Intelligent task Deactivation In Project Scheduling Application

A project management application is provided in which an active or not active task state for each task may be displayed in a user interface. The active or not active task state would indicate whether the task is inactive or active. If the state of a task is active, the project management application may treat the active task as a normal task in the project plan. If the state of a task is inactive, the project management application may treat the inactive task as having no effect and may ignore the inactive task for scheduling purposes in the project plan. The project management application may maintain and display information of the inactive tasks in the project plan. The project management application may display the inactive tasks in a different style from the active tasks in the user interface.