Manage Tasks During Planning

Task maintenance includes editing, splitting, deleting, and updating tasks while keeping schedule logic intact.

Use task maintenance when the plan changes before approval or when control reveals that the current plan must be adjusted.

Workflow

  1. Check dependencies and assignments before deleting or splitting.

  2. Edit properties from the table, Gantt chart, or task dialog.

  3. Split work only when the interruption has planning meaning.

  4. Review successor tasks and capacity impact.

  5. Keep baseline values separate from current-plan updates.

Edit tasks

Select a task in the diagram or table, open the required properties tab, make the change, and confirm with OK.

Task properties for editing a task

Important task values can also be edited directly in the Gantt table.

Editing task values in the task table

In the chart area, move or resize the bar only when the date or duration change is intended and does not bypass the scheduling logic.

Editing task dates by moving a Gantt bar

Use Start > Schedule to update completion information where the schedule workflow requires it.

Schedule command for task progress

Split or delete tasks

Use Split when an interruption has planning meaning, for example because completed work and remaining work must be tracked separately.

Split command in the task context menu

When splitting into several tasks, define the split parameter and values. Enable finish-start links if the resulting tasks should remain a controlled sequence.

Split task into several tasks dialog

Delete a task only after checking successors, resource assignments, and baseline impact. Use Start > Edit > Delete or the relevant context command.

Delete task command Deleting a task in the Gantt chart

Check the result

  • Successors have not lost planning logic.

  • Assignments still match the changed work.

  • Progress remains interpretable.