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Hello,

I'm wondering if it's possible to split a task or suspend ist for some time and rejoin or reactivate it later. Sometimes I need to assign one ressource to two (or more) tasks that have overlapping timeframes. I'll give a simplified example, not counting weekends etc.

Task 1: duration 10 days, start date day 1, calculated end date day 10
Task 2: duration 2 days, start date day 5, calculated end date day 6

If I assign both tasks to one 100%-ressource, the ressource has 200% workload on day 5 and 6. Since this is a bad thing, I want the ressource to stop working on Task 1 on day 5 and 6 and do only Task 2. Since there was no work done for Task 1 on day 5 and 6, the work on Task 1 will now end on day 12.
This could be easily done by splitting Task 1 into two seperate tasks, i.e.:

Task 1_1: duration 4 days, start date day 1, calculated end date day 4
Task 1_2: duration 6 days, start date day 7, calculated end date day 12

The problem with this solution is, that I have to adjust Task 1_1 and Task 1_2, if I reschedule the dates for Task 2. If I change Task 2 to start 2 days earlier or later, I have to remember to substract/add respectively 2 days on Task 1_1 and Task 1_2. If I even move Task 2 to start somewhere after day 10, I even would not need a split version of task 1 anymore.

Currently in my project, I have the problem of urgent tasks popping up with short notice or existing tasks beeing rescheduled to earlier or later dates. I need an easy way to estimate the impact of such changes on later tasks. Unfortunately, splitting tasks in two parts and adding/substracting days has proven to be too complicated for efficient work.

Thanks for your help, Cryn
I use an other project planning program that does exactly that - I find it very useful for the reasons you mention. Lets hope they include this soon.
This feature is planned and will be available in next update (in autumn time)
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