Period Warnings
- Anna Ciepłota
Introduction
Period warnings occur when rules of the task scheduling mode cannot be fulfilled - a parent task can not be recalculated due to a blocking task (such as a task in the “locked” mode), non-working day, or when you use the manual period mode.
The warning is displayed as a yellow box with a dashed-line frame and shows the position of the parent tasks calculated based on its children.
Period warnings do NOT apply to tasks without start/end dates (tasks without dates are ignored by period warnings).
Single date (start/end) is handled.
For more details, see the table below.
Case | Outcome |
|---|---|
The child task has no dates, and the parent has no dates | No period warning |
The child task has no dates, but its parent has dates | No period warning |
The child task only has a start date and this is within the parent dates | No period warning |
The child task only has a start date and this is before the parent starts | Period warning is displayed |
The child task only has a start date and this is after the parent ends | Period warning is displayed |
The child task only has an end date and this is within the parent dates | No period warning |
The child task only has an end date and this is before the parent starts | Period warning is displayed |
The child task only has an end date and this is after the parent ends | Period warning is displayed |
The parent has only one date | No period warning |
Showing period warnings
Period warnings are visible only in the Gantt module.
To display the warnings, click on View > Period warnings.
Rescheduling tasks manually
Parent tasks in manual mode can be manually rescheduled so the task period is calculated based on children tasks. To reschedule the task manually, click on the task to show the tasks' details and click Reschedule:
Bulk rescheduling
To fix all the warnings, switch to one of the auto-scheduling modes: Auto top-down or Auto bottom-up.