This topic describes the Cleanse Schedule dialog box fields.
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| Redundant Logic
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Lower redundancy Index to zero by removing unnecessary (redundant) links.
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| Hard Constraints
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Removes all hard constraints (Mandatory Start, Mandatory Finish, Must Start On and Must Finish On) from the schedule.
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| Soft Constraints
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Remove all soft constraints (Finish On or After, Finish On or Before, Start On or After, Start On or Before, As Late As Possible) from the schedule.
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| Remaining Leads
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Removal of negative lags (leads) from the schedule. This results in a more realistic forecast.
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| Remaining Lags
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Elimination of positive durations on relationships. Achieve this either by removing the lags or converting the lags to activities.
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| Links to Summaries
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This feature converts relationships that involve summary activities into equivalent relationships by connecting only non-summary activities. This is helpful because only "real" work in the schedule has relationships and summary activities can potentially be removed.
- If the predecessor is a summary, then:
- Acumen searches within the WBS in which the summary predecessor is located for activities that have no successors within that WBS.
- The same type of relationships between these group of activities and the successor activity of the original link are created.
- The original link is removed.
- If the successor is a summary, then:
- Acumen searches within the WBS in which the summary successor is located for activities that have no predecessors within that WBS.
- The same type of relationships between these group of activities and the predecessor activity of the original link are created.
- The original link is removed.
- If both the predecessor and successor are summaries, then the above steps are combined.
If a relationship of the same type is already being created, then the existing relationship is kept and its lag is updated if the newer lag is bigger.
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