![]() ![]() Our demonstration markers were single triangles for simple deadline markers, but we could have also defined passive rectangular bars indicating an ideal date range window of opportunity. So, in Primavera P6, the user start date and user finish date bars columns serve a useful function: to support insertion of passive markers on the Gantt chart. Great! Now we have all our project deadlines front, center, and viewable directly on the Gantt chart. Observe the passive magenta triangular markers and labels: Project Complete Due 0, Install Fence Due 0, and Substantial Completion Due 0. The result is the schedule, including deadlines, displayed in Figure 10. Last note the bars labels associated with the deadline bars definition, Figure 9. The arrow should now connect to the project complete milestone. Primavera P6 connects arrows to bars higher in the stack, which is what we want. Use the bars dialog shift down arrows, Figure 8, to move the deadline bars definition below the milestone and baseline milestone bars. Where your bars definition is in the bars stack affects how arrows connect to activities on the Gantt chart. The problem is our deadline marker bars definition is too high in the stack of bars, Figure 6. This situation is rectified in the bars dialog. We want it to point to the finish milestone. This is fine, but the arrow is pointing to the wrong bar. When you select OK in the bars dialog a project deadline marker appears similar to Figure 7. Because the start and finish dates are the same we only need one triangular shape to configure our bar style. The filter is all activities, and the shape and color is as per Figure 6. The timescale is user dates, user start date is the deadline start UDF, and user finish date is the deadline finish UDF. We continue and create a deadline bars definition, Figure 6. We enter the text ‘Due’ and associated deadline start and deadline finish dates for activities project complete, install fence, and substantial completion. Now we go to the activities table and populate the values of our UDFs, Figure 5. Figure 3Īs per Figure 4, we create three UDFs: ‘deadline’ data type text, ‘deadline finish’ data type finish date, and ‘deadline start’ data type start date. Select Enterprise | User Defined Fields…, Figure 3. We want to insert passive due date markers on the Gantt chart for activities: install fence, substantial completion, and project complete. This project has been progressed through the first full week of February. We have in Figure 2 our demonstration project. This article provides a demonstration to explain the purpose of the user start date and user finish date columns in the bars dialog. Thus, the timescale column informs Primavera P6 that the bar type is user dates. ![]() Note that the user start date and user finish date fields are only active when the respective bars timescale is set to user dates. In a nutshell the user start and finish date columns can be used with user defined fields (UDFs) to place passive bars on the Gantt chart that are not part of the network. The user start date and user finish date columns require further explanation.
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