Re: Critical Path breaks when linking two tasks with different calendars

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Steve and Gerard,

Thanks for the help. I understand that the Paint Walls task now has
slack and, therefore, is no longer on the critical path. I intented my
comment about the critical path "breaking" to mean that the CP that
Project calculates is no longer valid--it starts after the Paint Trim
task--because it does not reflect the path with the longest project
duration. It appears as a segment of a longer path.

Perhaps my comments about adding the dummy task was misleading. I
don't want to force a specific critical path by including the dummy
task. I used it only to troubleshoot the problem.

The problem I am asking for help is...If all paths in my project
originate and terminate with Start and Finish tasks, respectively, I
should have a critical path beginning at Start and ending at Finish,
which indicates the path of longest duration. However, I have a
three-task path, hanging like an orphan on the end of an existing path.
Why does this happen? My initial post asked if this was the result of
using the different calendars.

One more thing: I certainly did not suggest that this was a bug in
Project. I simply wanted to know how to accomplish something according
to the way Project is designed.

Regards,
Keith O'Connor

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