Autoschedule › Schedule Subnets

Schedule Subnets

Use the following procedure to set up your project to calculate separate critical paths. Subnets are a set of project tasks that have dependencies among themselves, or a single task with no dependencies. During autoschedule, you can 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.

Scheduling subnets has several key benefits:

• If you are working with a master project that contains multiple projects, you can calculate and display the critical path of each subproject, not only 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 life, you can display the management tasks and the true critical path.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the project and click Tasks.

   The list page appears.

2. Open the Tasks menu and click Gantt.

   The Gantt view appears.

3. Click the down arrow for the Autoschedule With Options icon in the Gantt view.

   The autoschedule page appears.

4. Complete the following field:

   Subnets

   Specifies to autoschedule to calculate the critical path for the entire project. When the field is selected, a separate critical path is calculated for each subnet.

   Default: Cleared

   Select the check box.

5. Click Autoschedule.