Overriding Duration field

Paul, 

Managed to find a simple solution to your question. Follow these steps and you should be able to adjust the start and finish dates without them moving. 

File>Options>Edit Tab>The top one under tasks 'When editing start or finish in spreadsheet'>change this to 'move duration'

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Vas

Hello Paul, 

I am unaware of any setting option which can be adjusted so that you can enter the start and finish date manually.

But what Asta does allow you to do is to enter the duration of the activity, which you should know if have your start and finish dates. Then once this is complete you can add the logical sequence links to the programme which should result in the activities finishing as intended. 

However there is another way, you can enter the start date manually and then by clicking on the left end of the activity bar you can drag it to the intended finish date. 

Hope this helps.

I would also be interested to hear from anyone aboiut a setting which can be adjusted so this does not happen. 

Cheers,

Vas