You can specify scheduling criteria and begin scheduling tasks using Autoschedule using the Autoschedule page. You can autoschedule an entire project or only tasks that occur between ranges of dates. Use this page to specify the deviations from the current schedule and automatically create a new tentative schedule.
To define autoschedule parameters and autoschedule a project
The Project: Properties: Main - General page appears.
The Project: Properties: Main - Schedule page appears.
The Autoschedule page appears.
Defines the date from which to begin scheduling tasks. Click the Select Date icon to select another date.
Note: If you are scheduling from the finish date, enter the date on or before which you want to begin scheduling tasks. If the project has not yet started, enter the project's start date. If the project is already in progress, enter the first day after the last timesheet posting date.
Defines the date before which you want tasks to be excluded.
Example: If you enter 7/3/08 as the Ignore Tasks Starting Before date, and you have a task that starts on 6/20/08, this task will be excluded from the schedule.
Defines the date after which you want tasks to be excluded.
Example: If you enter 7/3/08 as the Ignore Tasks Starting After date, and you have a task that starts on 8/14/08, this task will be excluded from the schedule.
Enter or select a date in this field if you want CA Clarity PPM to exclude all tasks that start after this date.
Specifies whether or not you want Autoschedule to consider resource availability when scheduling the project.
Default: Selected
Note: If you clear this check box, Autoschedule treats resources as if they have unlimited availability. Each task is scheduled against the resources total availability, not against the resources remaining availability which takes other task assignments into consideration. This results in the shortest possible schedule, but it can also cause resources to be overcommitted.
Specify whether you want Autoschedule to perform a backwards schedule from a defined deadline date. Use this option if you need the last task to complete by the project's finish date.
Default: Cleared
Note: If you choose to schedule from the finish date, then enter the finish date into the Autoschedule Date field.
Specifies whether you want Autoschedule to calculate the critical path for the entire project. When this field is checked, a separate critical path is calculated for each subnet.
Default: Cleared
Select this field to autoschedule the remaining work on this task according to its normal autoschedule logic, including any task constraints and dependencies. Leave this field clear to ignore the task during autoscheduling.
Default: Cleared
Specifies whether you want to allow changes to excluded task resource assignment dates during autoscheduling, as long as the new dates stay within the task's start and finish dates.
Default: Cleared
Note: This field works in conjunction with the Exclude from Autoscheduling field on the Task Properties page.
Specifies whether you want Autoschedule to start successor tasks with zero lag the day after the predecessor task finishes. When cleared, successor tasks start the same day as the predecessor task finishes as long as the resource has availability left.
Default: Cleared
Specifies whether you want to automatically publish the changes made in the tentative schedule to the plan of record (or the current plan). When selected, the tentative plan is deleted and the project is unlocked.
Default: Cleared
A temporary Project: Tasks: Task Resource Utilization page appears while the autoscheduling is in process.
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