Planning details - scheduling method
In the Planning details, you can select the schedule and scheduling method that must be applied to an activity definition when individual activities are created / updated on the planboard. The selected scheduling method determines how start dates of future activities are (re)calculated, for example when you change the start date-time of an activity or when you set its status to Completed.
The following scheduling methods can be selected:
• Variable - if you change the start date of an activity, the start and end dates of future activities scheduled for the activity definition are not affected.
• Fixed - if you change the start date of a single activity, the start dates of future activities are changed accordingly. So if, for example, you set its start date to two days earlier, the start dates of the following activities are also set back by two days.
• Fixed to completion - if you complete the activity or change the completion date of a selected activity, the start date of the next activities changes accordingly. For example, if you set its completion date to one month earlier, the start date of the next scheduled activity is also set back by one month.
You must first define the
Schedules that you require. Depending on the value of the field
Activity definition exclusive, the schedule is only valid for one activity definition, or can be reused by multiple activity definitions. See
Adding planning details for more information.