Change Priority

When a project is created, its tasks are assigned a priority by default. If you have permission to do so, you can change the priority of all the tasks within a project from the project list, or of individual tasks from the task list.

Different “bands” are created and written to the configuration file. Bands' lower and upper limits specify the number of tasks that a project must have that so that the project tasks get a particular priority. For example, the following information exists by default in the configuration file regarding tasks bands: 10, 20, 50, 100. This means that the existing bands are 0-9, 10-19, 20-49, 50-99, 100 – no upper limit. There are as many priorities as there are bands, and these are by default 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Priority 1 corresponds to the band 0-9, priority 2 to the band 10-19, so on. Higher priorities have lower absolute numbers, therefore tasks with priority 1 are the highest priority, i.e., will be processed first. Therefore, if a project has 8 tasks, all of its tasks will have priority 1. If a project has 21 tasks, all of its tasks will have priority 3.

To change the priority of all tasks within a project

From Assignments > Projects , click the project check box to select it.
Click Change Priority.
In the dialog box that appears, select the new priority from the menu.
Click OK.

All tasks in the project are now assigned the new priority.

To change the priority of an individual task

From Assignments > Projects , click a project to open the associated task list.
Click at least one task check box to select it.
Choose More Options > Change Priority .
In the dialog box that appears, select the new priority from the menu.
Click OK.

The selected tasks are now assigned the new priority.