Re: [taskjuggler] dumb question about my first project

From: Michael Pilling (pilling_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 14:41:05 CET 

Message-ID: <41FF86F1.4090300@tpg.com.au>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:41:05 +1100
From: Michael Pilling <pilling@tpg.com.au>
Subject: Re: [taskjuggler] dumb question about my first project

Creating a milestone task called start and creating dependancies to it
for all tasks
without depencdancies fixed it.

Thanks!

Michael

Chris Schlaeger wrote:

>On Saturday 29 January 2005 23:30, Michael Pilling wrote:
>
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I'm trying out task juggler for the first time, as I'd rather not use
>>any Micro$oft stuff
>>in our new company.
>>
>>I copied the first project example and substituted my own tasks and
>>resources for those in the example.
>>
>>Generally, it seems to have gone well except I get heaps of errors, all
>>of the same type.
>>
>>e.g.
>>Task 'startyap.edit1' needs a start specification to be scheduled in
>>ASAP mode in the 'plan' scenario.
>>Task 'startyap.edit1' has no start time for the 'plan' scenario.
>>
>>
>
>Tasks can be scheduled from start to end (ASAP mode) or from end to start
>(ALAP mode). TJ tries to guess the intended mode from the specifications you
>have made or you can state the mode explicitely with 'scheduling'.
>
>Specifying 'start' or 'depends' switches to ASAP mode, 'end' and 'precedes'
>switch to ALAP mode. The last specification determines the mode!
>
>An ASAP tasks needs to have some criteria that determines the start of the
>tasks. This can be either a fixed date (start) or a dependency (depends). It
>also needs a duration criteria (milestone, duration, length, effort) or a
>fixed end.
>
>An ALAP tasks needs to have a criteria that determines the end of the tasks.
>This can either be a fixed date (end) or a dependency (precedes). Again it
>also needs a duration criteria.
>
>My guess is that startyap.edit1 does not have a specification of the start but
>got somehow switched to ASAP mode.
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>>I've gone through the FirstProject example and compared it to mine and
>>cannot see why mine would
>>not have a start time and the FirstProject does.
>>
>>My task schedule is longer but simpler than the FirstProject example
>>with all tasks being children of
>>the main task, but no further nesting below that.
>>
>>I'm purely using the .tpj file and taskjuggler at the moment, not trying
>>to use any IDE.
>>Any idea what the very obvious thing I am missing is?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>
>
>
> 

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