Create top-down summary tasks (Project Server 2010)
Applies to: Project Server 2010
Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-13
While you plan a project, you may only have some high-level information about major milestones. In this version of Microsoft Project Web App, you can still plan your project, even without work estimates or details about what tasks might be involved. Instead of entering the task-level details about your project, you can take a top-down approach by creating high-level summary phases based on the overall timeline of your project.
Create tasks that represent what you know about the project.
Indent subtasks under summary tasks to represent different stages or phases within the project.
Enter the desired dates or durations at the summary task level to manually schedule the summary task so that the dates and durations of the subtasks do not roll up to the summary task.