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 type of relationship between two activities.
Valid values are:
Finish to Start: The successor activity cannot start until its predecessor finishes.
Finish to Finish: The successor activity cannot finish until its predecessor finishes.
Start to Start: The successor activity cannot start until its predecessor starts.
Start to Finish: The successor activity cannot finish until its predecessor starts.
Lag Duration (hours) field
The time in hours between the start or finish of the activity and the start or finish of the predecessor successor.
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
- Click Projects.
- On the Projects navigation bar, click Activities.
- Click the Actions
menu and select Check Schedule. - In the Check Schedule dialog box select the Lags - Relationships with a positive lag duration option, then click Check Schedule.
- In the Schedule Check Report dialog box, expand the Lags - Relationships with a positive lag duration section.
- Click the Actions