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By default, micro tasks are created instead of macro tasks when using the create construction task button. A macro task needs to be selected in order to add a micro task to the schedule.

Adds a construction micro task to the currently selected macro task. Other Task Types also create micro tasks, by default.

When a micro task is created it is created as the child of the selected task. This allows users to easily understand the relationship between the micro schedule and the macro schedule.

By default, the user cannot edit the macro schedule, Task names and dates of macro tasks appear grey instead of black. This enables the user to easily distinguish between the micro tasks and macro tasks.

When a XML update is made micro tasks update start and end dates based on the offset that is introduced to an associated macro task with the XML update. If the 4D Setting, Scale Micro Task Duration is enabled micro tasks will also scale their durations when a schedule updated introduces a change to the duration of the macro task.

When a schedule update is made to ‘Macrotask’ that changes the start date ‘Microtask 1’, ‘Microtask 2’ and ‘Microtask 3’ will all have their start dates adjusted by the same amount.

There are two ways to create multiple micro tasks linked together

Creates multiple micro tasks linked together in a chain as children of the currently selected task.

Micro tasks can also be created separately and manually linked together using predecessor and successor relationships.