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Schedule Subnets

Subnets are a set of project tasks that have dependencies among themselves, or a single task with no dependencies. During Autoschedule, you can choose to calculate and display separate critical paths for each subnet and for each task that does not have dependencies. Otherwise, only one critical path, the longest path, is calculated for the project.

There are several key benefits to scheduling subnets:

• If you are working with a master project that contains multiple projects, you can calculate and display the critical path of each subproject and not just the longest critical path.
• If you are working with a project where you have structured the work breakdown structure to support multiple concurrent critical paths, you can display all critical paths.
• If you have a project that contains management tasks that span the project's life, you can display the management tasks and the true critical path.

To schedule subnets during Autoschedule

1. Open the project.

   The Project: Properties: Main - General page appears.

2. Select Schedule from the content menu.

   The Project: Properties: Main - Schedule page appears.

3. Click Autoschedule from the Schedule toolbar.

   The Autoschedule page appears.

4. Select the Subnets check box, and click Autoschedule.

   Your project is set up to calculate separate critical paths and separate critical paths are calculated for your project.