On a milestone what does the checkbox "allow dates outside schedule" mean or do?

[Kim48]

On a project milestone task, what does the checkbox "allow dates outside schedule" mean or do?  Our thought was that you could have the data of the milestone beyond the project end date, but it changes the end date to the date we put on the milestone.  We are using Kingston.  Thanks!

[Brian Gadeberg · Accepted solution]

Hi Kim,

All project dates needs to be within the start and end date. The allow outside schedule" means you can place the Milestone on any day within start and end date regardless of the related schedule. 

SNC DOCS: Task Outside Schedule

Allow dates outside schedule

Indicates whether the project task is set to start and end on a non-schedule day (outside regular project schedule) such as on a weekend. An off-schedule task can start any time during the day and on any day of the week. For example, if you use the project schedule Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm and a project task of duration 2 days should start on Saturday, then an off-schedule task is allowed to be scheduled on Saturday and end on Sunday. Similarly, if a task of duration 3 days starts on Friday, then an off-schedule will end on Sunday as opposed to ending on Tuesday. The option is not enabled for a parent task. The value of this field on the parent task is derived from the child tasks. Note: There is no difference between an off-schedule and on-schedule task if there is no schedule defined at the project. 1 day is 8 hours for a task in regular schedule and 24 hours for a task outside schedule.

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Regards,

Brian

[Kim48]

Hi Brian - thank you for your quick response.  That answers my question!  Thanks again, Kim