Re: Planner-list Due Dates or Deadlines and Working backwards

[Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Chris Walker <chris walker52 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi!

Hi,

> I'm trying to use planner to set a due date/deadline (instead of a start
> date) and work the # of days backwards.  Is that possible?  I was hoping by
> putting negative values in it would work, but it did not.
>
> Please let me know if this is possible.

It is possible, but it's done differently. Create a milestone task
with a fixed date, then have your other tasks with dependencies
between them so that they form a chain.

A → B → C → Milestone.

C is a predecessor of Milestone, B is a predecessor of C and A is a
predecessor of B.

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Alexandre Franke