Tyler if this can help you, I can admit that:
- The schedule (as Anurag says) plays an important role in sync the project dates (try to apply it in any project or at least know which schedule a specific project uses!)
In the schedule (Project Management Schedule or whatever you use for projects) make sure you define correctly working days and holidays. I had problems when I introduced another new holiday in the schedule.
Try to use the same schedule for projects tasks (or control project tasks Time Constraint to let them start when you plan: Start on specific date).
- Be careful to fully understand the roll up between planned dates, actual dates and project task status (I had problem with projects old start and end dates)
I made a schema to have a clear view of how they move. If you start the project task (put status I work in progress), its actual start date registers the actual date of doing so and then the planned end date becomes read only and is changed automatically in the future - if the project task planned start date was in the past (it depends from the delay). I mean there are calculations made when you change project task status.
Although, when I discovered all these points, I had to initialize the whole projects task dates and now the dates are shown correctly everywhere.
Hope this is useful to you. Otherwise let me know!
Bye,
Skender
