activity as “In progress” You will find it moved back to the start of project !!!  Why ?
Pleas just try this and tell me if you can move it again to its location 
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Santosh Bhat 👤 Member for 21 years 1 month

When you tick the box "Started"" this is indicating that the activity in question has commenced, and is therefore in progress - as shown in the activity status column. However, you also need to provide the Actual Start date if it is differnent to the value shown.

Are you displaying Early Start dates on the bar? once you tick the box you should display Actual Start date, or alteverively the field simply called "start" as this displays the correct date based on the activity status.

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