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- A summary task’s start date, finish date and duration are automatically calculated based on its sub tasks and therefore, cannot be entered manually. The start date is the minimum of the start dates of its sub tasks, while the finish date is the maximum of the end dates of its sub tasks.The duration is the max elapsed working days between the start and finish dates.
- Constraint dates are not applicable for summary tasks.
- Budget of a summary task is the sum of budgets of all its sub tasks.
- Estimated Cost of a summary task is the sum of estimated costs of all its sub tasks.
- Resources assigned to a summary task will not be factored into the estimated cost of the summary task, nor displayed on the RLC
- Celoxis allows you to either automatically calculate the percent (%) complete of summary tasks or you can enter it manually as well. This depends on the option you need to check when adding/editing a project. For details, click here. If this option is enabled, then a summary task’s percent complete The % Complete of a summary task is automatically calculated as the weighted sum of percent complete of all its sub tasks and explained as follows :
If p is the percentage complete of a task and w is the estimated effort on a task, then:
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