Overview
Use this section to view activities with hard constraints. Hard constraints override logical relationships and thereby prevent activities from being scheduled according to the logic. Hard constraints should only be used when they reflect real dates. Examples of hard constraints are Mandatory Start and Mandatory Finish. If possible, replace hard constraints with logical relationships.
Only a subset of all the activities in the open projects are checked. WBS summary activities, activities with an actual finish date, and Level of Effort activities are removed from the subset to create a list of activities that are checked for Hard Constraints. Start constraints are ignored if they are on activities that have an actual start. The Actual percentage is calculated as the number of activities found that match the check divided by the total number of subset activities checked.
Screen Elements
Project ID field
The unique identifying code of the project containing the activity which failed the check. Click this link to view the project.
Activity ID field
The unique identifying code for the activity which failed the check. Click this link to view the activity.
Activity Name field
The name of the listed activity. Click this link to view the activity.
Constraint Type field
The type of constraint on the activity.
A hard constraint type prevents activities from being moved. In P6, the hard constraints available are Mandatory Start and Mandatory Finish. A soft constraint type does not prevent activities from being moved, but it can distort float. In P6, the soft constraints available are Start on, Start on or before, Start on or after, Finish on, Finish on or before, and Finish on or after.
Constraint Date field
The date for which the activity's constraint applies. Depending on the constraint type, this date could be a start or finish.
For example, for a Finish On constraint, the constraint date is the date on which the activity must finish. If the activity does not have a constraint, this field is empty.
Position field
The constraint position: primary or secondary.
Getting Here
- Click Projects.
- On the Projects navigation bar, click Activities.
- Click the Actions
menu and select Check Schedule, then select View Report.
- Click the Actions