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Will not let me save formula in customized fields Microsoft Project

Will not let me save formula in customized fields Microsoft Project

Will not let me save formula in customized fields

Posted: 24 Aug 2004 11:04 AM PDT

Hi,

Sorry to pop in but it occurred to me that it sounds as if you are trying to
type a formula directly into a field in a view. Forgive me if that is not
the case.
If it is...formulas are entered in Tools, Customize, fields
HTH

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Adding conditional format to fields in Project 2000??

Posted: 24 Aug 2004 09:54 AM PDT

Hi Ron,

You were on the right track.
Did you take a baseline and compare current schedule to baseline?

HTH

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Running a macro on a set of collapsed tasks

Posted: 24 Aug 2004 09:33 AM PDT

Thanks to both Jan and Mark! (Or should I say "hartelijk bedankt" to
Jan??)

My code does go through each task in activeproject.tasks (as well as
checking for blank tasks so that they're skipped), so I'll have to see
what else could possibly prevent the macro from "reading" the info in
the collapsed tasks.

One theory down, thousands to go!

Thanks very much,
Phyl


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Semi-urgent help! - Event 'calculation' problem

Posted: 24 Aug 2004 06:35 AM PDT

You're welcome, Brian - you got it! :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


A Nony Mouse wrote: 

convert Gantt chart to PDF file

Posted: 24 Aug 2004 04:57 AM PDT

Hello,
Try PDF 995. It is freeware. 
to save as a PDF  
unfortunately the other person  

% Completion question

Posted: 23 Aug 2004 07:16 PM PDT

You'll need use a text field to hold your results with a function to convert
your calculated percentage from numeric to text and append the "%" character
to the result.

FYI, if you have 100 sites to convert and have done 37, you can use the "%
Physical Complete" field to record progress at 37% if you don't mind
figuring the percentage by hand.

I would suggest you think a bit more about your plan's structure and your
method of recording progress. In terms of monitoring whether you are on
time and within budget the breakdown you've outlined and your method of
recording progress won't help you actually manage the work very much.

Saying that 17% of the sites in Subregion 1 and 42 % of the sites in
Subregion 2 has been converted doesn't tell you WHEN Region 1 will finish,
whether you're ahead of or behind schedule, or how much it will cost.

Consider ... what if the circumstances of the installations are such that
the conversion of each site in Group1 only takes 1 day but Group 2's sites
are much more complex and take 10 days each? The 33% of the sites in Group
1 represent only 3 days of work while the 11% of Group 2's represents 30
days and it has cost you 10 times as much for the resources to do Group 2's
11% than it did to do Group 1's. Thus Subregion 1 is really NOT at 17%
complete in terms of the total time and cost required to do all the work.
Rather it actually is only 12% complete using my example numbers because you
have worked a total of 33 days out of a required total of 279 days.

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Automatic updating of external links

Posted: 23 Aug 2004 10:05 AM PDT

Hi Michelle,

Yes it definitely makes sense except that I still can't see how a milestone
can be "tracking a % complete status"; the milestone will only show 100%
complete when you set it to 100% complete explicitly, its % completion is by
no means calculated from other tasks
HTH

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can't indent/outdent or show/hide subtasks

Posted: 23 Aug 2004 07:03 AM PDT

Sort by ID again (being careful not to select Permenantly Renumber).


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Work vs Duration

Posted: 23 Aug 2004 06:23 AM PDT

Yes and no

I agree that working with duration and deadlines makes sense. I do not
endorse the concept of % complete unless there are discrete countable
events - in another post, I indicated that if you were digging a 100 foot
trench and had dug 50 feet I would gladly give you 50% complete. However
most "white collar" work does not have discrete countable events (like
"Design" work) so percent complete is way too subjective... I'd encourage
"Done/non done" reporting and report out slippage against major
milestones...

HTH
Mark


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project xml schema advice

Posted: 23 Aug 2004 02:59 AM PDT



"Rod Gill" wrote: 

Thanks very much. Will do.

Jason