HCL TECHNOLOGIES ABOUT US PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS RESOURCES CONTACT US

Home
HCL Marketing Operations User Guide
HCL® Marketing Operations is a tool for enterprise planning, collaboration, and workflow that provides a complete solution for the needs of marketers. You can use Marketing Operations to get a comprehensive and holistic view of all marketing projects across your company.
Workflows
To help you complete different workflow-related efforts, the Workflow tab offers different view modes and an edit mode.
Workflows organize the tasks, approval tasks, stages, and milestones for each project. Workflows measure the time that is spent on each part of the project and the people who are assigned to work on it.
When you enter or change the date for a task, the system calculates other dates that are based on your entry. It uses an internal algorithm to bidirectionally calculate the dates of dependencies, starting with the cell where you entered the date.
If a workflow has a locked task, and you change the date of a task that is located above that task, you receive a warning when you calculate date dependencies.

Calculating date dependencies above a locked task

If a workflow has a locked task, and you change the date of a task that is located above that task, you receive a warning when you calculate date dependencies.

About this task

To clarify this task, the procedure that follows assumes:

Task 1.8 is locked.
You need to change the duration of task 1.5 from five days to 10 days.
All tasks depend on the previous task.

Procedure

Open the workflow for editing, and change the duration on task 1.5 from five days to 10 days.
Click the Date Dependency Calculation icon () next to the end date of task 1.5.
The system displays a warning message, saying you cannot recalculate through the locked row.
Click the start date of task 1.8
Click the Date Dependency Calculation icon.

Results

The system calculates the dates below the locked task.