From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training
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Identify schedule issues with Task Inspector
From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training
Identify schedule issues with Task Inspector
- [Narrator] The Task Inspector helps you see factors that affect a task's start date along with any issues you might need to resolve. Well, let's start by taking a look at the task 'Review requirements and budget'. If you look at the 'Finish' cell, you can see that there's a red, squiggly line underneath the date. Now, if you point at that, you'll see a message: 'Potential scheduling problem'. Right-click to see options. Well, I'm gonna right-click the task. On the shortcut menu, there are three things up at the top. 'Fix in Task Inspector', 'Respect links', and 'Ignore problems for this task'. If you don't care about this potential scheduling problem, you can choose 'Ignore problems for this task'. But in this case, I want to go to the Task Inspector, so I'm going to click 'Fix in Task Inspector'. That opens up the 'Inspector' pane on the left side of the window. By the way, the other way to get to the Task Inspector is to go to the 'Task' tab and then in the 'Tasks' section, click…
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