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Setting task date constraints - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project 2013 Essential Training
Setting task date constraints
One of Project's important benefits is its ability to calculate the schedule. But sometimes tasks need to occur on specific dates or have other kinds of date restrictions. While manually scheduled tasks let you set task's Start and Finish dates, Date Constraints are another Project feature that let you set task dates with degrees of flexibility, like a task that can start no earlier or later than a specific date. The Task Details Form is the best place to work on Date Constraints. We can see in this view, the Task Form is in the Details pane. But it's easy to change that. On the VIEW tab, go to Split View section and click the down arrow in the Details box, then choose More Views. In the More Views dialog box, find Task Details Form, select it and click Apply. And now you can see that there is a box for the Constraint type, and the Date. Well actually this Constraint type shows you something, which is that every single task has a type of date constraint, but in this case Pack office…
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