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Put tasks into sequence

Put tasks into sequence

- [Instructor] Tasks need to be performed in the right sequence for work to go well. Just like you'd better open the door before you try to walk through the doorway, tasks dependencies, or task links, are what define the task sequence. The first three work tasks run from the finish of one to the start of another. Those dependencies are called finish to start. To link those I'm going to drag over the task ID's for those three tasks, and then on the task tab, in the schedule section, you click the link task icon. It looks like two links of chain. It creates finish to start dependencies, which is the most common type. You can see the link lines over on the right in the time scale, and also you can see the task ID's of the predecessors in the predecessors cells. Let's add some more links. Well, first of all, we have to receive equipment before we can we inspect it. So I'm going to select task four, receive equipment,…

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