How to prevent concurrent tasks

[Tunamonster]

I'm working on a house remodel and we're going to need asbestos abatement.
When this task occurs no other tasks can be concurrent for obvious reasons.
How can I get Project to not schedule tasks concurent with the asbestos
abatement task?

 

[Rod Gill]

All tasks should be linked (no dates entered). By linking Tasks to the
asbestos cleanup finish then you get what you want.

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Rod Gill
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Author of the only book on Project VBA, see: http://www.projectvbabook.com

I'm working on a house remodel and we're going to need asbestos abatement.
When this task occurs no other tasks can be concurrent for obvious
reasons.
How can I get Project to not schedule tasks concurent with the asbestos
abatement task?

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[Melanie Remen]

Hi Tunamonster, hope you are well

You need to tell Project these tasks have a relationship to each other, or
that they need to be done in a certain sequence. Linking tasks creates a
relationship or dependency between the tasks. By default, linking tasks
forces one task to finish before the next one can start, or what's referred
to as a Finish to Start (FS) relationship. In your situation this means if
the tasks in the project are linked, then no other task will happen at the
same time as your asbestos abatement task.

To link tasks with the default FS relationship (Project 2003 or 2007),
select all tasks to be linked and press the link button on the toolbar. The
link button on the toolbar looks like a link in a chain. (or press Ctrl + F2).

If some other tasks can, or need to happen concurrently, then you can choose
to link only selected tasks. Or, perhaps more appropriately, if you have
linked all tasks in the project any they have the default FS relationship,
you can amend the task relationship between these tasks to a Start-Start
type, meaning these tasks could both start at the same time. Below is a link
to more about linking tasks and their relationship types below.

http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102106881033&pid=CR102140061033

Hope this information has been useful to you.
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Kind regards

Melanie Remen
For more tips on Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server, please
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[salgud]

Hi Tunamonster, hope you are well

You need to tell Project these tasks have a relationship to each other, or
that they need to be done in a certain sequence. Linking tasks creates a
relationship or dependency between the tasks. By default, linking tasks
forces one task to finish before the next one can start, or what's referred
to as a Finish to Start (FS) relationship. In your situation this means if
the tasks in the project are linked, then no other task will happen at the
same time as your asbestos abatement task.

To link tasks with the default FS relationship (Project 2003 or 2007),
select all tasks to be linked and press the link button on the toolbar. The
link button on the toolbar looks like a link in a chain. (or press Ctrl + F2).

If some other tasks can, or need to happen concurrently, then you can choose
to link only selected tasks. Or, perhaps more appropriately, if you have
linked all tasks in the project any they have the default FS relationship,
you can amend the task relationship between these tasks to a Start-Start
type, meaning these tasks could both start at the same time. Below is a link
to more about linking tasks and their relationship types below.

http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102106881033&pid=CR102140061033

Hope this information has been useful to you.

I would hesitate to use links for this since there really isn't a
dependency relationship between these tasks, the other tasks are being
delayed due to safety issues. Rather, I'd use each task's own task calendar
and put a non-working time during the duration of the asbestos work. That
way, the tasks can start before the asbestos work, if practical, and
contunue afterwards, which they can't do if they're linked.

Alternately, you could make the project calendar with a break in it during
that time, and give the asbestos work task it's own calendar with those
days as working days.

This is definitely a calendar issue, not a dependency issue.

HTH