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Switch date constraints

Switch date constraints

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Switch date constraints

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- [Bonnie] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore. Suppose you want to change the types of day constraints assigned to tasks. Here's a fast way to do that. So in this project, I've set this project up to be scheduled from the finish date. If I go to the project tab and click project information, you can see that schedule from is set to project finish date. I'm going to click cancel to close that dialog box. Now if I insert constraint type into the table, I'm going to right-click the heading for duration and choose insert column, and then choose constraint type. You can see that all of the tasks are set to as late as possible. Well, let's go back to the project tab and click project information. And I'm going to change the schedule from to project start date and then click OK. When I do that, that changes the constraint type for all of the summary tasks to as soon as possible. But all the sub tasks are still set to as late as possible. And that's pretty annoying. So let's go ahead and find an easy way…

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