1. Administering Planning
  2. Administering Tasks with Task Manager
  3. Managing Tasks
  4. Canceling Tasks

Canceling Tasks

The purpose of canceling (or aborting) a task (instead of performing a forced close) is to prevent successors from continuing and to keep the process moving:

  • When a Finish-to-Start or Finish-Error-to-Start predecessor is canceled, its successors remain as Pending. To keep the process moving, you must edit the successors to remove the canceled predecessor and to start the successors.

  • When a Finish-to-Finish or Finish-Error-to-Finish predecessor is canceled, to keep the process moving, the task owner/schedule owner/administrator must force a close of the successor.