As soon as you have chosen a particular date settings for a model, you can study how these work e.g., by performing a 窶弉uicktest窶 on some date nodes.
We illustrate this by considering a very simple example with just two date nodes called 窶廣ctivity 1窶 and 窶廣ctivity 2窶 respectively.
The time scale is specified as:
窶｢ Year/Month/Date: 1996/1/1
窶｢ Duration unit: 窶廛ays窶
Activity 1 is a project activity that is scheduled to start on 窶徼ime zero窶 according to the chosen scale, i.e., on January 1., 1996.
Activity 2 is an activity that starts as soon as Activity 1 is finished.
The local values of the date nodes usually represent the durations of the nodes. In our example we assume that both nodes are deterministic. Hence, the local values are equal to the local factors of the nodes which we assume to be:
窶｢ 18.3 days
窶｢ 6.6 days
for Activity 1 and 2 respectively.
This 窶彷inish-to-start窶 dependence between Activity 1 and 2 is modeled by adding an edge from Activity 1 to Activity 2, and choosing 窶彜ingle窶 and 窶彜um窶 as algorithm and operator respectively for Activity 2. The output value of Activity 2 will then be the sum of the output value from Activity 1 and the local value of Activity 2.
