FreeSlack Element

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The actual amount of time that a task can be delayed without delaying any successor tasks. If a task has zero successor tasks, free slack is the amount of time a task can be delayed without delaying the entire project.

<FreeSlack>
  IntegerValue
</FreeSlack>

Parent Elements

Task

Occurrences

Minimum: 0 Maximum: 1

Example

The following example shows a task can be delayed by two days, if the work day is eight hours (2 days x 8 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x 10 tenths/minute = 9600 tenths). The actual slack time (FreeSlack) available in this case is the same as the total slack.

<Task>
   . . .
   <FreeSlack>9600</FreeSlack>
   <TotalSlack>9600</TotalSlack>
   . . .
</Task>

See Also

Concepts

Task Elements and XML Structure

XML Schema for the Tasks Element