Custom date field = Finish Date + 2 *working* days?

[sjk1000]

Hi all
I want to add a custom date field in a new column to show a deadlin
date for reviewing documents - this review period is not a task I wan
to show in the plan.

The review deadline for each document should be equal to the Finis
Date + 2 working days. I can get the "Finish Date + 2" to work but ho
do I specify the calendar the formula needs to use?
Thanks, Stev

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Use the function ProjDateAdd, it takes the calendar into account.
HTH

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For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf

 

[Steve House]

Since the deadline is always two days after the finish, be it scheduled
finish or actual finish, is it EVER going to be possible for a task to miss
its deadline? If the task starts slipping, the deadline always gets pushed
out by the same amount as the delay. Since it's impossible to ever miss a
deadline, thus initiating some corrective action, what's the point in having
one?

 

[Steve House]

Yep - that's why my first thought would be to set it up with "Prepare
Document and Submit for Review" as a task (optionally as "Prep Doc" as the
task followed by "Submitted for Review" as a milestone), followed by a
"Review Complete" successor milestone linked FS with a 2-day lag time, thus
taking the expected review time into account in the schedule.