Lag Task or Padding the start time for a task?

[Shawn Everingham]

I have hopefully not a unique case here, so thought I'd see if there was
solution or idea that would work for us in this case.

Task 1 is linked to Task 2....
Task 2 is an 8hr piece of work accomplished by a business user (who doesn't
use PWA or Project) Task 2 is linked to Task 3.
Task 3 really needs to start one day after Task 1 finishes.

We need to account for a 1 day padding between Task 1 and Task 3. How do we
do that? Task 2 will never get updated by any resource, so we basically need
Task 2 to be a stop watch. We may not even need Task 2.

I was trying to set a formula for Task 3 to be = Actual Finish Date of Task
1 + 1 day...I don't seem to be able to do that?

How can I dynamically set a task start date to be the finish date of a
previous task + some amount of time?

Hope I"m making sense here...Let me know if not. THanks in advance!
Shawn

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi Shawn,
Basically, you need to add +1day of lag time between task 1 and task 3.
Create a Finish to start relationship between T1 and T3, and then double
click on task 3 so you get the task information dialogue, and in the
predecessor tab select the lag column and type in 1d. This should work for
you.

 

[Shawn Everingham]

RTFM! haha! perfect Ben! Exactly what I needed! Thank you!