Milestones

Hello Oliver,

Hope you enjoyed your Microsoft Project course with Best STL.

Thank you for your question regarding deadlines that you wish to add to your project. Milestones are generally not used to monitor when tasks go past their expected date of completion. They are usually linked to a specific task which when completed will announce (not literally) the completion of that particular phase of the project.

There are two ways to warn you when a specific task has gone past its deadline date. These are as follows: -

1) Double click the required task and select the 'Advanced' tab. In the 'Constrain Task' section, select a date from the 'Deadline' drop-down calendar. This does not act as a restriction in any way, but, will place a red warning icon in the indicators column to warn you when the task has gone past its deadline date.

2) You can set a constraint to the required task which will give you a warning message when tasks before this one try to move thus affecting the date set in the constaint. The constraints you could use would be either Finish No Later Than / Start No Later Than or Must Finish On. The last one is the most restrictive. This will only work if you haven't switched off the 'Advice from the Planning Wizard' which is on by default.

I hope this resolves your question. If it has, please mark this question as resolved.

If you require further assistance, please reply to this post. Or perhaps you have another Microsoft Office question?

Have a great day.
Regards,

Rodney
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer