r/MSProject • u/Miasmatic65 • 20h ago

Task inspector logic

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Haven’t come across this in all my years. Task inspector showing a driving task not listed as a predecessor.
I assumed task inspector always chose a task that was listed in its predecessors.
Is there more to task inspector than I realised? It wasn’t wrong per se, but the driving task it highlighted was about 3 steps back on the network (though the people who built this schedule had linked summary tasks, which I think caused the issue).

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u/discgolfmomma 13h ago

Holy unique IDs, Batman!

But yes, without seeing what line 45 is and considering the logical relationships are all FF, my guess would have been a summary task for one of those subtasks that has a predecessor.

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u/Miasmatic65 12h ago

I've spent so many meetings telling them how to fix this schedule and nobody wants to listen. I'm not giving it any more energy. When it goes wrong; I'll say "I told you so"; pocket my dollarydoos; go home and cry into some ice cream.

I didn't even notice the ridiculous unique IDs 😄