Showing Actual Work/%Complete without it afffecting Planned Start & Planned Finish

I wish I could post a jpg on this. What I'm trying to do is say, ok i see I've started this task. I'm 30% done, but I don't want that to control the finish date of the task - I still want to be able to assign a finish date based on my judgement or task interdependencies regardless that the task is 30% done. But Primavera is saying "no the 30% now controls the finish date."

Hi Geoffrey.

I guess that you have assigned a duration type % complete the tasks. Change this to Physical % complete and you are be able to separately detail the % complete and remaining duration of the task. So,now you can control the task finish date.

Regards Johannes

Oh thank you Johannes!

I can take my head out of the oven now. I had not followed through with that variable on both sides of Gantt layout. And also didn't understand the difference between physical and Performance Percent, and also referred to as Activity % Complete (physical being "entered manually by the user instead of being calculated by the application." Perhaps they should have named it "Manual % Complete, Not Calculated, For Informational Purposes Only, and Thus Not Affecting the Schedule." Hmm. Evevn the acronym would be too long! How about SN % Complete (Side Note)...

I'm very simple, so it's dangerous providing me with all these tools...