Hammock ’line’ or ’activity’

i believe i am asking about Level of Effort??
many thanks
Jon

Jon
Add in a new activity in the WBS leg and change the activity type to WBS Summary - link with SS to the first chronological activity and FF with the final chronological activity, WBS Summary will autmoatically change dates if any of the detail underneath changes

Shimmo

Shimmo,, your the man
cheers

no problem, you can also run filters when you do printouts which will filter these off as I have found people can get confused by them and question why they are there

It isnt necessary to "link" a WBS Summary activity

Steven is right, you do not need to link the WBS summary. you only assign the WBS and it will give its summary
Level of effort is completely different, it is a flexible activity where its duration depends on its successor and predecessor. Level of efforts need to be linked

thanks for that info Gents,, so just for clarity, in my instance, i really want one activity bar at the very top of the ’group’ that details the START of the first activity and FINISH of the last activity (all of the activities inbetween are logic linked),, what Activity Type shoud I go for?? Level of Effort or WBS SUmmary??
once again, many thanks for all info posted

regards
Jon

WBS Summary

Jon, you dont use the WBS summary for this case unless your group is a COMPLETE WBS. The start date of WBS summary is the start date of the FIRST activity in the WBS and the finish date is that of the LAST activity of the WBS even is the activities in reference are not displayed in your layout.
if you need to view the summary of any group in your layout (whether having the same code, wbs, or any other criteria) simply check the option in your group and sort window that says: Show group totals.
If you want to display this total on Gantt chart, right click on the chart -> bars -> click on the "Summary bar"