Dissolve an Activity

Dissolving an activity enables you to delete the activity from your project schedule while maintaining the activity's predecessor and successor relationships.

When you dissolve an activity, the following changes occur:

• The activity is deleted.
• Relationships are created from each of the activity's predecessors to each of the activity's successors.
• The resulting relationship type consists of the first part of the predecessor relationship and the second part of the successor relationship.
• Lag from the combined relationships is added together.

For example: Activity A forms a Finish to Start relationship with Activity B, with 1 day of lag. Activity B forms a Finish to Finish relationship with Activity C, with 2 days of lag. If Activity B is dissolved, then Activity A will form a Finish to Finish relationship with Activity C, with 3 days of lag.

To dissolve an activity:

1. Navigate to the Activities page
   1. In the object selector, select ﱆ Project or  Program, and then select a project or a program from the list.
   2. From the  Main Menu, select  Schedule, and then select Activities.
2. Select an activity, select the  Context menu, and then select Dissolve.
3. All changes made to this page are saved automatically.

Tips

• To dissolve an activity, it must have at least one predecessor and one successor relationship.
• To delete an activity and its relationships, see Delete an Activity.