lead time?

[Chap]

SCENARIO: I am scheduling a project from an end date. I am creating a bunch
of finish to finish relationships using the end date for various tasks that
take place as the project finishes.
Several tasks need to end 5 days or 1 week ahead of the start date, but I
cannot seem to figure out how to get them to do this without setting static
dates.
For example, the project end date is 1/1/08. We want to send a press
release out to some of our clients a little over a week prior to that. And
the press release task is linked to another task for the creation of the
press release in a finish to start relationship.

How can I set it up such that the end date stays at 1/1/08, the press
release goes out 12/28/07, and have the Create Press Release task start on
12/21/07 and end on 12/28/07? I have no problems linking the tasks together
in the appropriate fashion, but I cannot get the lag/lead time to work so the
press release goes out a week ahead of the actual release of the product.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

This is a case for a Start to Finish relationship. The dependency goes from
the start of the end date to the finish of the create press release task
with the appropriate lag.

Easiest way to do this is link them in a normal manner, then double click
the link and change it from FS to SF and enter the lag.
-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Chap]

Worked like a charm!! Think i was highlighting the wrong task first. Thank
you very much!!!