How does one copy a task or set of tasks within the same project?  I do this in MS Project all the time when I have the same subtasks in different parts of my projects.  How can I do this in Daptiv without creating a lot of little projects using templates?

Thanks,

~John

You can't.  Task data entry is terrible in this product.  It cumbersome and time-consuming.    

Yes you can.  To copy a task, open your project schedule from the Gantt view.  Hold the Ctrl or Shift key, move your cursor on top of the task number, press and hold the left mouse key and drag the task where you want in the task in the Task column.  Moving individual tasks is a snap.  My advice for massive block moves is to use ProjectTransit.  You can transit a current schedule to a blank schedule in MS Project, make your moves, transit it back and then break the transit. 

 I think I agree with the other poster to my question.. This product needs improvement in this area.

 I can move tasks, but when I go to copy them it doesn't work.. , I get a menu that says "Move Task", "Copy Task", and "Cancel".. I choose "Copy Task" and all I get is a move not a Copy/Paste.  Is there a "Paste Task" anywhere.

 I guess I'll try the ProjectTransit utility.. Does that work well?

John Filicetti:

Yes you can.  To copy a task, open your project schedule from the Gantt view.  Hold the Ctrl or Shift key, move your cursor on top of the task number, press and hold the left mouse key and drag the task where you want in the task in the Task column.  Moving individual tasks is a snap.  My advice for massive block moves is to use ProjectTransit.  You can transit a current schedule to a blank schedule in MS Project, make your moves, transit it back and then break the transit. 

The question is how to duplicate or copy a task or set of tasks and insert the copied tasks -- including description and detail -- into the schedule, not simply move them from one place to another. This is not possible now even for a single task, unless I am missing something.

My company frequently does projects with the same basic set of tasks done by different groups.

Example: Develop/Test/UAT Module A tasks, Develop/Test/UAT Module B tasks. Each would have the same basic set of tasks but be assigned to different development resources.

In our case we may have 5 or 6 different components developed in parallel, with a combination integration phase at the end of the the project. Having to enter each set manually is very time consuming. Difficult to justify the expense (both of adoption/training/support costs and software cost) of Daptiv when in fact we will still need to use MS Project to efficiently manage our work. I am in charge of adoption at our company (and a big Daptiv fan in general) and this issue is pretty tough to explain.