Large Float - Activities with a Total Float Greater Than 352 Hours Section of the Schedule Check Report Dialog Box

Overview

Use this section to view activities with a float greater than the number of hours you specify in the Large Float field in the Check Schedule dialog box. Activities with a large float might be missing a suitable predecessor or successor. A high percentage of large floats can indicate an unstable network that is not logic driven.

Only a subset of 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 the list of activities checked for total float greater than the specified value. 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.

Total Float (hours) field

The total number of hours an activity can be delayed before risking a delay to the project finish date.

A float of zero hours indicates that the activity cannot be delayed at all and a negative float indicates that the project is already behind schedule. In a complex schedule, negative total float on some activities might not cause a delay to the project finish date.

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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