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Posted: 24 Sep 2004 09:02 AM PDT

Hello Una,
Have you tried the "Task Note" button in the tool bar (small yellow label) ?

Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP]

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adjusting the row hight

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 08:32 AM PDT

Hi John,
I have 40 tasks that I want to be printed in one page.
Obviousely I can adjust the page in page set up section
but It was easire to have the row hight to be adjusted
lower.
Regards,
Majid 
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Resource only available % of time

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 07:14 AM PDT

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I still can't get it
to work. I've created a Test resouce, let it at 100%,
changed the calendar to only be 8-12. I created a Task,
set the Work hours to 16 (so it will take Test 4 days to
complete the task), entered Test as my resouce and now the
Resource column shows Test[200%] and the Start/Finish
dates cover two days. So, I'm still stuck!
 
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"Advanced" project course?????

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 06:51 AM PDT

Hi Agnus,

On my website is a rather comprehensive paragraph list of the courses I
give; compare it to what people have seen as "basic".
HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker
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Predessor occurs after task

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 02:41 AM PDT

You are reversing yourself. You first said the successor is coming before
the predecessor, in this message you said "the predecessor comes before the
task" which seems to say the task in question comes after the predecessor.
Which is it?

In a Finish-to-Start link, the predecessor normally does finish before the
successor starts, unless there is a lead time in the link or a constraint on
the successor that overrides the normal behavior.

This all assumes you are scheduling from start date forward. A lot changes
when you schedule from finish date backwards and such scheduling is rarely a
good idea even if you have very strong deadlines. You didn't mention which
you are doing.

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


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wrong start date shown

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 11:35 PM PDT

Does it have an Actual Start date?

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how to require resources to work on assignment at same time?

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 11:29 PM PDT

Who knows? I'we listed and supported it as much as I could..

"When a pilot is on holiday, the plane does the flying by itself and the
pilot performs his part of the work when he comes back"


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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Coding iterations

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 06:23 PM PDT

The *same* task cannot take part in multiple iterations. *Similar* tasks
might occur, but a task is a block of work taking place between time A and
time B. It requires both the type of work and the start and end time frame
to define a task. A repetition, with the same sort of work taking place
between time C and time D, a different time frame, is actually a different
task even though it may have the same name. After all, if I have to repeat
the widget waxing I could put substitute a new resource for the second
round. Since the purpose of the plan is to produce a schedule, every
iteration of the tasks must appear individually at the time frame where they
will be scheduled to occur. Otherwise, you have no way to advise the
resources when they will be expected to engage in that particular activity.
This means you really can't put in an iteration as a task with a counter
because that will appear in the schedule at only one spot rather than
recurring for each iteration. The best way might be to make a best-guess,
worst-case scenario of the number of interations likely and enter them all
in the plan. Then when you get closer to the events you can refine your
estimate and add or remove iterations as needed.

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

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Start 10 days After

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 04:44 PM PDT

Hi Josh (and the rest of the gang)

Perhaps we are applying too narrow an interpretation on Josh's question.
I'll be making a bit of an assumption, but here goes:

T2 earliest start is March 1st OR 10 days after the finish of T1 - whichever
is the later. If this is correct, then it can be programmed by applying the
contraint of FNLT of Feb 15th on T1. Then on T2 you'd apply the constraint of
SNET March 1st, complete with the T1+10 days predecessor.

If T1 is scheduled to finish earlier than 10 days before the March 1st, and
your T1 duration extends, Project will extend the bar length up until the end
the specified FNLT date. If T1 duration continues to extend, then the bar
length wil begin to start the task earlier, as per requirements.

If T1 is driven by a predecessor, say T-1, and Rescheduling Uncompleted Work
drives the task durations into conflict, you will then get the warning
message. Moreover, if progress has started on T1, and you have to Reschedule
Uncompleted Work or amend the duration of T1 such that the end-date of T1
goes beyond the FNLT date, you will be given a warning....thereby having T1
drive out the start date of T2.

Overall, it seems to work reasonably well...but like anything else, you have
to keep an eye on it. To make monitoring it a little easier, I inserted a
Deadline arrow on T2.

If I've got this all wrong, please beat me with a spiked club.

James.G

"Sascha Wald" wrote:
 

scheduling query - task with ff dependency starting too late

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 02:13 PM PDT

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your advice, I reached the same conclusion myself and have
successfully scheduled this now by splitting the task into 2.



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Project 2003 - Can a default be set to start each task at 8:00 AM

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 12:21 PM PDT

Hi

i've used a little "trick" occassionally in a project to force a task to
move to a certain time, but i don't know how to do it for every task.

What i've done is create a new calendar that has a working time of 1minute
(8am to 8.01 am)
then when i've had to "force" a task to move say to the next morning i've
added a task (Task A) between this task (Task 2) and it's predecessor (Task
1) with the duration of 1 minute and then assigned the calendar to it ..
this makes the TaskA go to 8am on the next day and then Task 2 follows it. -
you can then change row height & format the row so it can't been seen when
printing - but as i said, it wouldn't be a solution if you had to do it for
every task in the project

Cheers
JulieD




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Sharing Microsoft Projects

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 10:15 AM PDT

Hi,

If your users only need to VIEW the information, try saving your plan as an
HTML and placing in a public folder (email it).

Hope this helps.

Ybriggs

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Start-to-Finish dependancy looks odd in Gantt Chart

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 09:32 AM PDT

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your assistance.
You'll need 3 tasks to test this (I think). Task 1 and Task 2 are normal
Finish-to-Start dependancy. Task 1 needs a duration longer than the
"tuesday" task (Task 3), I set it to 10 days (while Task 3 will be 1 day).
Task 2 then has a Start-to-Finish dependancy with Task 3. You should see
the abnormal behavior with this setup. Task 3 appears to stretch out over
multiple days, even though it has only 1 day duration. Oh and I am setting
up a special "tuesday" calendar that Task 3 uses (Tools->Change Working
Times->New. Then just assign the calendar to Task 3).

After reading your explanation I think you may be seeing the long bar as
well ("The bar is there over Wed and Thur just like it flows over the
weekend for a 2 week task but the task is a 1 day duration task"). I do not
want the bar, I want an arrow (1 day bar, several days arrow going to the
next task). If you do the same thing with all Finish-to-Start dependancies
the 1 day task bar never stretches over 1 day, even if the next task doesn't
start for several days afterwords.

If you want an explanation as to why I need my project set up like this:
We have a project with several Phases (6 to be exact), each with a main
Construction Task. The Construction tasks need to happen one right after
the next (standard Finish-to-Start dependancies). However, before each
Construction phase, the phase must be approved in a commision meeting (which
only takes place on tuesdays). This meeting needs to happen just soon
enough that the Construction phase will be able to start immediately after
the previous construction phase ends. I want the project Gantt Chart to
accurately show that this task only occurs on a Tuesday and is complete on
that day, but I want the dependancies so that it moves if Construction
phases finish early or late.

Hope that explains my problem better.
Ryan


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Data Access 2003 PJDB.htm

Posted: 23 Sep 2004 08:04 AM PDT

Yes 2003 version....
but like you say stay calm, read, read and reread the PJDB.htm.




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incorrect value in summary tasks for the baseline cost fields.

Posted: 22 Sep 2004 11:57 PM PDT

Hello,
I think it's the normal behavior of a baselined data :
The summary was baselined at $10000 for instance with 3 children tasks. You
delete a children task which was baselined at $2000.
The summary baseline stays at $10000 but Project displays a Variance of -
2000 .

Anyway, you can baseline the project a second time and clear the variance.

Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP]


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Having to access the Web for help with MS Project is a pain and a.

Posted: 22 Sep 2004 04:02 PM PDT

Hi aggravated,

You can ask Project (and other Office 2003) products to
search the local help files first instead of going out to
the web.
Go to help menu and choose "Microsoft Project Help." In
the Project Help task pane, click the "Online Content
Settings..." hyperlink. Remove the check from "Search
online content when connected." You will still have the
option of searching online if you don't find the answer
you need searching the local help files.

Hope this helps.
Julie 
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updates to the local