Hello and welcome to this presentation on Microsoft Project.
During this presentation we're going to be looking at what is new in Microsoft Project
Professional 2013.
This is a picture of me.
My name is Tom Henry, I'm a consultant here at EPMA and you're in the right place.
Thanks for watching.
I'm now going to demonstrate the Task Path Highlighting feature, which is new to Microsoft
Project 2013.
So I've got a schedule here, I've got a summary task, some tasks here, a milestone, and I've
also got a hierarchy going on within my tasks.
So as you can see some predecessors populated already.
Now what I want to do, for Milestone One, I want to see which tasks are predecessors.
So the new feature will allow me to click on Milestone One.
I'm then going to go to the Format ribbon.
On the boxed off section of the format ribbon we'll find the Task Path Highlighting feature.
I'm going to click on that.
I get four options.
Predecessors, Driving Predecessors, Successes, and Driven Successes.
Now what I want to look at is the Predecessors, so I'm going to click on Predecessors and
now I can see Task One, Two, Three, Four and Five are predecessors to Milestone One.
And that makes sense.
Now, if I click on Task Three I can see that Task Two is a predecessor.
However, Task One is not.
So that's right.
What about if I click on Task Four?
Now I can see that Task One, Two and Three are predecessors.
Now whilst on Task Four, I want to know which ones are driving this task, so if the duration
of that task increased would push out this task I'm currently clicked on.
So that would be a driving predecessor.
So I'm going to click on Task Four.
Click on Task Path.
And I'm going to turn on the Driving Predecessors.
That selected, I can now see in dark orange which ones are driving.
If I'm not sure what the colors represent I can hover over the task and I'll get the
Tool Tip.
Path Driving Predecessor.
Going to the other one, hover over this one.
Path Predecessor.
So it's not Driving.
So that's the driven and non-driven predecessors.
I'm now going to demonstrate the Successor and Driven Successor Task Path Highlighting.
So from Task One I want to see which tasks are Successor Tasks to Task One.
So from the Format ribbon in the boxed off section format ribbon we have the Task Path
Highlighting.
We select that.
Then select Successors.
Now I can see right where the gun shot we have these purple tasks, Path Successor.
And that means that Task Four and Task Five are Successor Tasks to Task One.
Okay, from Task Two.
The highlighting will be updated and we can see which tasks are successor tasks to Task
Two.
In this case it's three, four and five.
Now, perhaps I want to see which tasks are Driven Successors.
By Driven Successors I mean should the end date of this task I selected be increased,
it would therefore push out the start date of the next Successor Task.
So I'm going to turn on the Driven Successor highlighting.
You can see, again it just updated and I've got the purple one which means Driven Successors.
So, for Task Two, should that duration be increased it will push out these three tasks's
start date.
For Task One it wouldn't actually push out these three because they're driven by Task
Two, and there's actually some slack in Task One.
I actually see the slack by using the slack checkbox in the boxed off section of the Format
ribbon as well so I can see there's that slack, therefore they are not Driven Successors.
So that's the end of this demonstration.
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We've actually got a blog where you can find out lots more information about these things
and further on what we've actually just covered.
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