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When is another version of MS Project going to be released?

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 06:19 AM PST

Hi Dave,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

MS seem to work on a 2 year cycle to coincide with the Office suite.
However, they have not released any planned dates, and they certainly have
not released any information as to new features. Like the rest of us,
you'll just have to wait and see :)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP



Dave Cochran wrote: 

Task - Resource Allocation for Multiple Users with Differnt Work Hours

Posted: 27 Nov 2004 10:04 PM PST

I usually try to break down tasks to the level of "one resource = one task,"
a resource being either a single individual or a team of resources who must
work together as a unit. Since your resources can work independently,
attested by the fact that sometimes you'll have 1 person on the task but
other times you have 2, perhaps it can be broken down into two tasks that
can be scheduled independently. If that's not the case, you'll have to
manually distribute the hours ... I'd initially assign it to just the
full-timer and when you know pretty well when it can start, add the
part-timer by subtracting hours from the first guy and giving them to the
second using the usage view so they end up finishing their individual
portions of the task at the same time..

FYI - it may be nitpicky but nomenclature can be important in communication.
A "project" is a bunch of tasks that in the aggregate produce a unique
deliverable. It is broken down into work packages - "tasks" - that describe
the specific physical activities carried out by the resources in producing
that deliverable.

Hope this helps

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



"Rich Zellmer" <com> wrote in message
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Project 2003 five resources maximum?

Posted: 27 Nov 2004 02:33 PM PST

Hi ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #10-Multiple Resource Assignments, at this
site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(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



com wrote: 

Not Quite Leveled

Posted: 27 Nov 2004 01:29 PM PST

Hi Ken,

I see only two possibilities then

- Have you asigned resources to any summary task?
- Or... I have seen leveling react badly to links other than FS, especially
on summary tasks

Short from having a look at the file I cannot imagine any more..

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620
"Ken Kast" <com> schreef in bericht
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60-day Project Standard 2003 Trial only works 1 day

Posted: 27 Nov 2004 04:34 AM PST

Go Start / Run / "regedit"
Then change the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/10.0/MSProject/Options/General/FirstBoot

to equal 1


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

"Bsymes" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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task resource allocation discrepancy: 0hrs<>80%

Posted: 26 Nov 2004 02:15 AM PST

No problem, Dave :)

I haven't come across this zero hours problem. You have Calculation turned
I suppose - Tools/Options.../Calculation tab/Calculation Mode set to
Automatic?

I suppose it could be corruption, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

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
Project MVP



David Wanless wrote: 

Must start vs Can start

Posted: 25 Nov 2004 06:53 PM PST

Hi Ken,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

You're out of luck :( This has been often requested - maybe in the next
version? You could try adding a 1000 priority to both tasks and provided
there are no other priority tasks that high, levelling using
Priority,Standard could keep them together.

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



Ken Kast wrote: 

Resource name of external task

Posted: 25 Nov 2004 06:33 AM PST


Daniel,
You're welcome.
John

Entering a Start Date getting yesterdays date?

Posted: 25 Nov 2004 06:31 AM PST

Hi Julie,

I should have been more clear. I am using Microsoft Project Professional 2002.

I am in Task Usage view. The task has many person assigned. The task has
started
long time ago 2003... (Fixed Unit type, As Soon As Possible).
I have added 2 more resources to start on the task.
For few weeks they never started on their tasks, so I decided to give them a
new
Start date. For person A, whatever date I am selecting, the Start column
gives me
the day before. For example I am selecting this Monday as the new start
date. It gives me last Friday. In the timephased field on the right side, I
can see that there is no work assigned on Friday but Monday which is fine.
The only thing is the date in the "Start" column is wrong. For person B,
everything is fine. If I set Monday I get Monday as my start date in the same
task...

It seems to be dependent on a personal setting but I don't know which one?

Thanks,
/// Atilla



"JulieD" wrote:
 

Resources with different hours per day

Posted: 24 Nov 2004 01:49 PM PST

Pat - FYI - the Default Start and End Time entriess on the Calendar Options
page have nothing to do with controlling the hours of business or the work
day, at least not directly. All Project's date fields are actually
date/time fields. When you input a date such as the Project Start date or a
contraint, a time is also included. If you enter into the field by
selecting a date from a pulldown calendar Project uses the Project Calendar
to determine the time it uses. But if you manually type a date into the
field in question but choose NOT to include the time, Project uses the
Options Default Start Time (or End Time as the case may be) to supply the
time portion of the data. That's really all they do.


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

"Pat Garard" <apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau> wrote in message
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Resources with different length of work days

Posted: 24 Nov 2004 01:47 PM PST

Jan,

I have two calendars defined; 1) Standand and 2) Monday - Thursday. The
Standard schedule is the Mon - Fri 8 hours a day. The Monday - Thursday
calendar is the 4 10 hour day schedule. Some of the people are assigned to
the standard schedule and some peopled are assigned to the Monday - Thursday.
When I assign resouces to tasks the people assigned to the Standard schedule
works correctly, they are assigned 8 hours of work. But, when I assign tasks
to the Monday - Thursday people, they are only assigned 8 hours of work each
day.

How do I make the system assign 10 hours of work to the Monday - Thursday
resources?

Thanks Larry

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Has anyone migrated from Artemis Views

Posted: 24 Nov 2004 07:27 AM PST

Thanks for the response Gerard,
We could do that, but
a) I want to migrate the code categories / standing data, which to my
knowledge doesn't get included in an MPC file.
b) Users have been able to configure their own data based on their own code
categories in a number of columns (standard functionality).
c) There are over 5000 projects. Sounds like a case for achey fingers to me.

Any ideas most appreciated.

"Gerard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Copying and pasting visible filtered data ONLY to a new plan

Posted: 24 Nov 2004 01:57 AM PST


Pete,
I know the various types of newsgroups can be confusing to a poster. As
I said, the MVPs (and even others who respond) generally check all
newsgroups. We've actually seen more "rogue" posts than anything else. I
define a "rogue" post as one that has nothing to do with any part of
Project (i.e. posts on Excel, Word, etc.). If a post is related to
Project but in the wrong group (i.e. VBA question in the main
newsgroup), most MVPs will answer the question anyway. If they don't
have that expertise, then they may advise posting in a more appropriate
group.

We pride ourselves in being one of the best newsgroups for getting
answers but that "service" does take time (we are all volunteers) and we
would rather not spend unnecessary time answering a post that is already
been addressed.

Just use your best judgment as to which newsgroup is most appropriate
but only pick one per question. We will take it from there.

John