Added by Robert Spierenburg 14 days ago
We are looking at using OpenProject in our Architectural firm for scheduling and we have a basic template setup with tasks and milestones. Is there a way to setup Milestones to be date agnostic? So instead of having a milestone set for a specific date its set for X days/weeks from now?
When we get potential projects from clients we would like a very loose timeline setup by default to see where it would land amongst all our other projects in various stages and so we could give the client a very basic idea of how long each milestone would take.
Thanks,
Rob
Replies (1)
Hello Rob,
you could try to make use of the preceds/follows relation between work packages, together with the lag feature.
For example, you could set up your template project with relations between its work packages (preceds/follows) as well as lag (min. duration AFTER the end of a preceding work package) but without an actual start/end date. Once a date is set in the first work package, all following will "find" its date based on the relations and defined lag. That way, you do not have to enter a start date for your milestone.
This guide provides more details regarding relations and lag between work packages:
https://www.openproject.org/docs/user-guide/work-packages/work-package-relations-hierarchies/#work-package-relations
Best,
Alexander