I would like the start date of a dependent task to start the next day, even if the predecessor task finishes a little early the previous day. Unfortunately the successor task always starts (assuming an FS dependency) immediately after the predecessor task.
In this example, even if Task 3 finishes on Jan 2 at 12:00 PM, I do not wish for the Client review task to start on Jan 2, instead to start the starting (8:00 AM) of the following day. Is there a way I can force this?
Thanks, Sean
There is no way to do this in MSP. The nearest your can get, assuming for example that all your tasks are <1 day in length, is to make the second task a predecessor of the first using a start-start relationship with a lag of 1d. In effective this says "start the second task one day later than the start of the first task, no matter on which day Task 1 starts...
But that is unlikely to be useful as if Task 1 starts a 10:30 on Day 1, Task 2 will start at 10:30 on Day 2, not 09:00 on Day 2.
Or you can muck around with Start No Earlier than constraints on all the subsequent tasks, but that is going to be a PITA for anything more than one instance.
Just change the Hours per Day to be 9 hours in Change Working Time -> Options.
So that you don't have any breaks and match start and end time.
Add an appropriate amount of elapsed time to the predecessor link. In your example, Client Review Task's predecessor can be "3FS+8eh" Assuming there are 8 working hours per day in the project plan, adding 8 elapsed hours to the driving predecessor link will push the task to the start of the next working day.
