You can use the Create Tasks page to set the outline levels for your new tasks. This feature enables you to insert a complete task hierarchy (a set of summary tasks and their subordinate tasks) into the workplan at one time.

The first task entered must always have an Outline Level of 0 or 1 to indicate how it relates to the selected task on the Update Tasks page. If the first task's outline level is 0, it will become a peer of the task that was selected on the Update Tasks page. If the first task's outline level is 1, it will be subordinate to the selected task.

To understand how this outline level rule works, consider the following example:

1. You have a workplan composed of five tasks, numbered one through five: Task 1, Task 2, Task 3, Task 4, and Task 5. Each of these tasks is at the outline level of 1.

2. Now you must create more tasks and insert them beneath Task 2. Begin by selecting Task 2 on the Update Tasks page and selecting Create Tasks.

3. Create five more tasks identified by letter, with outline values as follows: Task A, Outline: 0; Task B, Outline: 1; Task C, Outline: 2; Task D, Outline: 1; and Task E, Outline 0.

4. Because Task A's outline level is 0, the system inserts it into the workplan as a peer of Task 2. The resulting workplan structure looks like this:

• Task 1

• Task 2

• Task A

  • Task B

    • Task C

  • Task D

• Task E

• Task 3

• Task 4

• Task 5

If Task A had an outline level of 1, the system would have made the entire task structure subordinate to Task 2.