Jumping to Predecessor

The way it works is when you click a link and right click it for properties, it gives properties for that particular link (like type of link, lags/leads). If that is not the link you want to edit, you need to do it again. There is no keystroke or anything that takes you to another link.



If you want to see all the links for an activity, it is easy. You can select the activity and then right click for peroperties and go to the links tab. Here it shows all incoming and outgoing links to that particular activity. Ideally it would have been the right place/window to edit those relationships. But Power Project does not allow to edit links in this window. You see the problem here but to correct that problem, you need to click that particular link (arrow) from bar chart. This is very frustrating.

I mean GUI

GIU is definintely more user friendly. But the question in case for links in Power Project is that it is VISUAL rather than graphical. Just to illustrate - one milstone activity may have 10 predecessors. You want to edit one of them. In Power Project the only way to pick that particular link is to click the mouse in the right link coming to the milestone (or activity). It is very much a visual thing now - you right click the link and find that that you have clicked the wrong one. You keep on doing it until you hit it right. Even with 500% zoom, it is very difficult and frustrating that you don’t hit it right. In such cirumstances you would definitly wish that those links can be edited easier way.

Yes, you can bend and use different colours to the relationship lines to identify. They are still graphical interface to work with links. Even in Microsoft Project, one can easily edit relationship by exact text in columns. But the Power Project with so many additional features, seem to lag way behind in this aspect of relationship editing.

Well that was something I had seen before. Anyway, this button brings only related activities on the screen.



Editing the link is still a very difficult task in Power Project as it is fully dependent on graphical input only.



You can get into the properties of a task by double clicking it. You can also go to Links Tab which show Incoming and Outgoing links. You can only view it. You cannot change anything here.

Where are the predecessor/successor buttons in view menu?

Surprisingly, ASTA customer support is answering the questions very fast. The answers I have received so far indicate that Power Project does not have easy ways of editing links.

Well in MSP, at least there is Go to function (F5) which is good enough to jump around. Power Project does not have anything like that too.

Exactly. I just want to edit the relationship and there does not seem to be an easy way around.



In the Spreadsheet area, I have created columns for Predecessor and Successor. They display the Line number of predecessor or successor but it cannot display lags or leads associated with these links.



I need to display and edit these relationships without depending on right clicking the relationship lines in graphical area which is proving to be very difficult as there are many lines and they overlap on top of each other making it almost impossible to search the link you are looking for.



And if possible, I should able to jump between these links so that you can continue to edit the chain of links (just like you do in other software like P3).

Thank you Andrew and Alexandre,



I contacted ASTA customer support and their answer was to right-clicking the link and "Go to the other end". This is purely graphical solution and quite difficult to click exactly the place you want. So it is very difficult to edit relationships.