Creating New Dependencies

Manual OPD supports the creation of two type of dependencies: Point and Time.

Select any milestone other than the END milestone in the plan tree and select the Dependencies tab. You can see Add and Delete options in the dependencies tab. When you create a dependency you are creating a Dependent-On type of relationship between the milestones, which means when you select a milestone from the tree, as shown in the example START milestone was selected in the tree and when creating the dependency you are trying to define that this selected START milestone is Dependent-On which other milestone from other plan-items.

You cannot create any dependency from the END milestone.

Select a valid milestone (other than END milestone) in the tree and click "Add" in the dependencies tab, an empty dependency row is created and you are expected to create a point or time dependency.

Creating Point Dependencies

Click the Add new point dependency icon to create a point dependency. A popup is displayed with all the plan-items containing milestones on which you can create the dependency.

Choose the appropriate milestone from the tree on which you want to create the dependency. In the dependency-tree widget you are able to select all the milestones other than the START milestone. You cannot create dependency on the START milestone.

Select the appropriate milestone from the dependency-tree widget and click the OK button. A point dependency is created in the empty row created earlier.

Creating Time Dependencies

Click the Add new time dependency icon to create a time dependency. A date time picker popup is displayed.

Select the appropriate date and time to create the time dependency.

After selecting the appropriate date and time from the picker, click the OK button and a time dependency is created in the empty dependency row you had created earlier.

If you want to create multiple point dependencies from the selected milestone in the tree, then you must create multiple rows in the dependency table. You can only create a single dependency (point or time) per row created in the dependency table. For example, if you created three point dependencies from a milestone, then you have to create a row in the dependency table per point dependency, which would look like the dependency table shown in the following screenshot:

You can add Time-Dependency only to the START milestone and cannot add multiple Time-Dependencies on the same milestone.

If you are to create more than one dependency on the selected milestone and you do not have enough milestones on which you can create the dependency, then you get the following warning message: