Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date

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 - Import Macro I have a macro set up to import data from Excel, but i want to extend the macro to then go on and apply a filter and delete rows based on the filter criteria. I have tried adding these latter steps to the macro and nothing happens beyond the import stage - is what i am trying to achieve feasible? Thanks in advance. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93607
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 - The notify your manager of time you will not be available link The notify your manager of time you will not be available link is no longer available. How should the administrator put that back? He is at a loss.... Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93606
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 - Does Project Professional 2003 come with Server CAL? Does Project Professional 2003 come with Server CAL? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93605
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 - VIEW ONLY OPTION Is there a view only option available for MS project 2003 that is free? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93602
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 - Single level Milestone roll up I am looking for a way to show a rolled up milestone only to the imediate level. In other words, I want to exclude some milestones that get rolled up to the top level. Is there a way to do this or will I be forced to rollup milestones all the way to the top level? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93600
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 - what is the resolution of microsoft publisher in dots per inch I am sending a microsoft file to have a business card printed. They wanted to be sure that the resolution is 300 dots per inch to insure clarity. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93599
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 - Is there a way to automatically wrap text in the Task Name field? When entering a task name that is longer than the column width, is there a way to set up the project so that the text will wrap to the next line automatically? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93598
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 - MS Project Professional 2002 I have a master project with 8 subprojects. Each subproject is interwined with the other and each resource is assigned to multiple tasks throughout the subprojects, so for a resource there are many overlapping tasks with many starts and finishes. My problem is that Project does not correctly add up the hours for a time period (I am using year and weeks for the time period display so I can see if resources are planned for a full work week) in the resource usage view. Has anyone ever experienced this? If so, have you been able to overcome this problem? Thank you for your help! Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93597
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 - How do I set up 24 simultaneous similar projects; 24-unit remodel Is there a more efficient way to run a 24 unit remodel job, with each unit's tasks similar but not the same as each other, besides creating 24 separate projects? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93591
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 - displaying multiple baselines i have saved multiple baselines in a project plan that includes many sub projects. however, when i want to track project variances through project, i always seem to have to do that against the original baseline that was saved. this goes for the gantt chart in the tracking view, as well. is there a way to use the most recent baseline when looking at the gantt chart? i'd like a graphical representation of tasks that have moved start/finish dates. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93590
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 - Need Help Creating Report This is tough to explain. We have each task labled as one of four catagories in a seperate column. I need a report showing how much time each employee has spent each month working in each catagory. The closest I could get left me with the issue of not being able to seperate the time on task with multiple resources. Can anyone suggest anything that might help me? Let me know if you need more clarification. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93589
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 - Get paid to promote my site <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft DHTML Editing Control"> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hello Fools -  I'm getting paid 0.01 Dollars every time I post here advertising http://<A href="http://www.dhosted.com">www.dhosted.com</A>  http://<A href="http://www.dhosted.com">www.dhosted.com</A>  http://<A href="http://www.dhosted.com">www.dhosted.com</A>  Email <A href="mailto:Info@dhosted.com">Info@dhosted.com</A> to sign up for this great chance to make money posting on newsgroups Duramz   Hello Fools -  I'm getting paid 0.01 Dollars every time I post here advertising http://<A href="http://www.dhosted.com">www.dhosted.com</A>  http://<A href="http://www.dhosted.com">www.dhosted.com</A>  http://<A href="http://www.dhosted.com">www.dhosted.com</A>  Email <A href="mailto:Info@dhosted.com">Info@dhosted.com</A> to sign up for this great chance to make money posting on newsgroups Duramz </BODY> </HTML> Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93588
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 - Calculating a parent WBS using a text column I am using a text field to enter WBS's, rather than Project's automated feature. We are using the 1.2.3 format. I would like to have another text column be the 'Parent WBS' column, but instead of actually typing in the parent WBS, I would like to create a formula that does it for me. My original approach would be the parent WBS would have a length of 2 less than the WBS text field (WBS = 1.2.3, Parent WBS = 1.2). However, if I have a WBS like '1.2.3.14', my output is '1.2.3.', rather than what I need it to be - '1.2.3'. Can anyone either help me with my approach, or provide a 'work around'? Potential work around would be if there is a '.' at the end of the string, then to remove it, but that sounds complicated, but may be the only way to do it. I am also not that good with VBA. Thanks. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93586
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 - number calendars increasing I am using Microsoft Projet 2002. I have a file of resources, shared by other projects. The number of calendars in the other projects is increasing dramatically, causing CPU overhead while opening the projects. Has anybody met this problem ? How can you solve it ? Please Help ! Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93580
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 - COMPRESS feature in MS2000 presentation Hi Everyone, I am in school online and had to create a presentation. The problem is, I d not have the COMPRESS feature in MS2000 I need to reduce the size of my presentation so I can submit it for a grade. The presentation cannot be larger than 1.99 MB Can someone help me COMPRESS this presentation? Thank you in advance for any help. Julianne Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93568
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 - Dependencies Hi, I want to make a tasks finish date the same as it's summary task. i.e. Summary 1 Start 1/1/05 Finish 31/12/05 sub task 1 start 1/1/05 finish 31/12/05 Sub task 2 start 10/12/05 finsih 31/12/05 If Sub Task 1 moves, then the summary will also move, I want Sub Task 2 to move, but MSP won't let me put a dependency on the summary task. I could put the dependency on sub task 1, which is fine in the example above, but in the plan I've got I've got about 20 tasks that could change the summary finish date and I don't want to ad ALL 20 other tasks as deppendencies. Any ideas ??? -- Dave Eade Global Project Solutions Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93566
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 - MPX in 2003 and MindJet / Mindmanager. I want to save a file in MPX format, but MSP 2003 doesn't let you. The tool I'm using Mindjet MindManager X5 allows the import of MSP files but only in MXP format - is there any way round this ( i.e. can I save as CSV then convert to MXP or something ??). Hanx. -- Dave Eade Global Project Solutions Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93560
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 - construction resource sheet I am in a project management program and have been given the task of finding some resource sheets for commercial construction. The instructor for the class suggested I pose the question here. I am looking for some samples of existing resource sheets for project 2003. Bill Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93552
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 - I own a Dell A960 printer - Will not print in color new cartridge I own a Dell A960 printer. I am having trouble understanding how to get it to print a document in color. It does not give me an option. What happens when I select the color button it goes straight to copy mode and expects a copy to be made instead. Please advise what I may be doing wrong. Thank you. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93549
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 - How do I make a business plan for a tax preparation service I am making a business plan for a school project and I would like some input or a template of some kind to follow. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93548
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 - project professional trial expired never even used it yet just installed CD for my schooling and it says 120 day trial expired?? any idea why Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93547
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 - export MS Project report to file Does anyone know why MS Project reports cannot be exported or saved to a file? For all the money we pay for project it doesn't seem to much to ask to be able to save a report to a file. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93544
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 - Unique Project Management and MS Project problem I have what I think is a unique Project Management and MS Project problem. I have 3 sets of tasks that each are populated at different levels of detail in one MS Project File. The first phase of the project represents 43% of the days to be consumed (SUM of the all durations) but accounts for only 15 % of the cost. The second and third phases have much less detail (line items) so there value in terms of total percent complete is under weighted. The workforce for each phase is different. Consumption of hours calculates the % complete per take but since the resources in each phase are not measured the same the Total Project % complete is way off. MS Project does not seem to have a way to address this. Ideas? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93540
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 - Custom Fields - Importing I have read the books, help files, etc. and can not find the answer...so here goes. I am running MSP 2003 Pro on my desktop and I am running a "learning test" for myself. I created a project (call it A) which contains a number of tasks with resources. I then created a resource pool file (from project A) that has only resources, no tasks. With both files open I created a custom resource text field in project A. The pool file was opened using the default "read only". Here is the question....how do I import this custom field into the resource pool? I tried the following (FYI): 1. In the pool file, I opened "Customize Fields", checked resources, selected type "Text" and then hit "Import Custom Field" button. Following that I selected project A and the custom field I wanted to import. Nothing happened. 2. Next, in the pool file, I tried renaming text1, selected "value List" button and tried to import the value list from the same project & field. Again no joy. 3. Finally, from the project A file, I tried the "update resource pool" button and again no luck. During one of these steps I actually lost the value list in project A. Only by closing the file w/o a save did it reappear. What or where did I go wrong? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93527
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 - Can I attach a word doc to a project task? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93526
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 - can i attach a word doc. into a project? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93521
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 - When I update actual work in Project baseline updates, why? I have a detailed project laid out, complete with assigned human resourse assignments, and saved the baseline. Now when I attempt to enter the actual hours worked in the "Task Usage" screen, the assigned value imediately updates to the same value. No variance results. What gives? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93516
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 - Resource pool changes schedule I have project 2003 and another user in our group has 2002. We use shared resource pools for our project schedules. She created a schedule and was instructed "not to open other files, you could corrupt them" referring to the resource file, prior to my arriving here. My quick question is this: Why would the scheduled dates change when the resource pool is opened when viewing the schedule? If she does not open the resource pool, different dates appear that are earlier than those shown when the resource pool is opened. We are using duration based scheduling and there are no constraints or task calendars associated with the tasks that change. Also, how can I tell which resource pool she pointed the schedule to? She must have a copy, but I can't see the full directory specification and we name all of our resource pools the same name. Thank you in advance for any pointers. -- Tina S. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93514
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 - duration error In one summary task, the field shows #####,##### I am just learning to use this softwear so my jargon may be off. The start and finish dates look right for the duration total of the sub-tasks. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93503
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 - Remaining Work View Hello, I am trying to produce a graph showing weekly actuals and overall budget burnt. I need to show this as a weekly status. My question is this (i am sure it is easy), basically i have 100 plans open in one window with actual work on the right hand side. Is there anyway of displaying or customising a view to show the remaining work for the weeks where there are no actuals? Any help greatly appreciated Many Thanks Emma Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93502
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 - how can I set a printed Network Diagram properties ? I want to show colums based on time [months] with the month as the title of each column -- Dave Eade Global Project Solutions Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93494
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 - I want to show a wbs structure as a picture like a network diagram any ideas -- Dave Eade Global Project Solutions Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93493
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 - OrganizerMoveItem Example vba code: OrganizerMoveItem Type:=9, FileName:="MSPOrganise.mpp", ToFileName:="Global.MPT", Name:="MyCost (Cost)" The problem here is, if someone else wants to use the above code they will need to change the word Cost to their own language. Is there anyway to get around this to specify the internal name of the field which is pjCustomTaskCost1? Mark Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93492
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 - Can Paint Shop Pro images be opened in any other programme I do not have Paint Shop Pro in my computer but have received some photos on disc and ofcourse cant open them as they are psp images can I change this to open elsewhere or do I require Paint Shop Pro? Thanks Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93489
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 - Is there a Microsoft Project Viewer(free) available for download? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93487
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 - Display Gantt Chart bars Let me preface this by saying that I've used a previous version of Project and this is my first foray into Project 2003. I can't seem to figure out how to display the Gantt chart bars for the project. Thanks in advance. Barb Reinhardt Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93486
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 - exporting an MS Project report It is so obvious that you'd like to export an MS Project report into e.g. an Excell file that I can not believe it does not exist. But it does not. There were postings about this before. At this very moment I am in an MSO-course and the sensei does not know it either .... What a shame, got to come in the next version! -- tj Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93484
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 - How can I show roll-up by on the immidiate summary bar only? I have organized a task into several levels of subtasks. I would like to show the task completed in the summary bar and am using roll-up bar to show the task complete. However if I roll-up it will roll-up to all the summary bars in all level while I only want it to roll-up to the immidiate summary bar. Is there any way to solve this problem? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93478
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 - Can cost/use be used differently Most of my work is on the capital costs of projects rather than people costs. If I use cost/use for a resource I obviously get the cost applied at the start of the task which is fine for short duration tasks but not for long duration tasks. Is there a way of splitting the cost/use into unequal parts and specifying the various dates when those costs are to be applied. -- Steve @ Newcastle Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93470
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 - How to customize a site template with several documentation libraries ? Hi , I want to create a site template with several fixed documentation libraries in the sharepoint service and the PWA. It will look like the following ... Documents Shared Documents <-- Currently in the default site template Test Documents Meeting Minustes After the site template is created,everyone creates the project will create the sharepoint site with above documentation library as default showing in the list. Can anyone tell me what can I do ? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93468
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 - Resource Color I have Project 2003 and would like to have a different color for each resource name Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93467
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 - User's group permission problem on project server 2003 Dear all I'm using project server 2003. I have problem for some users (not all user in the system). I try to change their user group to project manager group. However, in the morning everyday, these users's group are reset to team member. Please could you guys tell me how to sort this out. PS. These users are using NT authentication, also in enterprise resource pool Thank you in advance, Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93465
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 - Can MS Project send email alerts regarding milestones? I want to have MS Project send me and others automatic alerts regarding milestones. How do I set that up? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93461
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 - Using colour blocks for the task names columns in Project? I want to use colour blocks to sort and differentiate various groups of tasks in MS Project. How do I do that? Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93459
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 - MS Project & multiple task relationships I would like to see MS Project be able to accomodate 2 or more relationships. Such as Start-to-start and Finish-to-Finish. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=3c51d51b-ce5f-4824-b6e6-6fd5884d0931&dg=microsoft.public.project Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93455
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 - Release Notes Available for Project 2002? Having unexpalined problem Folks, I've done some Googling on the internet and searching on Microsoft's web site, with no success. On my machine at work I have Project 2002 (10.0.2002.0502). I'm having problems Project incorrectly recomputing Duration when I insert a subproject file into a linked rollup master file. Both the subproject and master file are using a specific non-default working-time calendar. Project is acting as if it forgets the working time calendar. In the subproject file, for example it's a fixed duration 1-day, but when I put it into the master file it changes to 1.07 day. Since I never saw this happen before, I moved all the subproject files to another machine (my personal machine) running a slightly newer version of Project 2002 (10.0.2104.1305 SP-1) which I believe is the most up-to-date version of Project 2002. I see the same problem on the same master file, but if I recreate the master file, then re-insert the 4 subproject files, the problem does not re-occur. This makes me think that there was a bug fix between the two versions of Project 2002. While I can't guarantee this is the root cause of the problem (more testing is required and I'm short of time), it will help my cause to request the IT Dept to upgrade to 10.0.2104.1305 SP-1 if I can show that Microsoft recognised and fixed the bug. Without this, the IT Dept's attitude will be that I'm doing something wrong since they will claim that nobody else reports the problem. They don't know much about Project, and will be hard pressed to really understand the problem. Anybody recall this particular flaws in Project 2002? A long shot, but is there a published list of bug-fixes to Project 2002? Thanks in advance. I have my hands full re-planning a high-profile project, and I don't have time to mess with what looks to be a bug. thanks, rms Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93453
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 - Best Practice for Using lags Is there a best practice for using lags in schedules? I've just been told not to use a lag from the beginning of a schedule to an activity a month down the road. I used an FS+20d successor. Is there a better way to show this relationship? Thanks in advance, Alone Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93452
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 - Resources We have a project that we have assigned a completion date to and now need to assign resources. If we assign resources and the task still cannot be completed by the constraint, will project tell us that the task needs more resources? Thanks, Bob V. Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93450
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 - To Steve House Hello Thanks. The example of Bill & Joe is okay if data exists. Whereas I experienced this even when I was just starting to enter the data. I thought that since I was using the standard version, it might have been crippled, and hence the question. Milind Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93441
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 - Color codings in Network Diagrams? Hello What are the meanings of different colors applied to boxes in network diagrams? Also what about single diagonals? Thanks Milind Tag: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date Tag: 93434

Has anyone of you clear in his/her mind what is the definition of the total
slack of a task in a project scheduled from a finish date?
Thank you

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Re: Meaning of total slack in a project scheduled from a finish date by Rod

Rod
Thu Nov 17 01:37:30 CST 2005

This is one of the problems of scheduling from a finish date. By default
everything starts as late as possible, so everything is critical. You have
to manually add lag etc to create slack. I find that by the end of a
project, scheduling from a finish date takes up to twice the effort to
maintain.

Much better to schedule from the earliest start date going forward and set a
deadline on the last task to finish.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more

"Michele" <Michele@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone of you clear in his/her mind what is the definition of the
> total
> slack of a task in a project scheduled from a finish date?
> Thank you

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