Hey everyone,
I’m wondering why when I change a start date, the end date changes as well to the same date as the start date for a task. Is there a way to stop that from happening?
Best Regards,
Yes that’s the standard behavior - Each planning lines will have the same start and end date but say if you have 10 lines than on the task level system will have the earliest date of the planning as a start date and the last date as an end date.
I do not normally complain about BC, but in this case it is a lack of capability in base BC Projects. Ideally you should enter a start date and the number of hours for the Resource, the system would then look at the Resource’s capacity to calculate an End Date based on how many days would be required to consume the total hours.
The reason I think it doesn’t do this is because you could have multiple resources working on a single Task, which would shorten the date calculation. Yet, instead of doing at least some calculation, BC doesn’t do any.
I would like to see Microsoft add a “Calc’d End Date” and a “Planned End Date” to the Project Task lines. Unfortunately, very few people use BC Projects to this level of scheduling, and if they do they would use one of the ISV Extensions which does a better job handling this requirement.
Sorry that doesn’t help, but at least you know you aren’t doing something wrong.