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What is Free Slack field?
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The Free slack field contains the amount of time that a task can be delayed without delaying any successor tasks and is the difference between the dates in the Early finish and Late finish against the successor.

What is Total Slack field?
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The Total slack field contains the amount of time a task’s finish date can be delayed without delaying the project’s finish date and is calculated as the difference between the Early finish and the Late finish.

What is Finish Slack?
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The Finish Slack field contains the duration between the Early Finish and Late Finish dates. The smaller of the finish slack and start slack amounts determines the amount of free slack available, that is, the amount of time a task can be delayed without affecting the start date of a successor task or the project finish date.
What is Start Slack?
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The Start Slack field contains the duration between the Early Start and Late Start dates. The smaller of the start slack and finish slack amounts determines the amount of free slack available, that is, the amount of time a task can be delayed without affecting the start date of a successor task or the project finish date.
What does the “Print for Android” functionality do?
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The “Print for Android” functionality allows you to print the active view of the current project on paper, by using a connected printer to your Android device.
How to Install the Project Plan 365 for Android Tablet?
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In order to install Project Plan 365 for Android Tablets, follow the steps below: 
  1. Go to our Download page.
  2. Select the Android platform and click on the Download Project Plan 365 button. 
  3. Go to Downloads folder.
  4. Select ProjectPlan_365_Android and then click the Install button.
  5.  Project Plan 365 is automatically installed in the Applications folder.

When is best to use the Active field?
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The Active field is useful when various proposals are being presented for a plan and ultimately one course of action will be selected. The Active field is also useful when a task or set of tasks is being cut because of a scaling back of project scope. With the Active field, you can experiment with inactivating and reactivating tasks to see the resulting schedule effects. 
What is an inactive task?
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An inactive task is a task that stays in the plan, but does not affect resource availability, the project schedule, or how other tasks are scheduled. They appear dimmed with a strikethrough.
How to Install the Project Plan 365 for Android Phone?
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In order to install Project Plan 365 for Android Phone, follow the steps below: 
  1. Go to our Download page.
  2. Select the Android platform and click on the Download Project Plan 365 button. 
  3. Go to Downloads folder.
  4. Select ProjectPlan_365_Android and then click the Install button.
  5.  Project Plan 365 is automatically installed in the Applications folder.

What does the “Set the scheduling units for duration” functionality do?


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The Set the scheduling units for duration functionality, as the name describes it, allows you to set the units the duration is entered in.
What does “touch activities” mean?
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A touch activity may be achieved through combining multiple touch mechanics. For example, by using the touch mechanics of pinch open, double-touch, or double-touch and dragging, a user may zoom in on a view.
What does “touch mechanic” mean?
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A touch mechanic may cause different outcomes, depending on the context in which it is used. For example, a long press may select an element like a list item.
What does “Gesture” mean?
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Gestures include touch mechanics (what your fingers do on the screen) and touch activities (results of specific gestures).
What does the “Android Gesture” functionality mean?
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The Android Gesture functionality means you can use gestures specific to Android mobile devices in our Project Plan 365 app.
When is best to use the Max. Units field?
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Use the Max. Units field in a resource view to indicate whether the work resource is full time or part time on this project, or whether multiples of this resource are consolidated into one. For example:
  • If you want to indicate that all the person's time is devoted to your project, type 100% in the Units field on the Resource Sheet view. If the person works 8-hour days, he or she will be overallocated if any combination of assignments exceeds 8 hours (100%) of the available workday.
  • If you want to indicate that only a part of a person's time is devoted to your project, type a number less than 100% in the Units field on the Resource Sheet view. If the person works 8-hour days and has 75% of his or her time devoted to your project, he or she will be overallocated if any combination of assignments equals more than 6 hours (75%) of the available workday.
  • If you want to indicate that a resource group, such as three carpenters, will work on the project full time, type 300% in the Units field on the Resource Sheet view.
Can I manually change the Max. Units?
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When you enter a resource in your project, by default the Max. Units’ field for this resource is set to 100%, which can be thought of as one full-time equivalent of the resource for the number of hours in a day (by default, 8). However, you can change the value at any value, below or above, the current max units. 
What is “Max. Units” field used for?
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The Max. Units field contains the maximum number of units, representing the maximum capacity for which a resource is available to accomplish any tasks during the current time period. Typically, by specifying the Max. Units field for a resource we express the total working condition for the resource, or the portion of his/her time set off for the overall project.
What steps should I follow in order to track the progress of my project?
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When you track the progress of your project, two things will help you the most:
  • Create a baseline before your project gets started.
  • Use the right views to see how things are going.
What does % Complete field show in Project Plan 365?  
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The % Complete fields contain the current status of a task, expressed as the percentage of the task's duration that has been completed. You can enter percent complete, or you can have Project Plan 365 calculate it for you based on actual duration.
What method does Project Plan 365 use for scheduling projects?
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Project Plan 365 uses an enhanced scheduling engine starting from Precedence Diagram Method. Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) is a method for scheduling projects based on project start date and tasks duration and predecessors. The PDM algorithm allows only auto-scheduled tasks and all tasks need to be on the same indent level. Summary tasks, manual tasks, or other constraints like calendars and tasks constraints are not allowed. This algorithm is used to calculate early start date, early finish date, late start date, late finish date, and slack.We enhanced this method in order to be used on general projects, where we can have any type of tasks (auto tasks, manual tasks, placeholder tasks, split tasks, null tasks and summary tasks). Also, this new method allows having constraints and considers calendars and resources. Also, all the constraints for a task and all types of predecessors are taken into consideration. For this, we create multiple graphs of tasks which allow us to find the optimal way to schedule a project.
How the Duration of a task is calculated?
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Duration for tasks can be calculated or entered. Application calculates the duration of a task by counting the amount of active working time between the scheduled start and end of the task. This is generally the time from task start to finish, not counting nonworking time.Tip: Enter the duration for tasks when you create the tasks. The Duration field is one of the major elements for scheduling calculations. It is the span of time shown by the Gantt bars on the Gantt Chart.
What does the Duration field show?
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The Duration field is the total span of active working time for a task. This is generally the amount of working time from the start to the finish of a task.
What does the Finish field show?
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The Finish field shows the date when a task is scheduled to be completed.
How a Start date for a task is calculated?
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A Start date can be calculated or entered. If you do not type a start date, application calculates a start date based on such things as relationships, calendars, and the scheduling method. If you type a start date, will be set automatically a Start No Earlier Than constraint and uses the date you type as the constraint date.
What does the Start field show?
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The Start field shows the date when an assigned resource is scheduled to begin working on a task.
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