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Selective hiding of calculated field Microsoft Project

Selective hiding of calculated field

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 12:55 PM PDT

That was what I saw in Google - My thanks.

"JackD" wrote:
 

Project has a mind of its own!

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 10:26 AM PDT

Hi Lamby74,

Just to add on what Mike has stated, I would also advise learning about &
understanding the algebraic equation that MS Project uses when adding
resources to a task (Units * Duration = Work). You also should understand
that the "Task Type" (Fixed Work, Duration, or Units), which you may have
noticed already, has some input to how hours may be distributed for a
resource.

The "effort driven" check box only affects resource's assigned hours when
adding more than one resource to a task (or unassigning a resource). For
example, if Effort Driven is checked on a task where resource A has 40 hours
and you add another resource, the 40 hours is then split between both
resources. When un-checked, the both resources would have 40 hours assigned.

My advice is to definitely check into some training if you are going to use
the tool. In particular, look for a course that has a process around using
the tool rather than just "point and click" training so that you can learn
how the tool works rather than just how to fill out some forms. Since
Project isn't as user-friendly as say, Excel (if you want to call it that),
training will reduce the amount of frustration yourself and others in your
company *will* have with the tool. That being said, I think it's a very
powerful tool when used properly.

Good luck!

Ian Coletti, PMP
Edwards Industries, LLC

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

WGSetup.exe

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 09:52 AM PDT

Thanks, I found the file in the Program File directory. 
CD - or contact 
information can be seen at 
for 

Report - Custom Fields

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 09:13 AM PDT

Ok, I see now. Although I can't explain the thinking behind that, it seems
rediculous to me to allow the selection of many of those fields to be placed
in a Heading! The details in your Text1 field will only appear in the print
out if it is shown in the table. If you insert a Text1 column in your Entry
table in the Gantt Chart view, that should then show up in the Print
Preview. Project cannot obviously print all the contents of all the Text1
data in its heading!


Mike Glen
Project MVP



Diane wrote: 

archiving a project

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 08:19 AM PDT

Have you tried setting the files to be "hidden" (using the typical Windows
File Properties)
Another alternative is to change the file suffix to something like .oldmpp,
then it should not come up in the file list unless the user is looking at
"all filetypes"
Another alternative is to zip the files into an archive. This saves space
and avoids confusion but adds an extra step when you want to look at them.

-Jack

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"#####" Column Width Error in Reports

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 06:08 AM PDT

Edit the margin on the priint preview or the page set-up.
Change the page size. or edit the size on screen.

A pain but

 
the 
showing 

Duration without decimal digits

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 04:41 AM PDT

Hi,

And after that?
AFAIK, there is no option for this.
The workaround is to use a formula that displays what you want and how you
want it in a text field.
HTH


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Start and Finish date display format change

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 04:20 PM PDT

What do you mean? If you want the European format rather than the American
that is defined by the regional settings in Windows not in Project
HTH

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Re-scheduling "late" work

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 03:06 PM PDT

Hi Jim,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

You then need to go to Tools/Tracking/Update project.../Reschedule
uncompleted work to start after:

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

JimC wrote: 

Position Available

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 09:34 AM PDT

Dale is, of course, correct. Thank you Dale.
The position is in Denver/Lakewood, Colorado.

Matt
 
management or 
the 

Breaking Down a Master Project

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 09:13 AM PDT

Thanks John! I had developed a similar game plan. I like the idea of
copying the predecessors and successors into holding fields, hadn't thought
of doing that. I have been discussing with the management here to not break
down the project to too small of pieces. They wanted to insert the smallest
subsets into Word documents. I have suggested instead that they insert link
instead. Its being considered.

Roland

"John" wrote:
 

Odd resource handling

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 08:50 AM PDT

To re-phrase: you can have a group like Carpenter with, say, 10 men. You
can assign the resource Carpenter to a task and project will do just that,
leaving 9 carpenters for assignment over the same period. If one of the
carpenters is called Fred, you cannot assign Fred to a task and expect
Project to realise that it now only has 9 carpenters left for that period.
You either have a group or you have individuals by name.

Hope that helped,


Mike Glen
Project MVP



Neil Peterson wrote: 

how do I wrap text?

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 07:21 AM PDT

Hi Jeannie,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

You could try putting a space before or after the resource's name in the
Resource Sheet view.

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

Jeannie wrote: 

Linked fields cut/paste

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 06:29 AM PDT

Hi Kurt

glad to assist and thanks for the feedback

cheers
JulieD

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How does one distribute task sheets to the web?

Posted: 27 Sep 2004 05:49 AM PDT

Invaluable information Dale Thank-you.

The weekly estimate is still not workable for what I need as no resource
really remains that
dedicated, sometimes yes, it will remain fully utilized for a week at a
time, but sometimes the changes are hourly,
a very dynamic situation as our production plans change rapidly. It is a
concurrent engineering environment.
It seems like one would not want this "burden" but the "burden" is ten fold
if actuals are delayed, even a half day can
have huge impact all this is compounded by 24/7 runtime.(three shifts)

So I need to deviate from the "recommended" but that is just a question of
timing is it not?
The concept of weekly vs daily vs hourly adjustments is just a label,
correct?

So now I can see we may have to increase the level of sophistication of our
team members
and elevate them to Project Managers. That's OK, but we can only tolerate
them as
PWA users not Project Pro users, In effect these folks will be responsible
for submitting and overseeing
the updating of actuals into the project plan. Again this is just a label,
some battles with permissions
configuration, and a discipline of don't touch what you are not supposed to.
The General Project Manager will resolve resource contention accross all
projects or the introduction of new
resources to the enterprise pool.

I'm excited to get my Project Server back. (lost to leaky capacitors). I
just need a few core components
of it's whole mechanism to accomplish what I need. But I have also found
that direct writes via third
party ODBC application to a Project Prorollout with a resident datastore in
SQL has it's own challenges.

Which presents the best value and demands my attention is a tough choice.





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Posted: 25 Sep 2004 10:58 PM PDT

See the posts starting on Sept 24 under the "Problem opening Project 2002"
thread.

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Project Name Doesn't Change When Using SaveAs

Posted: 25 Sep 2004 06:19 AM PDT

Well I don't know if there is a bug. I just noticed that if you ever type
something in the Title field of the Document Properties window (in File menu)
then this value takes precedence over Project's default and will be displayed
in the project summary task name. If you clear out this value in the doc
properties window, then... the project summary taskname gets also cleared out.

The only solution I found was to copy my project data to a brand new file..
and not ever touch the document properties again...

There must be a trick to set this back to the original value to display the
filename but I guess this would mean to hardcode something directly into the
..mpp file. Of coursse this is not documented by Microsoft...
Hope this helps,
Renaud

"Kevin" wrote:
 

S curve

Posted: 25 Sep 2004 04:28 AM PDT


Joe,
As I recall there is an S-curve macro on one of the MVP websites and I
think it was on Rod Gill's website at:
www.project-systems.co.nz
However when I tried to access the site, my browser wouldn't connect. I
will contact Rod separately and see if my recollection is correct.

John

How can I print one-day tasks only?

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 07:03 PM PDT

Hi

i've always found this option pretty "flakey" in version 2000 - not had any
problem however with it in 2003 (which doesn't help you much!) ... but one
way i've managed to get it to behave itself in ver 2000 is to

first choose format / timescale and set the top of the timescale to Day with
a count of 1 and the bottom to Hours with a count of 1

then set file / print - time period - make sure you also click in the Dates
radio button & not just set the dates.

Good luck

Cheers
JulieD



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resource sort

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 05:49 PM PDT

great. thx.

Splitting Tasks

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 03:56 PM PDT

Hi Chris

well spotted ... never knew that option was there (wonder why anyone would
want it?!?)

Cheers
JulieD

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Move Calendar so it prints on page correctly.

Posted: 24 Sep 2004 12:03 PM PDT

Hi 4lane,

There may be a misunderstanding here. When you write "The Calendar" do you
mean the Calendar View (which Rob refers to) or the Gantt Chart?
HTH
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