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milestone gantt

Assaf FMember for 18 years 9 months
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Hi,
I have a gantt that has only milestones. Some of them are 100% complete.
The sumary line of the activities/gantt shows 0% complete.
Why can’t I see the part that is complete - if 3 are complete out of 10, why don’t I see 30%??

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    Mike Testro ·
    Hi Asaf

    When they are all set to 100% it will showw 100%.

    The option in a milestone is either 0 or 100 and MSP cannot do sub percents in its summary.

    PowerProject does add up completed milestones.

    What sort of weird project are you working on anyway.

    Best regards

    Mike Testro
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    Mal Leadbetter ·
    I think ( and I stand to be corrected) it is to do with the zero duration value of the milestones.

    You can give each milestone a 1 day duration and then mark the task as a miletone on the activity form. By doing this "progress" should roll up to the summary bar.

    Cheers
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    Trevor Rabey ·
    You don’t see 30% because that’s not how MSP calculates Summary % Complete,
    especially if you only have Milestones.
    Even if you have, say, 10 tasks which have some duration, say 1 Day, those
    10 tasks may be distributed in any of any number of ways, over any overall
    duration, say 20 days, and then various of those tasks may each be not
    started yet, or somwhat complete or 100% Complete.
    How is MSP (or you) to calculate Summary % Complete which accounts for all
    possibilities, and also always "looks right" visually?
    It’s a compromise. We accept the MSP Summary % Complete calculation and
    don’t attach much much meaning to it because there isn’t much.

    What if your 10 Milestones are spread across 10 days (with date constraints
    or lag, or other predecessors), with, say, the 3 complete ones all at the
    very start, and the others at the very end? Is 30% for the Summary still
    what you expect?

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