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project 2002: timescale label setting does not persist when zooming Microsoft Project

project 2002: timescale label setting does not persist when zooming Microsoft Project

project 2002: timescale label setting does not persist when zooming

Posted: 20 Oct 2004 02:20 AM PDT

Hi Alex,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

It's always been thus. A work around it to create a series of views set as
you want them and then just change the view. Better still, do it by
recording macros and put them on a tool button.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #16 - Macros , at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate the article 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

alex wrote: 

Assignments, Usage and Custom Formula Fields

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 09:49 PM PDT

Hi Mike,

Sound good, but how do you do that? When I try to customize a field I am
asked whether it is a task or a resource field, and the assignments fields
in the Usage views do not react.

HTH
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Can I indicate a crucial end date across a range of concurrent pr.

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 05:13 PM PDT

Further to Mike's suggestion: I have attempted that previously....but the
problem is that you are quite limited on the length of a single line (using
P2000), thus in order to get the line all the way down the timescale, you
needed to join a number of lines....which turned out to be a right pain! When
initially drawing the line, on-screen, it seemed to allow you to draw to any
desired length. The single-length limitation only became apparent when you
wanted to print the Gantt Chart.

James.G

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Assigning Single Resource for Multiple Tasks

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 01:11 PM PDT

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply. First when I posted the same question with the
subject "over allocation when assigning a resource to multiple tasks" it gave
me an error saying it was not posted. So I reposted the question with
different heading. Sorry for posting same question twice. I really appreciate
your time.

When I did the leveling in Project 2000 I could not achieve what I wanted.
But when I tried in Project 2003 it worked. Thanks once again for your help.

How do I find out the names of the entire icons within each corre.

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:23 PM PDT

Right click in the toolbar area or chose the View Toolbars menu. At the
bottom of the list of toolbars select Customize. On it's Options tab make
sure the checkbox "show screentips in toolbars" is turned on. Then just
hover your mouse on a toolbar icon and its name will pop up.


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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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Overallocation when assigning a resource to multiple task

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 09:51 AM PDT

Hi,

That means you gave some input invalidating it; it works pefectly (and the
same way as in 2003) in 2000.
HTH

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Resources less than calendar hours but still overallocated.

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 08:43 AM PDT

Hello Chris,
I tried again and everything works well for me.
Could you send me an excerpt of your project with the 2 tasks ?

Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP]

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Varying % of Resource

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 03:33 AM PDT

Would it be naïve to suggest that a task be broken down into subtasks based
on the type of work required? For example, if resource A is needed at 50%
for 1 week, 25% for 2 weeks and 50% for 1 week during a 4 week project, I
would analyse this as three subtasks,each of which has a deliverable that
triggers the different work levels by resource A.

Ken


On 10/19/04 6:59 AM, in article phx.gbl,
"JulieD" <net.au> wrote:
 

problem assigning resources

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:52 AM PDT

Sorry, Project's leveling just doesn't work that way. It never
redistributes work between the resources in a task nor does its leveling
behaviour care whether the resources have equal or unequal amounts of work
in the task. When you assign 3 resources and level, Project will treat it
in one of two ways. Either the resources work independently of each other
so you turn on the "leveling can adjust assignments ..." and Project will
adjust the work of the one resource independently of the other, slipping his
work while keeping the others as they were. Duration will then be from when
the earliest starting resource starts work until the latest finishing
resource wraps up his bit. Or the resources have to work together as a
team - in that case, you turn off the check box for "leveling can adjust
assignments ..." and if any single resource has to be slipped to resolve an
overallocation, all of them are slipped together by the required amount.

These two cases should take care of 90% of the situations. For the rest,
such as you're describing, you'll need to go into the task usage view and
manually redistribute the work between the resources at the end of the task.
After leveling you'll see R1 with work hours extending beyond where R2 & R3
are shown finished. See how many days R1 continues on his own after the
other two leave, take 2/3 of the excess off of R1 and give half of that to
R2 and the other half to R3 right after the last day they're currently
scheduled. That way R2 & R3 will be extended equally and R1 will be been
shortened by the same amount to the point their schedules come together and
all three end at the same time. Your total work will still be 600 but it
will no longer be distributed evenly, R2 and R3 doing more and R1 doing
less.
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"Andrea Racca" <it> wrote in message
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Customize toolbars with special items

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:23 AM PDT

Hi Erkki,

We need to discover whether your project is at fault, whether it is Project
at fault, or whether it's your PC. Does the symptom occur with other
projects on this PC? Does it occur with this project on other PCs? Does it
occur with other projects on other PCs?

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Erkki wrote: 

how do I plot progress on a graph

Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:15 AM PDT

Hi JulieD

Thanks very much that worked a treat

"JulieD" wrote:
 

Custom Number Formatting

Posted: 18 Oct 2004 08:07 AM PDT

Thanks - I didn't think so, but thought I'd ask anyway. I've already used up
the custom cost fields, so they were not available. I was trying to produce
some custom reports, and wanted to display some total values for certain
columns within a filtered set of tasks, but since text values do not roll up,
I am forced to do the calculations in a custom number field, then display the
number in a custom text field formatted correctly.

"John" wrote:
 

Is there a way to protect single cells or a column?

Posted: 18 Oct 2004 07:25 AM PDT

If you're talking about Excel, select the cells where you wish to ALLOW
changes, select Format Cells in the menu, select the Protection tab, and
clear the checkbox for the "locked" property. Now in the Tools menu, select
Protection, Protect sheet, and turn on protection for the whole worksheet.
Changes will be disallowed for all cells except those where you have
explicitly cleared the locked property so as to allow changes to them.

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"John Patterson" <John microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Blocking field for usage

Posted: 18 Oct 2004 03:19 AM PDT

Unfortunately, Project happily allows you to break many "rules" and there's
no way to enforce them. That's one of the reasons I try to focus on
principles of PM rather than software skills in my MS Project training
courses. There's a huge difference in orientation between a class on
"Introduction to MS Project" and one on "Introduction to Project Management
Using MS Project."


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


"Riko Wichmann" <desy.de> wrote in message
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Separate total personnel and material cost?

Posted: 18 Oct 2004 02:47 AM PDT


Adrian,
I see a couple of choices. Labor cost is pretty straightforward, Work
hours X Pay Rate and it is calculated in the Cost field. Material cost
can often be simply listed as a single sum (assuming it is not time
related). The best way to enter this value is in the Fixed Cost field.
It can be accrued at the beginning, end or prorated over the Task
Duration.

If you need to see Labor cost separately, simply create a custom cost
field with the labor formula (you will need to either manually enter the
Pay Rate in a separate custom field or use a macro to populate a field
with the Pay Rate since it is a Resource field and not available
directly in Task views). The Fixed Cost field will show non-time related
material cost and the normal Cost field will show the total cost for
both labor and non-labor. Set up a view table with all three field side
by side and you will have a complete breakout.

If you do have time related material (e.g. fuel cost), I suggest you
create a separate sister task to the labor. They can be linked with a
Start-to-start relationship and given the same Duration (or you could
even create a hammock task in case the Duration changes with labor
assignments).

Hope this helps.
John

Week #'s in calendar

Posted: 15 Oct 2004 02:04 PM PDT

I'm unaware of any way to adjust that. Different organizations define their
fiscal week 1 differently. For some it's the week containing Jan 1, for
others it's the first full week in the year, for other's it's the week
containing Jan 1 unless that week contains less than 4 days in the new year
and then it becomes the following week, and there are probably other schemes
as well. As far as I know, with Project it's the first full week in the
fiscal year and there's no other options available. In defense of that,
since Project's basic job is to come up with a task schedule to be worked by
the resources and an estimated budget for the same it's not usually that
crucial an issue. Most people ( ie, your resources) use the normal civil
calendar in organizing their daily lives (even if their accounting
department uses the fiscal calendar). Since it's not an accounting
application anyway, does it really matter if the cost estimate of a resource
doing a task of December 29th gets charged against fiscal 2004 or fiscal
2005 in the project's budget estimates? When the work is done and the
actual timecards, invoices, checks, etc are massaged by the actual
accounting programs you use for general ledger, etc, they're going to get
apportioned to the right bucket anyway. Project's numbers, even actuals,
are really only estimates to a close approximation at best. In other words,
don't worry about it, a year from now no one will know the difference or
likely care one way or the other <grin>.

Rule 1 - don't sweat the small stuff. Rule 2 - most things are small stuff.
<grin>

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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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