| Old project Posted: 28 Jul 2004 10:32 PM PDT Hi, The following is AFAIK the fastest way: Select all tasks Task Information Icon Set % complete to 0 Now it depends on what you want to do with your old constraints. If you do not want them to be taken into account, with task information open set constraint to as soon as possible; then set Project Start to the new start date and off you go If you want to move them by the same number of days as the project start, leave task infoemartion, show the analysis toolbar and click adjust dates. Follow the instructions. Good Luck -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "blake williams" <blake microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... change the project start date, and use all the durations?? If so how? |
| Changing a Work Week for one Sub-task amongst many in Project 2000 Posted: 28 Jul 2004 05:36 PM PDT Hi,
Being a (lousy) golfer myself, I coudn't help adding my 2cts worth here.
Technically speaking, what you need is a task calendar.
Go to Tools, Change Working time
New
Name: Seven days (or any )
Click the hedings of Sat and Sun
Nonstandard working time
OK
Now select the two follow-up tasks
Task Information icon
Advanced
Calendar, select 7 days
That is what you look for.
But one thing bothers me in your post.
How are you going to use this to "measure success of the operation"??
Curious about that...
Keep the swing going.
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620
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Actually, my project is an assignment to management (my project team) and
they are involving front line people in just two tasks in support of their
management effort. Maybe sharing my real scenario with you and others will
be helpful.
on our golf carts at our 27 hole golf course. It is being set up as a 60 day
pilot project to test our customer's response to using this "value added"
service. Management has the tasks of researching various systems and
vendors, doing site visits to other facilities, bidding a system, selecting
a system, installing a system, setting up training for front line staff in
the use of the system, surveying the customers and then writing a report and
recommendation on the results of the pilot test. They will do all of that
work M - F from 8:00 until 5:00 (management has a 5 day work week).
service to the customers by the front desk staff (which happens 7 days per
week- we operate our golf course all 7 days- management just works 5 of
those days), and the actual 60 day piloting of the GPS system by our
golfers. As it turns out, I'm not really assigning "resources" to those two
sub-tasks [selling the program and allowing the golfers to use the value
added service]. Management is not involved in that. Front desk staff is.
of what is happening in both periods (thus my reason for having them in my
project plan), but maybe I can't do that. Or do you think I can?
really should be, can I have 16 sub-tasks be set up on a 5 day work week,
and 2 of my sub-task set up on a 7 day work week?
tab- Help button, and there were no answers for this question (which I
probably asked wrong the first time). It did, however, lead me to the
on-line web site, and thus my posting in this Discussion group area.
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| Baseline Comparison! Posted: 28 Jul 2004 11:25 AM PDT Hi ak,
Please see FAQ Item: 14. Viewing Multiple Baselines
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
ak wrote:
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| Microsoft Project and Microsoft Access Posted: 28 Jul 2004 09:02 AM PDT You can add access tables to a project database.
You should read the document called projdb.htm which you can find on your
project CD or computer where project is installed.
It is essential reading for working with the database.
-Jack
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| consumable resource? Posted: 28 Jul 2004 08:07 AM PDT Make the resource "material" instead of "work". You can do this in the
second column of the Resource Sheet or in the Resource Form in the
field "type".
David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting
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| Exporting tasks to Outlook Posted: 28 Jul 2004 07:47 AM PDT Jan,
Assuming that you just want to export your own tasks to Outlook, you
can do it by installing the MS Project Add-in for Outlook. It's
located in the WGSETUP folder on the MS Project CD (you might have to
dig down a couple of levels to find it.) You'll need to make sure
that you've entered in your email address in the Resource Sheet, and
that you've selected email as the collaboration method. All of this
is covered in the Help file. Just do a search on Collaborate, and you
should find an entry on using email. Using Email as the collaboration
method isn't as elegant as using Project Server, but it helps some.
If you want to export EVERYONE'S tasks to your copy of Outlook....I'm
not sure how you'd do that.
Good Luck
Dan Keen
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| Gantt chart with multiple timescales Posted: 28 Jul 2004 07:06 AM PDT Thanks guys.
magnified timescale
the overall
views and then
Perhaps not exactly
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| Modifying 'Task details Form' View in Project 2003 Posted: 28 Jul 2004 07:04 AM PDT
Lori,
Once the custom form is created it can be attached to any toolbar
button, menu item or subitem, or it can be incorporated into a custom
split view or simply made available as a screen type to create a view
(that sounds like what you want to do).
I haven't gone through the actual details but this process should get
you pointed in the right direction:
1. Create the form
2. Create a new single view with the screen type as your form. Note:
your form may need to be transferred to your Global via the organizer
before it will show up as an available screen type.
3. Check the box to show the new view in the menu
Assuming all that goes smoothly you should now be able to select your
new form as the bottom pane of a split window. To distribute it to other
users, use the organizer to copy the new view with the form and the new
form to a blank Project file and distribute it to other users. They will
need to load both the new view and form into their Global.
Give it a try. Let me know how it works out and if you have any other
questions, let us know.
John
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| Stop Project from changing Start/End dates Posted: 27 Jul 2004 12:50 PM PDT LOL "davegb" <com> wrote in message news:google.com... news:<phx.gbl>... to the if that delayed You after to will happen project you scheduling take the snapshot should which nothing and end Resources I |
| circular relationship Posted: 27 Jul 2004 11:46 AM PDT
Mark,
Just as an added note, a common cause of circular relationships is when
a user puts a predecessor or successor on a Summary line. That may not
be what happened in your case, but I thought it worth mentioning just in
case.
John
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| Newbie resource question Posted: 27 Jul 2004 11:08 AM PDT Got it - thanks. At the moment it's a steep learning curve (is it just me or does Project have the worst help system so far?).
It works but it seems an ugly way to do things. If Ive got the thing right then I'm always going to have over or under utilised resources despite the fact that they are working full time to the limit of their capability in this area (they have to work in other 'normal' time based tasks as well.)
Seriously considering the Dummies book...... ;)
Regards
PW
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| Calendar-day dependencies between tasks Posted: 27 Jul 2004 11:06 AM PDT I'm really curious, what human endeavors are so precisely timed?
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs
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completed exactly 18 calendar-days apart. I can't begin the first task
unless I know there is a resource available, 18 days later, to perform the
second. Once the first task has been completed, nothing can change the
start date of the second task.
following problems:
perfectly happy to start the second task 30 days later, if necessary.
weekends and holidays are not counted. My 18 day lag time ends up taking 24
days.
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| Cell Wrap Posted: 27 Jul 2004 09:59 AM PDT John,
Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense.
"John" wrote:
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| Custom Page Setup Posted: 27 Jul 2004 06:56 AM PDT Hi Joao,
Not that I know of as I think it's hard coded, but the experts hang out in
the developer newsgroup, try there. 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
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| PWA Timesheet Problem Posted: 27 Jul 2004 06:30 AM PDT Cool. Thanks for the info!
Your page is
tracking, which
Remaining Work columns
use of the timesheet
cells are grayed
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| Dll's only? Posted: 27 Jul 2004 03:19 AM PDT Hi Bradford,
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
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| Is MS Project for my needs??? please help Posted: 26 Jul 2004 11:54 PM PDT Hi,
It depends on two things:
-Which data are exactly available and
- How familiar you are with VBA programming
You can have performances (throughput/hour) as a number field in your
resource sheet (amchines being the resources) and volumes in a number field
of ech task - in the case of my customer it was in the summary task spanning
all production steps for a batch.
But I cannot qualify "difficulty", I'm too biased - ¨Project is the only
product I have ever known in depth so for me this is very "easy" and
"simple" (but nearly all features or Word remain mysteries, I do not know
pivot things in Excel, and I cannot address a table in Access) - I 'm
willing to help though.
HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620
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assembly line type outfit). Project seems like it would be usefull
scheduling all of my projects with differnt delivery dates through all of my
stations, but I will need to set up how many units/hr each station can
accomodate in order for Project to properly schedule.
trouble?
help
tasks
resources
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| Printing Gantt Posted: 26 Jul 2004 03:47 PM PDT
Nicole,
Trying to remotely troubleshoot printing problems is always dicey since
each user has their own printer type, settings and print drivers.
Without actually seeing your file and probably not having the same
printer setup as you I can only guess at some things. Take a look at
File/Print. In the Print window is there a option to set Manual Page
Breaks? If it is not checked, check it. Hopefully that will resolve the
problem.
John
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| Setting a constraint to a day of the week not a Date Posted: 26 Jul 2004 01:56 PM PDT A "constraint" in Project is not quite what you're looking for - a
constraint is a limitation that says "never schedule this task earlier than
xx date" for example. What I think you're looking for is a rule that says
"this task must only be scheduled on a Monday." This is not a constraint in
the technical definition of the term but it is easily accomplished by
defining a calendar (Tools, ChangeWorkingTime, New) that shows Monday as the
only working day and using it as a task calendar (TaskInformationForm,
Advanced tab). If the *training* task only may take place on Mondays make
your Monday Only calendar training's task calendar. If training can only
*start* on Mondays but can continue on Tuesday Wednesday etc, create a
milestone task that has your Mon Only task as its task calendar that is a
predecessor in the link leading to the training task - in that case, you
might also want to make the Mon Only show only one minute working time
shortly before the start of the real workday so training is positioned
correctly at the start of the day.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs
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| MS Word Posted: 26 Jul 2004 12:12 PM PDT Hi TJ,
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
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| User Manual Posted: 26 Jul 2004 10:55 AM PDT thanks
Project that are
message
just
where
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| Calendar days Posted: 26 Jul 2004 09:31 AM PDT Hi Mike
just wondering why you need / want to do this for all tasks? if you're
specifying all tasks as ED how are you determining what the actual work &
when it needs to be done etc? if you'ld like to give us more information
about your project / work environment maybe we can come up with some other
ideas.
Cheers
JulieD
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| Nested If calculation Posted: 26 Jul 2004 08:56 AM PDT
Jack,
Interesting, see my post. I didn't put in a second value and it worked
fine once I corrected the other errors (at least with Project 2000).
Ain't "consistency" wonderful.
John
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| insertin gProject into a Word Document Posted: 26 Jul 2004 08:51 AM PDT Hi Andy,
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
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| why project central has no integrity rules Posted: 26 Jul 2004 08:06 AM PDT Because the business logic is in the application rather than the database.
Thus no rules are are in the database. I believe that it would make the
performance slower among other things.
-Jack
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