I recently asked the question about P6: “How does one show a milestone’s date to reflect the earliest start date of the group predecessors’ activities rather than total float driving from the group predecessors’ activities.”
After I little bit of thought I devised the following solution.
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To show the earliest Start Date and Latest Finish date of multiple predecessors for a Milestone you need to make the Milestone Task a LOE and hook up to all the predecessor tasks with both a FS and a FF link as per the picture below:
If you want to show other LOE activities as a LOE then you will need to create an Activity Code for normal LOE activities and Milestone LOE activities and a bar style for both and apply the filter to the two LOE bar styles in the Bars form.
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