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Configure planned start and end date in project task

pranjalsrvs
Tera Contributor

Hello community,

I want to edit this field "Planned start date" on Project task.

The planned start date of the second task must be one day after the planned end date of the first project task.

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alexankaras
ServiceNow Employee

You'd need to set-up a dependency. You need to do this from the project's planning page on the workspace (or the planning console if you're not using the workspace).

Open the "Planning Console" from the Related Links:

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The planning page will open (may not open in the workspace for you, but should open in a very similar interface - the concept is the same though). 

Use the gantt chart there, to drag a dependency from the finish of test 1 to the start of test 2. That should update the planned start date of task 2 automatically to always by 1 day after task 1:

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The task 2 date will move automatically if you move or extend task 1's planned end date. Also, if you click on the line, you can adjust a positive or negative value on the Lag field to adjust the difference between the end date of task 1 and start date of task 2 that you want the system to maintain automatically for that dependency.

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I'd highly suggest you go through the Project Management module of the Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) Fundamentals course in ServiceNow University (no need to follow the rest of the modules - you can just jump to the project one directly).

@alexankaras 

"Lag" field is not working if I update the number of days

 
 

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This is the Gantt image 

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 And this id the Edit dependency portion in planning console

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Thanks for the screenshots - I see that a lot of your tasks have a Time constraint set as "Start on specific date".  This takes precedence over dependencies - can you change the constraint to either "Start no earlier than" or "Start ASAP" for all of the tasks under Plan and your Build task?

That will make the start dates susceptible to change via dependencies - "Start on specific date" constraint is too restrictive for your use-case.