Waiting for paint to dry

OmniPlan
#1

Hi,

I have a few tasks in my project like “paint shed”. Doing the painting will require 4 hours of effort from a Painter resource, and then 12 hours where we wait for the shed to dry. At a high level, should I break this out into two tasks, “Paint Shed” and “Wait for Shed to Dry” (assigning the Wait task to a new abstract waiting resource), or is there a way to accomplish this with a single task?

My main goal is that the Leveling tool correctly moves these long poll tasks up in priority.

#2

I would support the 2 tasks route, for 2 reasons:

  1. It makes the succession of activities clear (especially helpful if someone else has to see and understand the plan)
  2. It ensures that the resource for Paint Shed (task 1) is released when the painting is done
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