Soft Constraints - Constraints That Do Not Prevent Activities Being Moved Section of the Schedule Check Report Dialog Box

Overview

Use this section to view activities in the schedule with soft constraints. Soft constraints do not prevent activities from being moved, but they can distort float and create negative float.

Only a subset of 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 the list of activities check for Soft 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.
1. Click the Actions menu and select Check Schedule, then select View Report.

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