How can I schedule the project date?

[Aditya]

Hi All,

I am developing an addon tool for MSProject 2007. I am using VS2008 to
develop this. I have created a list box, the user has 2 options to schedule
the project from Start/Finish. Once he selects Start/Finish I need to move
the project to scheduled date.

Can anybody help me out..

Thanks,
Aditya.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Unless you haeve constraints on your tasks, Project does that automatically.

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[Aditya]

Hi Jan,

The list box that i created allows the user to schedule the project while
also adding certain new tasks to the project at the end. So the MS Project
Sheduling works properly when the project is scheduled to the start date but
not when we schedule the project from the finish date. So i need to
manipulate these scheduling dates from my list box. The MS Project Properties
marks the scheduling dates which we want to Access as Read Only... We are
using C#.NET to develop this...
Please help me out...

Thanks,
Aditya.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Scheduling from finish date is not my idea of managing a project (starting
everything as late as possible is a guarantee of running late!) but here are
a few thoughts:

First, if you only want to KNOW the latest dates, tehy are there in >Project
all of the time (LateStart, LateFinish). No need to reschedule.

If you DO want to show the ask as late as possible, once your projecyt has
bene set up that can indeed be a problem because the tasks already have the
coinstraint as sson as possible and you will have to change that.

On project level the instruction is:

activeproject.schedulefromstart=false

then you can set

activeproject.projectfinish="1/9/8"

From then onward new tasks will be scheduled as late as possible.
The existing tasks will however keep their existing constraints of asap!

You can then do the following:

for each job in activeproject.tasks
if not job is nothing then
if not job.summary then
if job.constrainttype=pjasap then
job.constrainttype=pjalap
end if
end if
end if
next job

And the future catastrophy will be scheduled for you as desired )

Greetings,
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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf