Calculate Meeting Points

Use a link to calculate the meeting point between two activities that are working towards each other on the time and distance axes.

Ways to access

  • Select a predecessor activity in a view. Click-and-drag the link icon to the next activity until the cursor changes. Edit the properties for the selected link in the Object Properties pane > Link tab.

Example

Activities A and B are working at a rate of 3m/h.

The rate of activity B changes to 5 m/h.
The meeting point is recalculated.

Steps

Calculate the meeting point of two activities

  1. Select the predecessor activity.

  2. Click-and-drag the link icon to the next activity until the cursor changes to Edit the properties for the selected link in the Object Properties pane > Link tab.

  3. For the Link type, select Calculate meeting point.

  4. Set a time gap, if one activity should finish before the other.

  5. Calculate the activity by pressing F9 on your keyboard or clicking the Reschedule icon on the toolbar.

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Further information

Create Links