HOw to set LS, ES, LF, EF in project 2007?

[KentZhou]

In Project, you can set start time and Finish time. Then how to set LS,
ES, LF, EF? are those time same as Start TIme and Finish Time or need to
set manually for each tasks?
How how to set calculation for Free Slack automatically? or Need to
calc them and enter manually one by one?

 

[Jack Dahlgren MVP]

If you are scheduling using default settings (schedule from start date)
then:

Start = Early Start
Finish = Early Finish
Start + Total Slack = Late Start
Finish + Total Slack = Late Finish

Project will calculate all of these automatically given a project start
date, task durations and dependencies. You never need to enter in start and
finish dates. And if you do, then project will treat them as constraints. So
don't do that if you want to avoid schedule constraints.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[salgud]

In Project, you can set start time and Finish time. Then how to set LS,
ES, LF, EF? are those time same as Start TIme and Finish Time or need to
set manually for each tasks?
How how to set calculation for Free Slack automatically? or Need to
calc them and enter manually one by one?

Those dates are not set manually, they are calculated doing Critial Path
Method scheduling. If you're not familar with these, you might want to look
them up and get at least some understanding of how CPM works. It will both
make Project easier to use and yield a great deal of useful information, if
you know how to interpret them.

Hope this helps in your world.

 

[JulieS]

Hello KentZhou,

In addition to Jack and Dave's excellent advice, see the Schedule
table. (View > Table > Schedule). It will show Start, Finish, Late
Start, Late Finish, Free Slack, and Total Slack.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information about Microsoft Project

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi KentZhou ,

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #1 which includes a simple critical path
analysis tutorial, at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

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
MS Project MVP