Start ASAP vs Specific Date on Project Import

[Uncle Rob]

From Docs article on project import....

"Time constraints: The Project Management application Start ASAP and Start on specific date constraints. The application sets the time constraint for imported tasks to Start on specific date if their Microsoft Project time constraint is Must Start On. All other imported Microsoft Project time constraints are set to Start ASAP."

Is this legacy, or still reliable?  I'm importing MPPs from MSProject and all the "As Soon As Possible" entries are coming into SN as "Start on Specific Date".  I *should* expect these to be Start ASAP, right?

[danielwolf]

Hello @Robert Fedoruk

did you apply any workaround for this issue?

Thanks in advance!

Daniel

[Uncle Rob]

Yeah I did.  It was SUPER sketchy, and risky, and actually caused a couple issues.  I was lucky enough that the stakeholder fully understood fixing a handful project tasks was better than combing hundreds of them.

If you want to talk shop about it, hit me up rdfedoruk at gmail dot the usual.

[LB8]

Any updates on when this will be fixed? This is a big issue.

[Noah Drew]

Hi LB!

Currently, this is the expected behavior since PPM does not support all of the Time Constraints that MS Project uses. We set all of the Project Tasks to "Start on specific date" so that all of your Project Task Start and End Dates are what they were in MS Project. If we imported with Start ASAP, there would likely be date discrepancies between the two.

This behavior change has been requested a lot. I would recommend adding an Idea to the Idea Portal if there is not one already or upvoting any existing one for our Product Team to know the necessity for this functionality.

Hope that helps!

Please mark as Helpful if it does, thanks!

[Lilly Souksamla]

We are actively working on this experience post-Orlando.