Tasks STILL splitting

[K Major]

I reviewed the numerous posts on the topic of preventing tasks from splitting
and thought I had the answer, but I still have certain tasks splitting (that
I don't want to).

I have a task that is a one-time "approval" meeting. It is fixed duration
non-effort driven. 3 resources are assigned. The "leveling can split" field
on this task is set to "no". I do have the default under tools, options,
"split in-progress tasks" checked.

Here's my problem - The 1st resource is available on 3/18. The next
available date for the other 2 is 3/25 (they are out of the office until this
time). MSP splits the task and in the task usage view you can see that R#1
is 3/18 to 3/18 and R#2 and R#3 are 3/25 to 3/25. The overal duration is
then of course listed as 3/18 to 3/25. I would have assumed that it would
have scheduled the meeting on 3/25 (i.e. 1st time all resources are
available). Bottomline, it still split the task.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Kevin

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Kevin,

Very unfortunate isn't it?
I have been requesting to change this for ages, but as yet to no avail.
For my customers who absolutely wanted to avoid this I developped a
workaround, it is described in the article on MS project on my Website.
It has also been published in the latest Office Newsletter.
Hope this helps,

 

[Haixiang]

Microsoft should provide some options on how resources will be used.
In primavera, I can set whether a resource is driving or not to a task.
Further more,I can set task type as "Meeting Task", "Meeting Task" works
when all driving resources are availble.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Haixiang ,

Microsoft are seldom active in these newsgroups, so why not tell Microsoft
directly at this site: http://tinyurl.com/6oaw3


Mike Glen
MS Project MVP