wrong start date shown

[ngs1]

I have a task that is showing a start date of saturday, when the work
actually doesn't start until sunday - the resources were overallocated for
the saturday so I had to shift the work to sunday. In the resource usage
view the task is showing 0 hours for the saturday instead of being blank
which is presumably why the start date is showing for the saturday. The
duration field is correctly showing 4 hours even the start date is saturday
and the end date is sunday.

I presume it is calculating the start date based on the end of the
predecessor task and ignoring the resource constraint. How can I have the
scheduler automatically show the date tasks like this actually start?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

The task has a Must Start On constraint or an Actual Start oin Saturday.
Start is NOT defined by predecessors.
HTH

 

[ngs1]

The task is set to 'as soon as possible'

Any other ideas?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Does it have an Actual Start date?

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

When you said you "had to shift the work to sunday" exactly how did you go
about it - what did you enter in what field in which view? Did you manually
enter a date or work hours somewhere or did you use Project's built-in
resource leveling tools? What is the task type setting for the task in
question?