Lags - Relationships with a Positive Lag Duration Section of the Schedule Check Report Dialog Box

Overview

Use this section to identify relationships with positive lags. Lags are a scheduled delay between activities. It is important to identify lags in the schedule as they can manipulate float and constrain a schedule. You can replace a lag with a task to avoid the problems that lags can create.

Only a subset of all the internal and external links in the open projects are checked. Any links between activities that both have actual finish dates are removed from the subset to create the list of links checked for positive lag. The Actual percentage is calculated as the number of links found that match the check divided by the total number of subset links checked.

Screen Elements

Predecessor Project ID field

The identifying code for the project containing the predecessor activity that failed the check.

Predecessor Activity ID field

The identifying code for the predecessor activity that failed the check.

Predecessor Activity Description field

The brief description of the predecessor activity.

Relationship Type field

  • The relationship between two activities. See About Relationships for more information on relationship types.

Lag Duration (hours) field

The number of hours of lag duration.

Successor Project ID field

The identifying code of the project that contains the successor activity.

Successor Activity ID field

The identifying code of the successor activity.

Successor Activity Description field

The brief description of the successor activity.

Getting Here

  1. Click "" Projects.
  2. On the Projects navigation bar, click "" Activities.
  3. On the Activities page, click the Actions menu and select Run "" "" Check Schedule....
  4. In the Check Schedule dialog box:
    1. Select the Lags - Relationships with a positive lag duration option.
    2. Click Check Schedule.
  5. In the Schedule Check Report dialog box, expand the Lags - Relationships with a positive lag duration section.

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