Actual Work Assignment Take 2

[jov]

I've investigated further and would like to detail my findings, please
ignore my previous post.

Scenario:
I have a task with assignments, I give the assignments a TimeScaleValue
for ActualWork which sets the Start and End dates for the task.
I change the End Date(to finish later) for the task and the Actual Work
assignment is split across the newly added days!
Alternatively:
Same scenario but I change the Start Date(to start earlier) for the
task, this causes the Actual Work assignment to be moved to the new
start date!

I would understand that it do this for Work, but why does it change the
Actual Work ?! I would have thought that actual Work is fixed and thus
imovable.

Any help is much appreciated.

thanks,
John

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi joov,

Let's try to be philosophical about this.
When you first enter actual work, then change sopmething, by all means
somethig's gotta give, no?
Thses are the options taken by those who wrote tthe software.
I personally accept that when you modify actual start, the whole co,ntour of
actual work follows congruently, that would be my option as well.
Modifying the actual work by day would NOT have been my option (I would
again have shifted the whole task) but who am I?

Greetings,

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Jov:

If your task is fixed-duration, this is the expected behavior.