Recurring Tasks

LiquidPlanner does not currently have a recurring task feature, but here is one technique you can use to model that.  This approach requires that you create several tasks (use add multiple to do that quickly),  and then set staggered delay until dates on individual tasks.  For example: 

In this example, we have 10 hours of business process review work that needs to be done each week for three weeks.  We don’t really care exactly when it happens in that week, only that time needs to be allocated to the process review work.  What’s key is that the remaining availability be used on lower priority tasks. 

We created a high priority packaged called Business Process Review, and within that we created one task for each week's  process review work.  Each task is delayed to the start of the appropriate week.  You don't have to nest these tasks in a package, but it's nice that you can collapse the package for reporting and use it for commenting.  

Note that the lower priority Brochure Project tasks are stretching out, as indicated by the flow-around graphic in their schedule bars.  This tells you that the Brochure Project tasks will temporarily pause when a higher priority process review task is ready to go.  As you'd expect, the Brochure Project tasks take longer overall than they would if they weren't  getting interrupted.