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couple of rookie questions Microsoft Project

couple of rookie questions

Posted: 04 Jul 2004 05:25 PM PDT

 

Forget it I figured it out.

Office Update

Posted: 04 Jul 2004 05:07 PM PDT

Hi Mike

i've only got project 2003 on this machine so would be surprised if this
wasn't the case :)

Cheers
JulieD

"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
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What is name of files providing Project VBA Help?

Posted: 02 Jul 2004 11:33 AM PDT

Jack,

Terrific. I was searching for *.hlp files ... didn't occur to me (as I
slap my head!) to check for *.chm files. Thanks very much.

rms



JackD wrote: 

Calculate % duration

Posted: 02 Jul 2004 11:33 AM PDT

That's what I was saying - in MS Project "% Complete" IS "% Duration" and is
based on the duration worked compared to the total duration required. %
Work Complete and % Physical Complete are two other fields, completely
different. Perhaps I'm failing to see what you're trying to do here. Are
you trying to compute the % complete that should have been reached by a
certain date in order to compare it to the % complete that actually was
reached by that date as an indicator if the project is on time? Not trying
to be stubborn, I'm just concerned that you're coming up with a fancy number
that will be useless or even misleading in terms of actually managing the
project. If I'm guessing right as to what you're actually hoping to
accomplish, that is, getting an indicator of whether the project is on time,
the SPI, Schedule Performance Index, in the Earned Value fields does exactly
that simply by displaying the field and you can have it calculated for any
arbitrary status date, not just the current date.

Summary tasks are a different critter from regular tasks in that much of
their data is derived on the fly from their component sub-tasks rather than
being stored in a field. In order to get your number fields to come out for
the summaries, in the custom fields dialog turn on the "roll up to summary"
radio button. The problem with your concept for summaries is that there
values are not straight sums. I have a summary task that has 5 subtasks
with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 day durations starting Monday. They are all linked
start to start and are all scheduled to start the same day. The sum of the
durations is 15 days yet the duration of the summary task is 5 days. The
start of the summary is the earliest starting subtask while its finish is
its latest ending subtask. It's now Thursday. What should your calculated
"% duration" field show and what is its signifigance whether the project is
on time since it doesn't take into account whther or not work that was
scheduled has actually been accomplished?

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MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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"ChrisO" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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posting is misleading. All I want is a "% duration" column, but my problem
is with the summary level tasks where "start" and "end" seem to come out as
zero. For summary tasks do you know what variables I should access to obtain
the start and end dates displayed on the Gantt chart view? 
Date]-[Start])/([Finish]-[Start]))*100) 
to find a setting or similar to get MS Project to do this automatically
using an existing field. 
using custom fields which works at task level but not for summary level,
where start and finish come out as 0. 
anything. 

Gantt chart disappeared

Posted: 02 Jul 2004 11:19 AM PDT

What sometimes happens is that you accidently drag the border between the
task table window on the left and the Gantt timescale window on the right
all the way to the right-hand side of the screen. Move your mouse slowly to
the right of the screen and look for it to change into the 2-pointed arrow,
Click and drag to the left and see what happens.

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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Don" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Summary Fields not Re-calculating correctly.

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 10:05 PM PDT

Luis,

Thanks for posting, but I have to say I can't see the problem occurring
on my Project 2002. Exactly what is the custom field type/name you are
using?

rms




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View Resource Assignments

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 12:00 PM PDT


Janet,
Ok, sorry I don't know anything about Web Access. Hopefully someone else
can help.

John

Easy Question: Gantt bar split by . . .

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 10:30 AM PDT

Hi Jeremy. Better to send me the project - zip it up and email it to me.


Mike Glen
Project MVP


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the working calendar (1 day = 4.8 hours) and I changed the default working
day to be from 12:12 pm to 5 pm to force the 4.8 hour day. Let me know if
you need more info, but this is the only task doing it. If you want, I can
email screen shots or whatever you would like. 
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with 1 
Tuesday. 

synching predecessor and successor dates based on F-S link

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 09:54 AM PDT

Ah yes. Forgot that one...
Mark


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comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by
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looping task relationship

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 07:31 AM PDT

Mark,
Thanks for your reply. After making this query, I started remembering
how I did this years ago. Your solution is definitely worakable, but
part of the problem is that the developers are actually working on
some of the code while the testers are testing, and vice versa. So
doing a series of tasks as you suggest leaves availability in their
schedules they don't really have.
What we did before was to give the 2 tasks a SS+lag relationship, to
reflect that test starts a few days, usually, after coding. Most of
the time, they end at nearly the same time. Since you can only have
one relationship between tasks in MS Project, you can't use a link to
reflect this. Instead, I copy the finish date of coding and "paste
link" it into testing. This way, if the process takes longer than
planned, I just add duration to coding and testing extends out
accordingly.
BTW, this also avoids cluttering up the schedule with a plethora of
code/test tasks, hard to tell apart from one another unless you also
put in some text saying which code/test cycle this is. That in itself
can be a lot of data entry.
There is always many different ways of working around such problems in
Project. Am always interested in other's solutions.

David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting


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Project server2003 trial

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 04:13 AM PDT

Have you taken the EPM tour at http://www.ms-answers.com/epm/home.aspx?

Regards

Mark Brownlee
Orbisoft Task Manager 2005 Support
mbrownlee -AT- Orbisoft.com
www.orbisoft.com

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"Roger Knight" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Poor performance during tasks adding

Posted: 01 Jul 2004 01:30 AM PDT

Hi,
I am going to experiment your solution and it seems quite
powerful...but the database structure seems quite complicated, so I'm
reading carefully the "pjdb.htm" file. I wonder if and where I can
find routines already written in order to add tasks or anything else
to speed up my work. Any suggestion? Thanks for your precious help!
Gabriele

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Extracting MSP_TIMEPHASED_DATA via ODBC connection to SQL Server

Posted: 30 Jun 2004 06:57 PM PDT

Hi,

I haven't ever finished extracting from the database because I felt the
calendar data needed to be taken into account, so gave up on it and used
other solutions. Either creating a copy of the data or using oledb from .mpp
files, or when using Project Server: using the MSP_VIEW tables.

Why is hourly refresh no good, especially if the schedule is only updated
once a week or less?

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New user needing advice

Posted: 30 Jun 2004 06:18 PM PDT

Hi,

I'm not an expert on Server but to my knowledge, no.
Several people can update a project (with or without Server) but not
simultaneously.
HTH

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Creating a shift work calendars

Posted: 30 Jun 2004 06:16 PM PDT

Hi Tony,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project lessons in
the TechTrax ezine, particularly Lesson 12 - Working Pattern, 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


"Tony Shoebridge" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Estimated Time to Complete (ETC) in MSP = Estimated Duration?

Posted: 30 Jun 2004 09:38 AM PDT

Hi,
You can find it in the "Remaining cost" field.

Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP]
PragmaSoft ® - Paris

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