My file is old and TaskStart/TaskEnd were not working correctly with gantt charts.I removed the equations as Pierre instructed. I can now enter the start dates and end dates correctly. There are still problems.

 

>1. Enter a TLI. No dates.

OK

 

>2. Create a sub item with start date and end date. The gantt bar displays correctly and the TLI (summary bar) updates to reflect the total duration of its child. But, the TaskDuration field is blank for both the TLI and this sub item

 

Ok. Actually, here, if I don't enter a date first in the TLI, no summarry bar appears. I need to enter some arbitrary task act. start/end. Then it works

Apart from that : no problem with durations. I do have a row equation/function taking care of that value though.

I've got a "TaskDuration" field that might be customized since there's a personnal row equation/function in there : TaskDurationCalc(TaskActEnd,TaskActStart)

 

 

>3. Now enter another sub as a sibling of the first sub. Enter start and end dates. Now create a dependency from the first child to the second child (sibling). See? The task duration field becomes populated for the second child when the dependency is created.

>4. Optional but will underscore the point of this demonstration. Create more siblings with start and end dates and create dependencies. Again, the duration field is populated only after the dependencies are created.

 

 

I'm not experiencing this problem. Probably because of my own equations. I'm not always relying on the gantt's own equations since they were not all there a few years ago.

 

That could actually become more of a problem : users using their own equations while the underlying equations are changing without notice.

 

 

 

>5. Now refresh the grid and see what happens. For me, all the dependent items are gone and I am left with the TLI and the first child.

 

Do you mean that they,re actually gone from the grid (would be a filter problem)? Or links have disappeared ? Here, everything is fine

 

disclaimer : still using v30