Hammock activities

[Keith Cognevich]

I remember in early versions of MS Project I could create a task and identify it as a "hammock". It was linked start-to-start with task A and finish-to-finish with task B. Because it was identified as a hammock, its duration was auto calculated as the time between the start of task A and the finish of task B. Any changes to task A or B (e.g., slippage) automatically changed start date, end date, and/or duration of the hammock. In other words, the hammock activity automatically lasted from the beginning of task A to the end of task B. I don't see that option anywhere in MS Project 2000 - how can I do it?

 

[JackD]

It is done the same way as before.
See the FAQ item 19, Hammock Tasks:

http://mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

-Jack

I remember in early versions of MS Project I could create a task and

identify it as a "hammock". It was linked start-to-start with task A and
finish-to-finish with task B. Because it was identified as a hammock, its
duration was auto calculated as the time between the start of task A and the
finish of task B. Any changes to task A or B (e.g., slippage) automatically
changed start date, end date, and/or duration of the hammock. In other
words, the hammock activity automatically lasted from the beginning of task
A to the end of task B. I don't see that option anywhere in MS Project
2000 - how can I do it?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Keith,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Please see FAQ Item: 19. Hammock Tasks.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Keith Cognevich]

Thanks Jack and Mike. I obviously didn't look in the right place. It works, but it's different from what I remembered. I remembered establishing a hammock by how I defined the predecessors (ss and ff), not by linking the date fields. I've been away from Project for 5 years and things must have changed.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Keith

Haven't used Project before 1993, but since then definitely, no way to make
Hammock tasks by links. You probably remember an othe rproduct.
Greetings,

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Jan De Messemaeker
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Project Management Consultancy
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Thanks Jack and Mike. I obviously didn't look in the right place. It

works, but it's different from what I remembered. I remembered establishing
a hammock by how I defined the predecessors (ss and ff), not by linking the
date fields. I've been away from Project for 5 years and things must have
changed.

 

[Michael Uyeda]

Try looking at Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
141733, "How to Build a Hammock Task".
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;141733&Product=PRJ2K

I have not tried it yet, but I saw the article the other
day.

-----Original Message-----
I remember in early versions of MS Project I could create

a task and identify it as a "hammock". It was linked
start-to-start with task A and finish-to-finish with task
B. Because it was identified as a hammock, its duration
was auto calculated as the time between the start of task
A and the finish of task B. Any changes to task A or B
(e.g., slippage) automatically changed start date, end
date, and/or duration of the hammock. In other words, the
hammock activity automatically lasted from the beginning
of task A to the end of task B. I don't see that option
anywhere in MS Project 2000 - how can I do it?