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Linking tasks between projects? Microsoft Project

Linking tasks between projects?

Posted: 28 Apr 2005 07:18 AM PDT

RoseC wrote:
 

I was pretty sure this was wrong but I tested it again just now and
inserting a task into the project before the sucessor in a
cross-project link does not break the link. Adding new tasks or moving
the linked task does not cause the wrong task to be linked.

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Black "Progress" line in the Project Center doesn't advance

Posted: 28 Apr 2005 06:30 AM PDT

texasroy --

You are misunderstanding how publishing works in Project Server. When you
click Collaborate - Publish - New and Changed Assignments, doing so "pushes"
the assignment information to each uers's timesheet in PWA and to the View
resource assignments section of PWA. You must use Collaborate - Publish -
Project Plan to "push" the data to the Project Center and detailed Project
views in PWA. You can use Collaborate - Publish - All Information to "push"
the data to all relevant areas of PWA. Hope this helps.

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


"texasroy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How does one set a floating task?

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 11:05 PM PDT

If you want to show only the slack, make the new item in the Bar Style from
"Finish" to "Late Finish".

texasroy

"texasroy" wrote:
 

How To Fix Blank Screen In MS Projects Program?

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 08:54 PM PDT

Hi ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Have you tries uninstalling and reinstalling Project?


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



Puzzled wrote: 

How does resource allocation work?

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 03:39 PM PDT

Hi Dave,

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



Dave H wrote: 

Project scheduling quirk

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 02:24 PM PDT

That was it. Many Thanks!

"pratta" wrote:
 

PRINCE2

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 12:49 PM PDT

Rod

Thanks, I agree - by converting Product Break-down structures to WBS,
working out the stage plans, adding all the stage, highlight and checkpoint
reports, logs, etc. But then again as we know...PRINCE2 is 'non-presciptive'
- I think I'll just use Project as I always have as a checklist and tailor P2
to what I need from it.

Dave

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Uploading changes to Project Server

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 12:47 PM PDT

You're welcome, new2msp . I hope you get an answer from there :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP





new2msp wrote: 

Leveling does not honor task links

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 08:28 AM PDT

Hi Al
Perhaps with multi projects there is a problem with sharing resource pools
and calendars. Are you using a resource pool? Do the resources operating from
a base calendar. If not, I'd try setting tools /Resource Sharing/ to a single
respool file with only resources in it. Try it on a test suite of of projects
without local resources and then re-try levelling.
Then scale up if it works.


Regards.........Pratta
"Al Gardiner" wrote:
 

Resource availability

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 06:05 AM PDT

I have Project 2003. Yes, the general tab under resource info.

I entered 9/1/05 to 8/31/06 0%
9/1/06 to 8/31/06 100%


"JulieD" wrote:
 

Is MS Project right for me?

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 06:05 AM PDT

Becky:

I agree with Dave that you cannot really track resources without tracking
the tasks that the resource perform. The PMO I lead was trying to do just
that but were not getting even ball park accurate data.

Here's an example. If you track on the high level, you assign resources at
percentages. Jane is working 4 projects at 25%. But it is very possible
that several times in the specific projects she must work full time on
specific tasks - maybe all 4 project at once (you have no way of knowing if
you do not track to the task level). Without task scheduling in each
project, you cannot see this conflict and you think all 4 projects can finish
when planned.

You will need some type of enterprise project management software to do what
your management wants - and you will need to plan each project down to a
fairly low level of detail to ensure you do not have major overallocation of
resources.

While Project Server is a good tool to do all this, if does require at least
one high level of expert (your guru) and the PMs working in the environment
need to be fairly proficient in the tool.

texasroy

"davegb" wrote:
 

Multiple Resources on one task

Posted: 27 Apr 2005 04:10 AM PDT

quite so :)

--
Cheers
JulieD

"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message
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Project Template

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 02:46 PM PDT

Rod,

Thank you very much for the helpful advice! I think you're right...I need
to hold a kickoff meeting and figure out who, what, when, where and why and
then task it all together. The hardest part is getting people to cooperate!
This company has NEVER had any sort of project plan before for any sort of
project and the processes stink! I feel I have a long road ahead of me on
this one, but I always love a good challenge! :)

Thanks Again!
Shanna

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

removing resources from customer copy

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 11:59 AM PDT

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote:
 

Jan,
Yes, actually I did, but since I had calculation off, everything "stayed
put" until all the changes were made. I wouldn't guarantee the method I
described works 100% for all situations (sometimes Project has a mind of
its own), but my intent was to alert jag to the idea of constraining
tasks so he could "lock in" the timeline generated by leveling.

John

accuracy of escalated rates in payrates table

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 09:51 AM PDT

As John said, Project is a schedule and cost ESTIMATING program, not an
accounting or financial program. Even it's "actuals" are really usually
only close approximations. Your example of +/- $500 in a 100 kilobuck
estimate may not be acceptable for financial accounting but in a discipline
where +/- 10% accuracy is consdered to be spot-on and +/- 25% is more the
general the norm, such precision would have us all dumb-struck with wonder
at being witness to a true miracle. <grin> No offense intended but I have
to wonder if your organization hasn't fallen into the trap of thinking that
precision in the calculations somehow drives the real world into compliance,
confusing precision with accuracy. No matter how precise your estimate
calcaulations are today of what projected costs several years down the road
will be, I seriously doubt if their accuracy would be even within the
ballpark. You may calculate to 4 decimal precision but I'd wager the real
world accuracy when you get there and compare actuals with estimates is no
better than integer level precsion or worse. There are just too many
variable out there in that untidy real world to take them all into account.
In short, for a project estimate to be within $500 in 100 kilbucks is
incredibly small stuff and a manager who wants to remain sane shouldn't
sweat the small stuff. Even a $10,000 deviation would be close enough for
effective project managment.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"Bill F." <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Multiple Views open at once?

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 08:52 AM PDT

If you are able to, tile your screens on top of one another instead of the
normal side by side. This will then let you pull the split to the bottom of
the first screen i.e. above the split will be on the top or 1st screen and
below the split will be on the bottom or 2nd screen.

"KellyB" wrote:
 

Resource Information Dialog... Booking Type?

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 08:21 AM PDT

thanx

Grouping / Categorizing resources in ERP

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 07:25 AM PDT

Hi Deborah,

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





Deborah R wrote: 

Random Timing

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 07:12 AM PDT

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"JulieD" <net.au> wrote:
 

Julie,
I agree fully. After I wrote my response I began to really question the
point of "random" scheduling of classes. There are so many reasons why
it is a really bad idea for students, the instructor and the
institution. For example, if English is randomly scheduled then all
other classes at the institution would also need to be on the same
random schedule so that students who are taking more than just English
(probably most of them) could get to their other classes.

It certainly is an interesting post, but in my view, totally impractical.

John

why is 1 week shown as 4 days?

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 05:35 AM PDT

Hi Nina,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours

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


Nina wrote: 

Project tasks add an assigment requires ID instead of index

Posted: 26 Apr 2005 01:43 AM PDT

Hi,

The ghelp I mentioned is the description of all objects and methods as
obtained from the Object Browser in VBE.
It says Index is either the ID or the Name, not a different integer, and it
says ID where I saisdit does.
Hope this helps,

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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+32-495-300 620
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Managing multiple project plans

Posted: 25 Apr 2005 07:35 PM PDT

Hi Andy,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 & 18 on Multiple Projects, 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



Andy wrote: 

Exporting to HTML

Posted: 25 Apr 2005 07:09 PM PDT

Thanks everyone! It's working!

"JulieD" wrote:
 

how do I create more viewable lines in Task name field of project

Posted: 25 Apr 2005 06:18 PM PDT

In article <O#$phx.gbl>,
"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote:
 


Jan,
On the surface that is what might be assumed. However, the poster may
have been using the word "charter" in it's true context, namely a
predefined activity. And perhaps the intent was to have that predefined
activity repeated more than once in the plan. Not a recommended way of
defining tasks in a project plan, but many people do use repeat task
names.

Nothing is quite what it seems.

John