Summarizing reoccuring tasks

[JeffD]

I have several machines that follow the same cadence of tasks. I'd like to
summarize one of those tasks for all the different machines as a summary task
at the top of my schedule. I thought there was a way of using a Start to
Finish relationship but i could be wrong. thanks.
Jeff

 

[JeffD]

Specifically, if all the machines followed a Design, Build, Test cadence and
I wanted
to have a task at the top of the schedule that summarized all the "builds"
to show the earliest start and latest finish for all the machines, how would
I set that up?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

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[JeffD]

I don't want to group the entire file, I just want one task at the top of my
plan to represent a summary of several individual subtasks.

thanks again.

 

[DavidC]

Hi Jeff,

If I understand you correctly, you have a number of tasks that represent the
sequence of tasks involved with say, 'Builds'. The easy way is to simply
have those tasks directly following a line item called "Builds" and then
indent those tasks and this then creates "builds" as a summary task.

If the sequence of tasks that make up the period you want to summarise as
"Bulds" are not sequnetial in the list, then there is a way to create a
"task" called a "Hammock". For this you simply copy the start date from the
first task making up the sequence needed for the summary, and "Paste
Special"/"Paste Link" into the start date for the line item called "Builds",
and do the same thing for the finish date obviously using the finish date for
the last task in the sequence you need to summarise as "Builds". This will
then automatically set the duration for the "Builds" task.

This system is very fragile and is fraught with problems, but it does work
well.

Hope this helps a little.


Regards

DavidC