Feature Request: Lead Time from Inherited Parent Dates

[Civil]

I believe it could be reasonable to enable lead time for inherited
parent dates. This small change should allow much more project
planning felxibility to MLO.

For example you have simple two-step project
Project (due 17.10.09)
I_____Task 1 (inherited 17.10.09)
I_____Task 2 (inherited 17.10.09)

When planning the project you realise that you need to start Task 1
five days before the project deadline, and Task 2 three days before
the project deadline. You set the resepctive deadlines for tasks 1 and
2.

Project (due 17.10.09)
I_____Task 1 (manually set 17.10.09 - minus 5 days lead time)
I_____Task 2 (manually set 17.10.09 - minus 3 days lead time)

Furhter, if the deadline for the project changes, you need to reset
deadlines for each task again. This will be really ineficient for a
normal multi-task project. If we added the proposed feature the
picture will look as follows:

Project (due 20.10.09)
I_____Task 1 (automatically set 15.10.09 [5 days lead time])
I_____Task 2 (automatically set 17.10.09 [3 days lead time])

Please comment if U agree.

Kind regards,
Dmitry

[Richard Collings]

+1 Something like this would be good. Or as somebody else suggested a
while back, if I remember correctly allowing a dependency to specify a lead
or lag (although that might work slightly differently, I guess).

[Globi]

There are news? Could anyone solve the problem?

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Globi.

There are several different requests in this thread, and it depends which one you want. 

Richard C. about four years ago requested "allowing a dependency to specify a lead or lag". I hope that's what you wanted too, because "delayed dependencies" were implemented in the most recent version of MLO.

Civil requested lead time for inherited parent dates. I think you have to just do this manually, or write up a feature request and post it in mlo.uservoice.com

[Globi]

Thanks for the reply. I describe the problem.
I have a task with an end date. To accomplish this task are some tasks to complete before. As an example, 10 weeks before the end date must be ordered something. Now changes the end date must be manually changed all the sub task. Lead time for inherited parent dates would be a solution. Any other ideas?

[Dwight]

My best idea would be to use a template. When you create a new project from a template, MLO adjusts all of the dates so that the project starts today (the day that you create it) and each task’s duration stays unchanged. See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/YWlm-1XWRyo/9T8LJX0SKtsJ for some hints on using templates. This will only work if you can predict the duration of each task when the project starts – there will be no recalculating dates mid-project when something takes longer or shorter than expected. When MLO recalculates dates, every day is the same as every other – there is no accommodating for holidays, vacations or even weekends. Also, I understand that you would like to begin from a fixed end date and calculate back to the start, MLO  begins from the start date and calculates when it will finish, but there are some hints on how to get MLO to help you pick a start date. If these are serious problems for you, you should use project management software like Microsoft Project that have all of these issues solved. Project management software is much more complex to learn and also much more expensive. MLO is not really a full blown project manager, it is more of a personal task manager.

 

If you would like me to send you step by step instructions for setting up a template, picking a start date, and creating a new project based on the template please let me know.

-Dwight

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[Gustav Wikström]

Although I'm quite late to the party, I have to agree with Civil regarding the presented feature request. Having a lead time on the inherited date seems very valuable to me! Especially for working with templates and more advanced recurring hierarchies of tasks.

So a +1 and a bump up from the archives on this one!

Thanks for the software, keep up the good work! And hi to all fellow MLO-users reading this and supporting the developers with funding :-)

BR
Gustav