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Fixed work/units

Posted: 23 May 2005 08:46 PM PDT

Dear Jeff,

Thanks very much for the help. My email id is com.
Will you please let me know your mail id so that we can share views and ideas
about MS project.

Thanks and Regards,

Krishna Mohan

"Jeff Chapman" wrote:
 

Freeze Column for view

Posted: 23 May 2005 03:23 PM PDT

Very Tricky Grasshopper...

This sort of works, in that it indeed freezes the task name descriptions on
the left side of the screen. Unfortunately, the indentiation of sub task is
lost making it a bit difficult to read. Any thoughts on how to keep the
formatting?

Thanks for your response

"Reid McTaggart" wrote:
 

Publishing Projects

Posted: 23 May 2005 12:55 PM PDT

I've tried all information and project plan.

"Reid McTaggart" wrote:
 

What's the best way to post question

Posted: 23 May 2005 07:58 AM PDT

In article <com>,
"Garterlover" <com> wrote:
 

David,
Yes I use VPC. I presently have VPC 7.0.1 running under OS 10.2.8 but
after using VPC 7 for a while I get no clear advantage over my previous
install of VPC 5.0.4. I run Project 98, 2K and 2003 depending on the
question I need to answer.

John
Project MVP

Project Server Email Problem

Posted: 23 May 2005 03:59 AM PDT

We had notification problem once, antivirus was blocking mail port on the
server.

"Sami Khan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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What is a unique Joliet name?

Posted: 22 May 2005 08:13 AM PDT

"Joliet" is a system level file specification for CDs and the naming rules -
length, allowed characters, etc - it requires differ from those of Windows
itself. You'll need to rename some files to conform to the rules or zip your
files into an archive before saving.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Editor29" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Recurring Tasks on Saturdays and Sundays?

Posted: 21 May 2005 03:37 PM PDT

Project Standard and Project Pro do have some differences, but I don't know
if they would affect this issue.

I have found that editing a recurring task once it has been created does not
work nicely (as you noted). But creating a recurring task on Saturday or
Sunday after first defining the working times does work for me IF I define
the duration to be 2hrs and explicitly define the start time (not just the
date) in the Start box. To see start times, go to Tools > Options > Views
and select a date format that includes time.

--
Reid McTaggart
Alegient, Inc., Houston
Project Server Experts
Microsoft Certified Partner


"com" wrote:
 

Can I use Project for this?

Posted: 21 May 2005 07:57 AM PDT

"John" <com> wrote in message
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John-

I think I understand the "span" of projects that Project can handle. I'm
reading all I can about project management in general, read something today
which has me wondering if project management software is the best solution
for a musical organization:

(I'm paraphrasing the text I read here:) There's a distinction between
normal _operations_ of an organization, and _projects_ of an organization.
Normal Operations are repetitive, ongoing, activities/processes. Projects
are non-repetitive, specialized, finite events.

In a musical organization, "Normal Operations" ARE (in a way) repetitive,
ongoing, yet unique, finite events. Normal operations to, say, a symphony
orchestra, are a series of concerts. Week in, week out, x rehearsals and x
concerts. The only major thing that changes is the program (and the date).
Yet for each of these, you can identify and quantify all the tasks,
durations, resources, costs, etc., which project management software uses to
help you.

So, do you feel the "normal operations" of a symphony orchestra, as
described in the preceding paragraph, are indeed a series of projects?
That's how I'm approaching my studies right now. If so, I can more easily
adapt the facets of Project that I learn to a musical organization.

So I guess when I used the term "overkill", I was heading in that direction:
is it even beneficial to use project management software to manage a
repetitive series of projects (all of which ARE collectively "normal
operations")?


Fr@nk

different work hours for different resources

Posted: 20 May 2005 01:46 PM PDT

Note that regardless of task type, when you assign the FIRST resource(s) to
a task Project assumes that was what you had in mind you were going to do
when you made that duration estimate and thus won't change it. Also,
Project doesn't have a clue what the work requirement represented by theat
duration might be until after you've made the intial resource assignemnt.
Joe works an 8 hour day. If I have Task X with a duration of 5 days and
assign Joe at 100%, Project calculates the task requires 40 man-hours work.
But if I initially assign Joe at 50% instead, Project calculates the task
requires 20 man-hours but keeps the duration at the same 5 days. It's only
if I assign Joe initially at 100% and then EDIT his assignment to something
else will Project calculate a new duration value.

The duration of a task is exactly the same whether the calendar of a
resource assigned 100% shows he works a 4 hour day or an 8 hour day. But it
will take twice as many elapsed time calendar days to "burn up" that
duration for a 4 hour a day resource as it does for an 8 hour a day one.

If Joe who works an 8 hour day is assigned 100% to a task beginning Monday
that requires 40 man-hours, it will finish Friday at 5pm after 40 duration
hours. Each workshift is 1 8-hour duration day.

If Joe who works an 8 hour day is assigned 100% to a task beginning Monday
that requires 20 man-hours, it will finish Wednesday at noon after 20
duration hours. Each workshift is 1 8-hour duration day.

If Joe who works an 8 hour day is assigned 50% to a task beginning Monday
that requires 20 man-hours, it will finish Friday at 5pm after 40 duration
hours. Each workshift is 1 8-hour duration day.

If Bill who works a 4 hour day is assigned 100% to a task beginning Monday
that requires 40 man-hours, it will finish a week from Friday, 10 working
days, but still after 40 duration hours. Each workshift is 1/2 of 1 8-hour
duration day and so it takes 2 working shifts, spread over 2 calendar days,
to equal 1 duration day.

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



"Kesavan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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New User: Budget?

Posted: 20 May 2005 11:19 AM PDT

The term "budget" is a bit problematic when dealing with MS Project. The
everyday usage of the term connotates a maximum dollar amount one is allowed
to spend as allocated though some top-down process to distribute monetary
resources to the various activities of the firm, which is not quite what
Project means by the term. Project's budget is a bottom-up estimate based
on projected costs of the materials to be consumed and the labour to be
performed for each activity, rolled up into the summary level and project
levels to compute total amounts. Fixed costs are a portion of those
budgeted costs, representing projected costs associated with tasks and
summary tasks but that fall outside the materials and labour categories -
rent on office space or airfare for a trip for example. Once the projected
costs are saved as a baseline you can think of them as a top-down budget as
presumably that baselineing only happened after you've submitted your
projections for senior management approval and they've come back with a go
decision authorizing you to spend that amount. If the "budget" is actually
that first top-down estimate based on a distribution of projected revenues
rather than an estimate of required expenditures, I'd suggest using one of
the use-defined Cost fields to hold it so I have it handy to compare mny
estimates to. If the estimates are less than the budget, great! If the
estimates are greater than the budget and managment won't negotiate on
budget or scope, update the resume!

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


"RTucker" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Maintaining a Valid Baseline

Posted: 20 May 2005 07:48 AM PDT

Yes, I totally agree and am attempting to do just that. use a legitimate
baseline. But my file corruption issues prevented me from continuing work
with a 5800 line schedule unless I performed the "project import and delink"
routine I described. This left me with a Baseline that is now questionable.
When I found the milestone with a BLfinish that was before it's BLstart, I
became very suspicious of MSP 2003's ability to calculate and maintain data.
I traced back through archived files and found the Finish<Start issue existed
long before I performed the conversion to correct the VBA issues.

Here's what I discovered since then...
MS Project does not protect the Baseline fields at all! You can manually
overwrite them. So, I can go through all the pains of establishing a
baseline, then someone can change the data in Baseline Start/Finish, etc. and
resave the file. The "Last saved on..." info is not affected. There is no
way to know if someone messes with the schedule data.

Microsoft need to put field-level security on this product. And they need
to add better error checking into the calculations functionality to prevent
time-warping milestones!


--
RTucker, PMP


"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

Estimated / date or day wise

Posted: 19 May 2005 11:45 PM PDT

Task and resource also.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Resource Centre, Can't see all resources!

Posted: 19 May 2005 07:05 PM PDT

John,

I don't know what you mean by ""switch to Active Directory?""

First you need to have an account with Administrative rights.

Once you login using this account you will have access to the Admin menu in
Project Web Access.

Admin>Manage Users and Groups>Groups>Add group

Group Name: [I have entered the same name as that in Active Directory as
the group name]
Description: [I have entered the same name as that in Active Directory as
the group name]
Active Directory Group: [enter the name of the Active Directory group you
want synchronised here]

Click on Save Changes.

thats all that should be required to synchronise with AD and you should end
up with the list of accounts in the groupname you selected above.

Hope this helps. :)
--
Gani


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