Rescheduling in Asta Enterprise
If you are using Asta Enterprise, you may have access rights to reschedule the whole group project or project, part of the project or none of the project. Before trying to perform a reschedule, contact your System Administrator and find out what access rights you have for rescheduling.
When you perform a reschedule in Asta Enterprise, Asta Powerproject checks to see which objects have changed, locks the objects that need updating, then updates the objects for which it has obtained an edit lock. A message is displayed if Asta Powerproject cannot obtain edit locks on any objects that need updating.
The reschedule always calculates the correct positions for tasks that have been included in the reschedule, even if it cannot update the tasks. For example, if the reschedule cannot obtain an edit lock on a predecessor task, the successors to that task will still be placed in the correct position as if the predecessor task had been updated.
Similarly, if you reschedule a task but you do not have access rights to view its predecessor tasks, the reschedule assumes that the predecessor task is already in the correct position.
Rescheduling automatically in Asta Enterprise
Although it is possible to configure Asta Enterprise to reschedule automatically, this is not recommended except in small, simple projects. If you do enable automatic rescheduling in Asta Enterprise, you may experience performance and locking issues as Asta Powerproject performs a reschedule each time any user who has enabled automatic rescheduling makes an edit that results in one or more tasks being moved or resized.
If you do wish to enable automatic rescheduling in Asta Enterprise, for the best performance it is recommended that you configure Asta Powerproject to reschedule the current view or branch only, rather than the entire programme of projects. If you are working in a multi-project Asta Enterprise environment, rescheduling only the current branch automatically may be the best option: if you are the only person working in a particular branch of the programme, configuring Asta Powerproject to reschedule only the current branch automatically will reschedule the branch in which you are working without affecting the other branches of the programme.