Re: [Planner] Question.

[Xander D Harkness <xander harkness co uk>]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 14:05 +0100, Paco Ros wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've just begun to use Planner as project management tool.
> In MS Project exists a tasks property called something like "not effort 
> conditioned" (I'm spanish, this is exactly "No condicionada por el esfuerzo") 
> 
> This property means that a task can begin one day, end another day and have a 
> different number of resourve usage hours.
> 
> i.e. Buying a computer. It could start January 1st, end January 31st and have 
> only 10 hours of dedication. This happen because you begin reading catalogs 
> on Jan 1st and you make a order. The task continues until the computer is 
> delivered to destination on Jan 31st.
How I would handle this is to add a task Get computer with a number of
sub tasks.  The first sub-task might be choose computer on 1st January,
the last sub-task might be computer arrives.  If you go to the Tasks
view  and select the start date for computer arrives and select the date
with constraint "start no earlier than" Jan 31st.

Kind regards
Xander