startbuffer <percent>

startbuffer <percent>
Description

Specifies how much slack time you expect to have at the beginning of the task. This information has no impact on the scheduling of the project. It is for documentation purposes only.

AttributesNameTypeDescription
percentREAL

Percent slack of the overall effort, duration or length of the task.

Contexttask,
InheritableNoScenario Spec.Yes
See alsoduration, endbuffer, effort, length

project simple "Simple Project" "$Id" 2000-01-01 - 2000-01-20

resource tux1 "Tux1"

task t1 "Task1" {
  start 2000-01-01
  length 10d
  # 20% of the working time of this task are marked as buffer at the
  # beginning.
  startbuffer 20
  # An additional 10% of the working time of this task are marked as
  # buffer at the end.
  endbuffer 10.0
  allocate tux1
}

# Generate a report that lists the start end end dates for the
# buffers.
htmltaskreport "Buffer.html" {
  columns no, name, start, startbufferend, endbufferstart, end,
  startbuffer, endbuffer, duration, effort, daily
  hideresource 0
}