{"id":1102,"date":"2019-08-13T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:54:46","slug":"trap-must-finish-by-constraint-at-00h-00m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/2019\/08\/13\/trap-must-finish-by-constraint-at-00h-00m\/","title":{"rendered":"Trap: “Must Finish By” constraint at 00H: 00M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If in the User Preference window, the Dates-> Time option is set to \u201cDo not show time\u201d, then P6\u2019s schedule calculation of Total Float values could be incorrectly calculated when a date is entered in the Project \u2013> Schedule Date \u2013> Must Finish By textbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When time is not shown and a date is entered in the Must Finish by textbox, the time stored by default is:  00H: 00M. This means that the date shown will not be considered during P6\u2019s schedule calculations during the backward pass. This oversight causes every Total Float value to be 1 day less than the correct Total Float value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the illustration below, the \u201cAnalysis\nCharts 1 of 2\u201d reports 4 activities with negative float even though the \u201cMust\nFinish By\u201d date matches the Contract Completion Milestone in the schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Z\u00fcmmer\u2019s Analysis Charts, Analysis Statistics and Project Settings reports provide the red alert message “Possible Bad Planned End Date – Check Planned End Date Hours<\/strong>” under the Planned End box when the \u201cMust Finish By\u201d constraint date contains \u201c00H: 00M\u201d as the time value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When this situation occurs, first return to the User Preferences window then change the Time option setting to either “12 Hour (1:30 PM)” or “24 Hour (13:30)”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, return to the Projects-> Dates option. the “Must Finish By” option will now show with the Hours, Minutes as “00:00”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then change the hours and minutes setting to reflect the ending hour and minutes settings for the Project (typically 17:00\/5:00 PM or 16:00\/4:00 PM) as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lastly, recalculate the Project as normal. The resulting Total Float values will now correctly include the Finish date during the backward pass process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a92019 FoxQuest Systems, Inc. – All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If in the User Preference window, the Dates-> Time option is set to \u201cDo not show time\u201d, then P6\u2019s schedule calculation of Total Float values could be incorrectly calculated when a date is entered in the Project \u2013> Schedule Date \u2013> Must Finish By textbox. When time is not shown and a date is entered … Continue reading “Trap: “Must Finish By” constraint at 00H: 00M”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/T162-Selected-List-Project-Settings-Bad-Planned-End-Date.jpg?fit=832%2C466&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}