

Note: In Project Plan 365 app we support both Automatically Scheduled and Manually Scheduled tasks. In the General tab, Schedule mode group, select Manually Scheduled or Auto Scheduled. Select the desired task, then go to the Task menu and select the Task Information dialog.Ģ. There is also another way to change the task mode for a specific task:ġ. In the list that appears, click Manually Scheduled or Auto Scheduled.

Click on the Task Mode field in Gantt Chart view. Step by step on how to change the task mode for a task:ġ. Use the Insert column option under Format menu. Step by step on how to insert the Task Mode column:ġ. The Task Mode column displays an icon indicating whether a task is a manually scheduled task, or an automatically scheduled task. The Task Mode field is not included by default. Use the Insert Column option to insert and display Task Mode column in views like Gantt Chart, Tracking Gantt or Task Sheet view. By default, tasks are set as auto scheduled, with a start date, finish date, and duration calculated based on inserted fields values. The Task Mode field indicates whether a task is scheduled manually or automatically, which gives you the option of deciding how much control you want over task scheduling in a project. When a task is in manually scheduled mode, the Start, Finish, and Duration columns can be blank or include text values in addition to recognizable dates.

This new improvement gives you greater compatibility with all plans created in Microsoft Project. Manual tasks should be used when you want to explicitly set a task's start and finish dates and not allow it to be changed automatically by the scheduler based on changes to other tasks. You can have a manually scheduled task (or for short, manual task) placed anywhere in your plan, and Project Plan won't change it.

Project Plan 365 supports both automatically and manually scheduled tasks. Automatically scheduled tasks have start, finish and duration values calculated by Project Plan 365 based on dependencies, constraints, calendars, and other factors.
