Yes. The Scheduler in PPO does honor predecessors even after % Complete (Actual Progress %) on tasks have been captured.
If the dates in your MSP schedule don't correspond to the dates in the PPO Scheduler, it is potentially related to this.
Our findings in testing is that MSP does not honor a predecessor implemented on a task after it has progress captured (% Complete > 0). The Scheduler in PPO however applies the predecessor no matter the % Complete value.
Example scenario below:
If you create your MSP and start capturing % Complete (1) before applying Predecessors (2), MSP will ignore the Predecessor. In the example below, Task 2 was supposed to start directly after Task 1 but the Start date remained at 29 September (due to % Complete being captured before Predecessors). This is standard MSP behaviour.
If the above MSP file is imported into PPO and you view the Task List, it looks the same as the MSP file:
However, when viewing it in the Scheduler, it shows correctly by taking the Predecessors into account:
A fix in PPO:
While on the Scheduler, you can click on Submit, then then when navigating back to the Task list, the Predecessors are recalculated and taken into account. Our suggestion then is to keep using the Scheduler to update your tasks. This will ensure that there's no misalignment on dates.
The fix in MSP:
- First apply predecessors before capturing % Complete.
- If this wasn't done you would need to update the % Complete values to 0%, capture the Predecessors and then re-capture % Complete values.