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n  As Soon As Possible – Sets the start date of your task as soon as possible without preceding the project start date.

n  Finish No Earlier Than – Sets the finish date of your task to the specified date or later.

n  Finish No Later Than – Sets the finish date of your task to the specified date or earlier.

n  Must Finish On – Sets the finish date of your task to the specified date.

n  Must Start On – Sets the start date of your task to the specified date.

n  Start No Earlier Than – Sets the start date of your task to the specified date or later.

n  Start No Later Than – Sets the start date of your task to the specified date or earlier.

Actual Start – Denotes the actual start date and time of a task. If this date exists for a task, the task is scheduled to start at that time and Microsoft Project is limited in the scheduling of work for that task.

Outline Level – Tasks that are sub-tasks (or child tasks) to summary tasks (or parent tasks) are limited in how they are scheduled.

Deadline Date – Unlike FNLT, the deadline date is not used when calculating the schedule. However, it does affect the late finish date of a task and thus its slack. An indicator is displayed if a task is scheduled beyond its deadline date.

Task Type – Tasks innately have three interrelated variables: Duration, Units, and Work. A change in one of these affects the other two variables. In order to predict the change to these variables, Microsoft Project allows you to fix one of the variables. This allows you to change a second variable and predict the change in the third. Tasks types are merely the fixing of one of the three variables. The three types of tasks and the way a change effects that task are shown in the table below:

Field that you change

Field Calculated if the task is Fixed Duration

Field Calculated if the task is Fixed Units

Field Calculated if the task is Fixed Work

Work

Units are recalculated

Duration is recalculated

Duration is recalculated

Duration

Work is recalculated

Work is recalculated

Units are recalculated

Units

Work is recalculated

Duration is recalculated

Units are recalculated

Effort Driven – The effort driven setting specifies for Microsoft Project to keep the total task remaining work value at its current value as resources are assigned or removed from the task. Effort driven has no impact unless a task has remaining work greater than zero.

Percent Complete – Percent Complete specifies the amount a task that has been completed. Giving a task a percent complete value automatically gives it an actual start date. Thus they behave similarly. (See also Updating Task Status Updates Resource Status.)

Time-phased Edits – Tasks may be manually edited on a time-phased basis. These edits directly impact the schedule of a task. Sometimes these edits are not readily seen because of the timescale settings in the Task Usage or Resource Usage view.

Priority – Affects the order that tasks are leveled in. Settings can be from 0 to 1000 with 1000 being the higher priority task.  The setting of 1000 also implies “Do Not Level.”

Leveling Delay – This field shows how much time a task is delayed over its regularly scheduled start. This value may be changed when a project is leveled or may be changed manually.

Resources

Resource Type – Microsoft Project 2000 includes both material and working resources. Material resources behave differently than working resources. For example, effort driven settings have no effect as material resources are added or removed from a task. Because material resources act differently than working resources, users may not get the behavior they expect as they assign or remove tasks. Material Resources are covered in more detail later in this course.