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Actual Material Usage Microsoft Project

Actual Material Usage

Posted: 28 Dec 2004 01:55 AM PST

Thanks for reply,

That is done but how does it get populated. You know we enter the
%complete which is for work complete. but if i say the work is
completed 100% but instead of planned usage of 10 units of materials, i
have used only 6 units how do i track that. I just wanted to track my
planned materials vs actual material consumed. So as we have Planned
date and actual date, can we have Planned resources and Actual
resources.

Creating an Outline with Summary Tasks

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 08:23 AM PST

Hi Ernest,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You need to indent the 3 tasks below the summary task to make it a summary.
Select the 3 tasks and click the indent button on the toolbar. See my
series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #2 about
Outlining. 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




Ernest Rawls wrote: 

Recurring Tasks! ;-)

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 07:11 AM PST

You're welcome, Louise :-)

Yes. You will then have to link the components as necessary. If you have
many of these, you might consider automating the process with some vba. If
so, try posting on the developer newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24.
Project Newsgroups. 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


Ladymuck wrote: 

Key Benefits of Portal Integration

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 05:31 AM PST

You're welcome, Stefan :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP





Stefan Rauchegger wrote: 

Duration more than difference between Start and end date

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 04:32 AM PST

Thanks very Much


Mike

Recreating your project was to only get familiarize with MS project. I
have read all your articles and believe me they are great. Well your
response solved my first question but not the 2nd. I am still getting
mismatch hrs
 
I even checked the Tools->Options->Calendar and the working time, but
still the same result.

Mike i also wanted a suggestion from you. I am trying to create an
Inventory Schedule. I have the list of tasks and the
materials(equipments) required to complete the task. Is it possible to
know from the schedule the total inventory consumed (in case of works
done) and total inventory required for future tasks. This will help me
know when to order for new inventory (in future).

I hope the above makes sense and appreciate your effort to solve my
problem.

Thanks

Pradeep

Mike Glen wrote: 
 
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help 

Does anybody know how to output the gantt chart from Microsoft Project to Microsoft Word?

Posted: 26 Dec 2004 04:13 PM PST

Hi sic,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer.

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



sic wrote: 

Immediate Successor

Posted: 26 Dec 2004 09:08 AM PST

Never, ever, under any circumstances, assign resources to summary tasks.
Summaries are roll-ups of the performance tasks and in a very real sense
don't actually exist as tangible events like "real" tasks do - they are
purely artifacts inserted for convenience in organization and reporting.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Ken Kast" <com> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 

2 week look ahead

Posted: 24 Dec 2004 11:41 AM PST

John wrote:
 

I was talking about the clicks for using a date picker.

--
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Brian K
Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com

Project Server Consultant
http://www.quantumpm.com

2 week schedule rotation

Posted: 23 Dec 2004 11:51 PM PST

Thank you Brian, I'll experiment with this.

-Don

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

Keying in start and end dates for split task sections

Posted: 23 Dec 2004 08:41 AM PST

Yes - I'd forgotton that avenue!


Mike Glen
Project MVP




JulieS wrote: 

Can I use Virtual PC on my G5 to use MS Project?

Posted: 23 Dec 2004 08:41 AM PST



On 12/24/04 5:26 PM, in article microsoft.com,
"Brian K - Project MVP" <com> wrote:
 

I have 2 GB (the max I can put on my iMac G5). I have allocated 256 MB to
VPC. For some reason the PC info window says that there are 64 MB of hard
ram and 100 of available ram! Go figure!


Ken Gorelick

Separting costs for internal and external resources

Posted: 23 Dec 2004 07:11 AM PST

Hi ProjectFly,

I can arrive at a partial answer using the Resource Group field in a task
view. Enter the Internal or External information on the resource sheet in
the Group Field. You may then add the Resource Group field to any task view
and see which group the assigned resources are from.
You can then add one of the custom Cost fields and show costs where only
internal or external resources are assigned using a formula like:
IIf([Resource Group]= "Internal", [Cost], 0)
Use another cost field to test whether the resource group equal "External".

The challenge becomes when you have both internal and external resources
assigned to a single task. I have not yet be able to come up with a way to
parse that information and determine which part of the cost belongs to which
resource in Project.

Another option is to start with the beginning suggestion (use the resource
Group field) and then export that information to Excel. I used the Export
Map "Task List with embedded assignment rows" and modified the map to add the
Resource Group field. Once in Excel, it becomes much easier to manipulate
the data.

Hope this helps partially and perhaps another reader can respond with a
better answer. I'll keep plugging away and will post with a possible
solution when I find one.

Julie

"ProjectFly" wrote:
 

Summary Task Duration Adding to Fraction

Posted: 23 Dec 2004 06:17 AM PST

You may have an overlap of 2 or more tasks within the summary or there may
be a delay in the link between a couple of tasks. The duration of a summary
task is not the aritmetic sum of the durations of its component subtasks
except by accident.

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

"Tina Winter" <Tina microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

More Start and Finish columns

Posted: 22 Dec 2004 05:20 PM PST

You're welcome. Thanks very much for the feedback.

Julie

"headware" wrote:
 

No task display unless I make it a subtask

Posted: 22 Dec 2004 11:17 AM PST

Hi PJ,

Is the Gantt bar for the "mystery" task formatted in white? Select the task
and choose Format -> Bar from the menu and change the color to some other
color. Does it appear now?

Julie

"PJ" wrote: