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Customizing a legend

Posted: 01 Jun 2004 08:33 AM PDT

Hi Chuck

Look as http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

Faq 33. What the Gantt Chart legend shows

HTH

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Automatic completion of the Actual work field

Posted: 01 Jun 2004 02:20 AM PDT

Hi,

That is a function, but it is not automatic.
You have to go to Tools, Tracking, Update Project, to find it.
To do it you can also use a button on the tracking toolbar.
But again, that is not automatic, at least not in Project Standard or
Professional
Are you using Project Server?
Do you fill it in manually from sheets or is there a program doing that? I
once wrote such a program for a customer and it indeed put all past work
into Actual Work (but that was progrmamed by me in VBA, it is not an MSP
function).

HTH
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work/duration

Posted: 31 May 2004 12:41 PM PDT

Hi,

My advice is to call it a 4 hours duration task, thus assigning the resource
at 100%. Project will propose a start date as soon as possible but you can
set a deadline and show "Latest Finish" - the task then has to be done
between Start and LKate Finish, and work is not split at all.
HTH

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the 4 hours over a 5 day period which i do not want to happen. I want the
resource to know they have 5 days to complete the task, therefore they can
work on it for 4 hours on one day or 1 hour a day...etc... Is there a
setting where MS does not divide the hours over the duration

task predecessor setting dates

Posted: 31 May 2004 09:21 AM PDT

Hi Mark,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

What you can do is to create a milestone FS between the two tasks. Now
create a special calendar for working hours from, say, 0800 to 0801 only
every work day. Now assign that as a task calendar to the milestone which
can only be scheduled for that one minute per day, thus ensuring that the 8
hr task starts the next full day. If you're unsure of how to do any of
this, please repost.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Mark Etheridge wrote: 

maximum of 5 units produced at any one time

Posted: 31 May 2004 08:47 AM PDT

Hi Rod

this is currently being tracked in excel - the main limitation there is that
a change in one thing doesn't automatically result in a change in everything
else and this, of course, is one of project's strengths. Also if the guy
who is currently managing the excel spreadsheet is asked a question along
the lines of, we've tendered for 5 pulleys and it looks like its going ahead
when could they be delivered given a starting date of july 1 he's got no way
of simulating / producing this information from his excel spreadsheet.

i've proposed a solution along the lines of - each pulley is a separate
project file with the processes required for its manufacture (including
resources and predessors), additionally there is a tender process file and a
post production process file. There is also a resource pool file and the
resources for each part of the process are taken from the resource pool.
I've created a resource called workshop with a maximum availability of 500%.

when a new tender comes in a new project file is created for the order with
the tender process as one phase, each pulley that the order is for as
another phase and at the end the post production phase (these are copied and
pasted in from the "template" files) - so an order with 1 pulley has three
phases and order with 5 pulleys has seven (whether or not the pulley's are
the same type or not). Links are created between the first phase and each
of the pulleys and then end of each pulley and the post production phase and
the file is saved under the tender number.

This new tender file is then inserted into a master file along with the
other tenders & orders-in-progress ... the file is then levelled and all is
well :) when changes are made the project is re-levelled etc.

i feel that this will, for a start, provide a better solution than they
currently have - i am now looking at using VBA to automate the "setting up
phase" where they can choose the type & number of pulleys in each new tender
& project automatically inserts (copies & pastes) the information in with
the tender & post process phase, saves the files & inserts it into the
master - haven't got very far with this as i've not done any serious
programming with project before and i've only spent about 1/2 hr today
playing with vba - hopefully i will get some time over the next couple of
days to do this.

The main "outstanding" issue that i then see is that of the "ramping up"
concept ... i'm wondering if again using VBA i can automate the master file
that when the workshop resource reaches 300% that the working time for the
workshop increases to the 10hrs from the 8hrs automatically until the
resource useage drops below 300% ???

any comments / advice / warnings would be appreciated.

Cheers
JulieD



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fixing the columns in the project view

Posted: 31 May 2004 03:51 AM PDT

If you are using project 2003, you can restrict this by not giving the "manage views" permission to the user whom you dont want to do this.I dont know if this option is available in other versions of project.

Enterprise Global dimmed

Posted: 29 May 2004 09:38 AM PDT

Ahmed --

Refer to the Resolution section of the following link for the directions on
how to set up your login account in Microsoft Project Professional:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Project%20Server%20FAQs/pubnonenterprise.htm

Hope this helps.

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Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
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"We wrote the book on Project Server"


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Custom Field Calc

Posted: 28 May 2004 02:10 PM PDT


Cota,
I better understand what you are trying to do. However, I don't know of
any way to reassign resources without being proactive. One way or
another you will have to address each task whose profile needs to be
changed. No simple formula in a custom field can do that.

The only alternate approach I can see is to develop an algorithm that
emulates the decision process for changing resource assignments. For
example, resource 2 is a premiumn resource that is only needed to
perform tasks that have certain parameters and resource 2 is only
available if a quota of X number of units is met in a certain time
frame. It can get pretty hairy but it is feasible. However, the only
practical way to accomplish this is through VBA and that may turn out to
be more effort than making the assignment adjustments manually.

Not sure if this helps.

John

How to recover a corrupt MS Project 2000 file

Posted: 28 May 2004 11:46 AM PDT

There is a knowledge base article with some help:

318438 PRJ: How to Troubleshoot Corrupted .MPP Project
Files

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318438

 

redundant or nested predecessor links.

Posted: 28 May 2004 10:47 AM PDT

Which fully supports my position (as shown in the second sentence of my
answer).

On Sat, 29 May 2004 21:00:38 -0400, Mark Durrenberger <com>
wrote:
 

export timeline

Posted: 28 May 2004 08:53 AM PDT

Hi liquidgolf ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

liquidgolf wrote: 

Shift Calendar

Posted: 28 May 2004 08:26 AM PDT

Hi Kay,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might also like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project lessons
in the TechTrax ezine, particularly the bit on Shifts in Lesson 12 - Working
Patterns at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate
it before leaving the site, :) Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Kay wrote: 

Resource Group Balance Graph

Posted: 27 May 2004 11:29 PM PDT

Hi Conrad,

Double-click in the graphical part to show Bar Styles.
You can choose the representation of overallocated work and select
availability to be shown.
HTH

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displaying the Work value on the bottom line of the chart. Is there a way
to modify the Graph to add a second value line showing the Overallocation
values or a third line showing the Availability values? 
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