 Hello, my name is Richard Walters. In this demonstration we are going to look at manual scheduling tasks, as well as autograddling tasks and the difference between the two types of scheduling. In this demonstration we are going to look at manual and autograddling tasks. Now the default of mycosof project is what is called manual scheduling. This little light blue pin symbol that indicates manual scheduling tasks this is the default of Microsoft Project. Now this can be used for controlling tasks one at a time, but shouldn't really be used to managing an entire project or process. So really the default of Microsoft Project has sometimes caused some organisations some difficulties because they didn't understand manual scheduling. So the idea behind manual scheduling is you schedule things yourself. So say now I wanted to change the start date of task one to a different date. I'll choose a different date, 27th and then you'll change task two to a different date and this kind of idea. So I'll just change four dates and this is the idea of manual scheduling. So you actually make changes yourself. But say now you wanted to update the entire project and a new start date is set and you want all the tasks to update accordingly. Manual scheduling will not work with this so I'll just demonstrate. So if I'm going to change the project start date so project tab and I can then use the project information and I'll just set the start date to let me go into December, click OK, and nothing changes. So the start date in effect is still on the 27th of November and the next date is the 29th of November and nothing's changed in line with the date that I've selected which is what I'd want them all to change to. Now this is because we use manual scheduling and we've actually done things ourselves. This can be quite a limitation within project, can be used at times but like we see now it doesn't link to some of the nice automated features in project like project start date. Something else it doesn't link to is a strong feature in project called setting constraints. Now if I were to double click task one or any of the tasks I'll just do task one which is ID one and go to the advanced section. The constraint type is grayed out so they will not allow you to use constraints with manual scheduling which is a way of delaying a task if there's a problem with a task and rescheduling it so it's a lovely feature to have but this is only available in auto scheduling. So I'm going to now update these four tasks to auto scheduling now I've made changes in manual scheduling. Go to the top left and hide all the tasks and go to the task tab and I'll go to the tasks section of the ribbon and change to auto scheduling. Now this now takes me to a different symbol it's a blue rectangle with a little arrow underneath it. I've got the slightly different looking blue bars in the chart area of a gun chart and if I were to now for example change the start date and I wanted to say okay I want the start date to be back in November they all go back and they follow the start date which is what we want so then we have to delay task two for example which is the ID two and I'll still click it so there's a problem with this task I set a constraint and I'll say start now earlier than look at the date I'll say okay there's a problem with this can't start a new earlier than some date in December so I'll just pick a date December click okay and straight away the automated task moves on to show me there's a delay and the constraint then shows me there's a constraint being applied and I could add a note to this if I wanted to I could say delay of material in a supply chain situation so I'll just put a cut note and there's the note that goes with it if I want to remove the constraint with the auto-scheduling I can just double click the task and I will give it a note by deleting it to delete the constraint it's as soon as possible and now it's back to the way it was so automated gives you a lot of options that manual scheduling doesn't so it's not to say that manual scheduling can't be useful it can be at certain points if you want to control a task that's separate to a group of tasks that are linked together if you want to update project to auto-scheduling by default we could go to the file tab options go to the schedule section and where we've got new tasks created is manual scheduling you could change it to auto-scheduling now this will change it for this project only but if you wanted to make it a default you could choose all new projects if you do that just make sure because sometimes it changes back to manual scheduling just make sure they both look exactly the same so all new projects and auto-scheduling is now matched up and that's now correct and this would then update all future projects to be auto-scheduled and being able to have all the nice automated features this completes the demonstration on manual scheduling and auto scheduling tasks see you in the next video