Schedules and tasks
Move tasks and shift dates
Drag a task on the Calendar or Timeline, or select tasks and use Shift dates to move them a number of workdays. Tasks that wait for them are pushed later when needed, and every move can be undone. Days count Monday to Friday.
Ways to move work
- Drag a bar on the Timeline or a task on the Calendar. Drag a bar's end to change how long it takes. On a phone, turn on Edit schedule in the Timeline first.
- Keyboard: in the Calendar or Timeline, select a task, then Alt+←/→ moves it one workday and Alt+Shift+←/→ finishes it a workday earlier or later.
- Several tasks: select them (or press X on each), choose Shift dates in the bar that appears, set the workdays, and leave Also move tasks that wait for these on.
- One task: Shift dates… in the task's … menu.
- A whole project: on Projects › Timeline, open the project's … menu and choose Shift schedule…. It moves every open task.
What moves with it
- Tasks that wait for the moved task are pushed just enough to keep their links. Durations stay the same.
- Moving a task earlier never pulls later tasks earlier.
- Done tasks never move.
- On commercial projects you choose Push them too or Just this one. Moving a task on the critical path asks for a reason.
Every day count uses workdays, Monday to Friday. There's no setting for holidays or rain days yet, so shift the affected tasks yourself.
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- Why is a task late or at risk?A task is Late when it isn't done and its finish date has passed. It's At risk when it's blocked, has started but is 25 or more points behind where it should be, or its start date has passed and it hasn't started. Days are counted in workdays.
- Save a baseline and compare plansA baseline is a saved copy of every task's dates. On commercial projects, open the Gantt and choose Baseline › Save baseline…; the Gantt then shows the planned dates next to today's. Homes keep their first plan automatically as the Original plan.
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