Creating Milestone Tasks
Project milestones are used to mark a point in your project, usually completion of a set of tasks or as a project health check to determine if you’re on schedule.
When creating a milestone task, you cannot assign a resource, enter estimated work, or a Finish No Later Than (FNLT) constraint. When viewing a project Gantt chart or schedule, milestone tasks are differentiated from regular project tasks.
To create a project milestone:
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Go to Lists > Relationships > Projects.
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Click the name of the project you want to edit.
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On the Schedule tab, click New Milestone.
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Enter a name for your milestone.
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Click the Predecessors tab.
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Select a predecessor task and type.
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Click Add.
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Continue adding any additional predecessors, when you have finished, click Save.
Converting Milestone Tasks to Project Tasks
A milestone can be converted to a project task by adding a positive number of estimated work or tracking time against the milestone.
You can edit a milestone and assign a resource with 0 hours of estimated work without converting the milestone to a project task. However, if the resource tracks time against the milestone it will be converted to a project task.
A Project task can also be converted to a milestone by removing positive estimated work and any FNLT constraint.