Floating Deadlines in MS Project

[hehuis]

Is there a feature in MS Project 2003 that would allow me to create deadlines or constraints that are dependant on the completion of other tasks, not date specific?

Exp...I must send out a notice to proceed 180 days after the pre-constuction contract has been signed. I want to be able to move the contract signing date and have the NTP move as well. Thereby floating the deadline to match.

Thanks

 

[tygerdawg]

sound like a milestone (not deadline) task (0 duration) that is linked via timing constraints to other tasks. As the other tasks move, so will the milestone task.

TygerDawg

 

[IRstuff]

That's what the predessor column is for

Say your Contract Signing is on line 1. The predessor for the NTP line would then be something 1FS+180, which means line 1 finish to start of this line + 180 days. Since contract signing is usually a milestone with zero duration, as might be the NTP, 1SS+180, 1FF+180, 1FS+180 would all result in the same thing.

TTFN

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[hehuis]

Thanks TygerDawg

Your suggestion seems to have cleared my issue up. I appreciate it.