Project Planning and Control Using Primavera Contractor Version 6: Including Versions 4.1, 5.0 and 6.1

Primavera Contractor has many more date fields for the current schedule than P3, SureTrak or Microsoft Project. This section explains how these date fields calculate.
There is very little documentation available on how these dates are calculated and the author has ascertained the information following by trial using an unresourced schedule.
After you understand these fields, you should look again at the Bar Timescale options in the Bars form. It will be easier to understand how the bar formatting works.
| These are always the earliest dates that unstarted activities or the incomplete portions of in-progress activities may start or finish based on calendars, relationships and constraints.
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| The latest dates that unstarted activities or the incomplete portions of in-progress activities may start or finish based on calendars, relationships and constraints. | ||
| These dates are manually applied, representing when an activity started or finished, and... |