Updating Task's Finish Date

How do I update a task's finish date? A task in my project will not complete
on time. This task is Fixed Duration with 11 resources assigned. 9 of the
resources have completed their work, but two resources must continue for
another 16 - 24 hours each beyond the scheduled finish date.

When I attemp to change the finish date by 3 days, the Project is making
many strange changes to all resources remaining work. Also, I've noticed
Project changing the task to be 'fixed units'.

When you have multiple Resources on one Task, try this method:

Select Window, Split
Right mouse-click in the lower pane and select Resource Work
Set the Start date to the date the Task actually stated
Update Actual and Remaining Work for each Resource. When all remaining work
is zero, the Task is complete.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com



"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do I update a task's finish date? A task in my project will not
> complete
> on time. This task is Fixed Duration with 11 resources assigned. 9 of
> the
> resources have completed their work, but two resources must continue for
> another 16 - 24 hours each beyond the scheduled finish date.
>
> When I attemp to change the finish date by 3 days, the Project is making
> many strange changes to all resources remaining work. Also, I've noticed
> Project changing the task to be 'fixed units'.

Hi,

I like your expression "is making many strange changes"
You will now appreciate that in the courses I give I don't even try to
explain what can happen if you change the finish date of a task The message
is don't like in DO NOT.

Enter reality instead - you say it yourself:
two resources must continue for
> another 16 - 24 hours each beyond the scheduled finish date.

That is what you enter (Rod explained how) and LET PROJECT CALCULATE the
days.
Hope this helps,


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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
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"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15CD617B-2F28-432C-8D87-20360C2C16D1@microsoft.com...
> How do I update a task's finish date? A task in my project will not
> complete
> on time. This task is Fixed Duration with 11 resources assigned. 9 of
> the
> resources have completed their work, but two resources must continue for
> another 16 - 24 hours each beyond the scheduled finish date.
>
> When I attemp to change the finish date by 3 days, the Project is making
> many strange changes to all resources remaining work. Also, I've noticed
> Project changing the task to be 'fixed units'.