Scheduling/Leveling Report

Is there a way to remove the LOE's from the Scheduling/Leveling Report?
On the Activities without predecessors and Activities without successors part.
Edited by: user9059050 on Feb 15, 2010 11:38 AM

if you assign both/all activities (related start-to-start and finish-to-finish) to your LOE as logical predecessors (which they are), then your LOE will be reported as an open-end activity since it has no successors, which is normal.
if you want to avoid this, you can choose to assign finish-to-finish related activities as successors (which they are cronologically, but not from a strictly logical point of view, since they determine the LOE dates and not the other way around). regardless, P6 schedule will work just the same.
it's usually a good idea to clearly "code" your LOE's using significant ID's (activity codes don't show up in your schedule log) for easier detection in the schedule log. otherwise, the schedule log isn't half bad when checking your schedule for true open-ended activities.

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manav_purohit

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