Task without dependency is on the Critical Path

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

In the documentation it states 

'A task that is not on the dependency network cannot have an early schedule or late schedule; hence, it cannot be on the critical path.'

However, when autoscheduling a task that has no dependency is on the critical path.

Environment

All supported releases

Resolution

A task that is not on the dependency network cannot have an early schedule or late schedule; hence, it cannot be on the critical path is a true statement but the same task can qualify to be on the critical path in other ways (0 float, longest duration, etc.). 

The calculation goes through the rules and if the task qualifies to be on the critical path on just one rule then it will be.