Linking Multiple Tasks in order to drag one and the others follow

[Steve Scott]

e.g. I have 5 tasks of equal duration all starting and finishing on the same
dates. I want to be able to drag ANY of the 5 tasks to start earlier or
later and then see the others dragged as well so that they all line up as
equal duration and all starting and finishing on the new dates.

Simple SS and FF links don't work and produce different results depending
upon which task in the sequence is moved first.

Any ideas on how to tackle this?

Thanks

 

[John]

e.g. I have 5 tasks of equal duration all starting and finishing on the same
dates. I want to be able to drag ANY of the 5 tasks to start earlier or
later and then see the others dragged as well so that they all line up as
equal duration and all starting and finishing on the new dates.

Simple SS and FF links don't work and produce different results depending
upon which task in the sequence is moved first.

Any ideas on how to tackle this?

Thanks

Steve,
Didn't you ask this same question a week or so ago? If not, then
somebody else wanted to do the same thing. You are right, you can't get
there from here with simple predecessor links. It could be done with VBA
but then that seems like overkill and you'd have to run the code each
time you dragged one of the tasks.

It miiiiiiiight be possible with Paste Links, but, you don't even want
to go there. Since there are only 5 tasks, I suggest you bite the
bullet, drag each of them, and be done with it.

John
Project MVP

 

[Steve Scott]

Sorry there are actually 2000+ tasks group into projects which each have a
number of work packages in each. I want to be able to drag a work package
and then for the others in the same project to follow suit. I used 5 just as
an example of the problem.

Is this now a job for VBA?

Rgds

Steve

 

[Ed Morrison]

Create a Start milestone and link all of the tasks to it. Changing the
start date of the milestone will change the start date of the tasks without
changing the duration. Of course this will only work if the resources are
available to work during the new duration.

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Ed Morrison
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[John]

Sorry there are actually 2000+ tasks group into projects which each have a
number of work packages in each. I want to be able to drag a work package
and then for the others in the same project to follow suit. I used 5 just as
an example of the problem.

Is this now a job for VBA?

Rgds

Steve,
I sounds like Ed has a fairly simple solution although it might require
a lot of milestones in your particular case. Nonetheless, is there any
reason why his approach won't work for you?

John
Project MVP