Tasks may depend on other tasks. This means, Task B must start not before Task A was finished, with a certain delay. Shifting Task A forward will shift Task B right after the end of Task A.
Drag and drop a task on another task to add a new dependency or to remove an existing dependency. The dependency is shown as a relation line with an arrow to the depending task.
Double-Click on the depending task to edit more options for the dependency.
Dependency Types
There are four types of task dependencies:
| End-Start | Task B must start right after Task A ends. |
| Start-Start | Task B must start right after Task A starts. |
| End-End | Task B must end right after Task A ends. |
| Start-End | Task B must end right after Task A starts. |
A task can depend on different other tasks. Circular references are not allowed, the program will check for this.
When you want a dependency to be displayed with an arrow, but without moving the task automatically, set the Relation-Mode to Soft.
Delay
Tasks can depend on other tasks with a certain delay (in days or hours).
E.g.: Task B must not start earlier than one day after Task A was finished,
enter 1d for the delay. The program auto-detects the
Duration-Type of this delay.
ProjectPlanner 2014 also supports negative delays. Select Direction=Backwards for negative delays.