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actual completion date versus task calendar date Microsoft Project

actual completion date versus task calendar date

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 12:25 PM PST

One hour per day is the equivalent of a 12.5% resource assignment level if
the resource's calendar says he works an 8 hour workday. Your task begins
Jan 1st?? New Years Day isn't a holiday and your resource works weekends?
For discussion lets say your resource works 8-5 M-F, 5 days @ 8 hours/day
for a 40-hour workweek. Task X which requires 24 man-hours of work begins
the first workday in Jan, Mon 03 Jan. If your resource worked full-time on
it, it would finish Wed at 5 pm, 24 working hours later or 3 workdays. But
your resource is only working 1 hour per day - that means the task duration
will require 24 days to accumulate 24 man-hours of work. Enter the task
with a duration of 24 days, assign the resource at 12.5% and when you
display the work column, split the screen for instance, you'll see that it
shows 24 man-hours of work being performed. Alternately, enter the task as
3 days duration, assign the resource 100% and then EDIT the resource
assignment to reduce it to 12.5% and Project will calculate a new duration
of 24 days. In either case, the result is a task that starts Mon 03 Jan and
ends Thur 03 Feb with the task following it ln the link starting Fri 04 Feb
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Lina" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Change font color of 'custom field' value

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 08:45 AM PST


Thanks. Just a few minutes a go I figured out how to do it using a
'Customized Field'. Within this field I used the 'Value List' indicating
possible values (low/med/high), then I used 'Graphical Indicators' setting
'low' = green button, and so on. Works great! Now it's easy to pickup trouble
spots on 100+ task plans. In addition, I set 'summary rows' = white button so
as not to confuse the real status of a summary task.

"John" wrote:
 

Missing contour option

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 01:21 AM PST

Rod,

No, the contour is not available in the resource usage or task usage view.
All I see (when I diuble-click a task in teh resource usage view), is the
label. In Dutch, it is called "werklastbeschrijving:". There is no
possibility to select one of the predefined options: there is simply no
drop-down.

May be, it has something to do with the Dutch version? Or is it some option
with the professional version. I use it as a stand-alone version (therefore,
I 'd better shoudl use the Standaard version, but this is the one I got from
work). I don't use Microsoft Server 2003.

Thanks for your time.

"Rod Gill" <rodg AT project HYPHEN systems DOT co DOT nz> schreef in bericht
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How do I 'start date' = current date & 'finish date' = fixed date

Posted: 29 Dec 2004 01:13 PM PST


Agreed. I will back track and adjust.

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Security Profiles

Posted: 29 Dec 2004 01:07 PM PST

Nancy --

The books you have already purchased deal specifically with Microsoft
Project and not with Project Server. Our books deal specifically with
Project Server. Please feel free to download the table of contents for the
administrator's book to confirm the content you seek, but I do believe our
book will provide the knowledge you need to create the document. In our
book, we detail the exact permissions for every Group and Category, and
explain in detail how the use of the RBS field controls security in Project
Server. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Nancy Wood" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Project Server 2003 Add-On

Posted: 28 Dec 2004 12:29 PM PST

Hi Lia,

Try posting on the server 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
Project MVP





Lia wrote: 

Errors in Outlook generated from PWA

Posted: 28 Dec 2004 09:41 AM PST

Thanks Mike. I posted it there as well and within the Outlook sections.

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

skills versus talents

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 06:43 PM PST

I would parse it this way:

Talent: Innate ability
Skill: Acquired ability



On 12/28/04 3:49 PM, in article phx.gbl, "Bill
Swihart" <com> wrote:
 

Ken Gorelick

Text Fields between Gantt and Resource View

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 06:31 PM PST

deluth wrote:
 

Does the macro you have put Task Text field values into the Assignment
Text fields so they can be seen in the Usage View? If so that macro can
be easily redone to put resource text fields in as well. But they
cannot be used at the same time since one puts resource fields in and
one puts task fields in. The only way both can work is if One set puts
the (for example) Task Text 1 field into the Assignment Text1 field and
then the other puts the Resource Text 1 field into Assignment Text2.
Then you could have both working together.

Here are macros that will do what you want (I think). One for tasks and
one for resources. you will need to edit the "Text1" parts to get them
right for your situation.

Sub RestoAssn()
Dim R As Resource
Dim A As Assignment

For Each R In ActiveProject.Resources
If Not (R Is Nothing) Then
For Each A In R.Assignments
A.Text1 = R.Text1
Next A
End If
Next R
End Sub

Sub TasktoAssn()
Dim T As Task
Dim A As Assignment

For Each T In ActiveProject.Tasks
If Not (T Is Nothing) Then
For Each A In T.Assignments
A.Text2 = T.Text1
Next A
End If
Next T
End Sub

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

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

Team Leads rejecting task updates

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 04:23 PM PST

Andy --

They won't see the updates on the Updates page. They will see each
delegated task on their timesheet in PWA, and will see the actuals entered
by the team members there. The team lead must then select the task and
click the Update All or Update Selected Task button to submit the actuals to
the project manager. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Andy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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durations and resources

Posted: 27 Dec 2004 12:27 PM PST

Unlike work resources you can't change the materials and have the duration
change as a result. Changing duration, though, can change the total
materials consumed, depending on how you enter it in the resource assignment
to begin with.

Let's say your resource is fuel for a generator. The generator itself is a
work resource but the fuel is a material resource and the resource list will
have both entries along with the people working in your project. You would
enter the fuel in the resource sheet with the name would be "fuel," the type
"material," the material label might be "gallons" and the standard rate
would be the cost per unit in the material label, for instance entering
$2.00 in the standard rate would mean it costs $2.00/gallon. Now let's say
your generator uses 5 gallons per hour. When you assign resources to the
task that uses the generator you would include in the list "Fuel" along with
the people, etc, and in the assignment units column for the fuel you would
enter "5/hr" without the quotes. Now Project will multiply the task
duration in hours by 5 to determine the total gallons used and that in turn
by $2 to determine the cost of fuel for that one task. If the duration
changes later, it will automatically recompute the number of gallons for the
new duration. You can see that calculation in action if you split the
screen and in the bottom window right mouse and select the "resource cost"
form.

OTOH, the other way to account for materials is to enter the actual expected
total consumption of the material by the task using it. If you're doing a
100 metre long wall 1 metre high it will take the same number of bricks for
the wall regardless of how long it takes to do it. For that one, the
resource sheet would have "Bricks," the label would be perhaps "each" and
the standard rate would be "$1.50"" the cost per brick. When you assign
resources to the "Build The Wall" task the resource list would be "Joe
Bricklayer, 100%" and "Bricks, 5000" meaning it will require 5000 bricks for
the wall. Notice that the "/hr" is missing in this case, indicating it will
take 5000 bricks regardless of whether it takes 1 day or 1 week to build the
wall.


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



"Steph" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How to you track multiple resource time associated with multiple .

Posted: 23 Dec 2004 08:29 AM PST

Hi Firstlady,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #18 – Multiple Project Management, 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



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