Edit From and To Dates
You may or may not want Maconomy to control the start and end dates on events such as projects, tasks, and milestones in the RO.
You can edit the From and To dates for such events in the RO Project area (at the top of the RO).
You can easily adjust the start and end dates by dragging the tips of the relevant Gantt sticks. Alternately, you can move entire blocks forward or backward in time by dragging on the body or dates in the Gantt sticks to change the dates. When you adjust the dates, the cell bookings under the event are automatically refreshed to match the new start and/or end dates. However, note that this feature does not support resizing milestones or summary lines.
Adjusting dates using the drag-and-drop functionality behaves differently, depending on the Project Start and Finish calculation on imported projects setting in the Admin tool. This setting controls whether dependencies between a project and its child events and dependencies between main and subprojects should be enforced.
- When you drag and drop the dates of the project, all of its children (tasks/summary/subprojects) follow the adjusted dates.
- Children dictate the start and finish dates of the projects when dragged and dropped.
- All of the main parent project's children (including subprojects) is always within the project duration.
- The functionality is the same as that of the Automatic setting, with the exception that subprojects do NOT follow or dictate the start and finish dates of the main parent project.
- You can have subprojects with dates that are outside of the main parent project duration.
- When you drag and drop dates for the main project, none of its children will follow the adjusted dates.
- You can have tasks with dates that are outside of the main parent project duration.
To edit an event’s From or To date: