Milestones

External and Regular Users on all account types can create milestones.

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• Overview
• Important Information
• Create a Milestone Task

Overview

Milestones are tasks that are scheduled for one day and have no duration. Milestones are used as reference points to mark a major event or a branching decision point in a project.

Important Information

• Milestone tasks are displayed as flags 1 on the Gantt Chart
• Dependent milestones do not get automatically rescheduled if tasks in the chain get rescheduled. However, the dependency chain will turn orange 2 if a task in the dependency chain gets rescheduled to start or finish after the milestone.
• Wrike comes with a pre-built “Conflicts Monitor” widget. The Conflicts Monitor displays all milestones in your account which are shared with you and which have scheduling conflicts.

Create a Milestone Task

1. Open the task you want to convert to a milestone or create a new task.
2. Click in the schedule date section of the task (if the task is currently scheduled for dates you will see those dates displayed).
3. Select “Milestone” on the pop-up that appears.
4. Select the date which the milestone should be scheduled for.
5. Press “Ok”.

Quick Tip: You can also convert an existing task to a milestone task from the Gantt Chart. To do this: click on the task you want to convert and choose “Convert into milestone” on the pop-up that appears.