Help

The Community will be temporarily unavailable starting on Friday February 28. We’ll be back as soon as we can! To learn more, check out our Announcements blog post.

Prevent Milestone Dates from moving

Topic Labels: Dates & Timezones
773 1
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
emking
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Hey all,

I'm working on setting up a tracker for my team, but I'd like to set it up so that our final milestone in the Gantt chart is a fixed date that cannot be changed. The milestone date represents our client delivery date that we cannot pass, so if previous dependencies shift, I don't want the milestone to change. It's fine, almost preferable, if we get a warning that there's something wrong. Is there a way to set it as a fixed deadline?

I'm new to the community and still learning, so if you need more information, I'm happy to provide it!

1 Reply 1
kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

One possible solutions is to have a separate {Client Delivery Date} date in addition to the {Start Date} and {End Date} fields. Then use a formula field to compare the {End Date} to the {Client Delivery Date} date (if there is one), and display a warning if the the {End Date} is after the {Final Milestone} date. The {Client Delivery Date} could be a lookup/rollup of a date in a parent project record for all of the tasks in the Gantt.