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how can you create a dependency on a future task? Microsoft Project

how can you create a dependency on a future task? Microsoft Project

how can you create a dependency on a future task?

Posted: 11 Aug 2005 07:19 AM PDT

i tried doing that but got a message about a circular task relationship - i
will play around a bit more - this is my first real experience with project
and i am learning as i go - thanks for your help
--
darci


"Sarah" wrote:
 

how to set Title same as Project name

Posted: 11 Aug 2005 05:16 AM PDT

See me previous post. You need to change the name in File>Properties.

Circular reference problem!

Posted: 11 Aug 2005 01:01 AM PDT


You're welcome, Herbgarden :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Herbgarden wrote: 

Can a task be identified as non-critical?

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 12:58 PM PDT

How is it possible for any task ever to extend beyond the project end date?
The project end is when all of the work in the project has been completed.
If any work is left to do, the project is not done yet. If a task is in the
project, it represents work that is part of the project. A project is never
considered ended until all of the work on all of the tasks is completed.
Ergo, it is impossible for a task to ever extend beyond the project finish
date since such a delay pushes back the finish date accordingly. It is true
that tasks might take place after a project's required finish deadline but
that's something else entirely - that's a project that is finishing late.
But the project end date and the project's finish deadline date are two
different things.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Kevin F." <Kevin microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Conditonally formatting tasks

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 10:51 AM PDT

Basically, I don't understand the syntax of VB. My department column
is Outline1, though I guess I can switch that to Text1 if that makes
things any easier. I know that I want to do this much:

Case "Accounting"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjMaroon
Case "Customer Service"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjNavy
Case "Manufacturing"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjPurple
Case "Shipping"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjOlive
Case "Recievng"
SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False
Font Color:=pjTeal

The problem is I don't understand how to use the beginning stuff (e.g.
"For Each tskT In ActiveProject.Tasks") to make the script run without
returning errors.

Thanks again for the feedback.

How do i calculate the difference between start and end dates?

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 10:33 AM PDT

In article <com>,
Dennis Meyer <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Dennis,
You're welcome.
John

Can I print out a Gantt chart only? (excluding the Gantt table)

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 07:20 AM PDT

Thanks Jan- I'd tried everything but that!

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

how I can not show duration, start and finish in task

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 06:51 AM PDT

You can't leave them blank but that doesn't mean you have to pay any
attention to them. You shouldn't be entering dates in the start and finish
columns anyway so that shouldn't be an issue - those fields are intended to
be calculated for you except in certain relatively rare situations. The
leaves the duration field - just leave it at the default "1?" entry, the
question mark indicating that no duration estimate has been entered. After
you have completed the list of tasks and perhaps even after setting up the
dependency links between them, you can come back and enter the durations.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Mayoli R." <Mayoli microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How calculate Percentage of Work Scheduled

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 05:56 AM PDT

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com>
wrote:
 


Steve,
Where in the world are you able to find a plumber at $20/hr (at least
one who knows his bonnet from his escutcheon)?

John

Resource allocations based on availability

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 02:15 AM PDT

Your statement "available for specific hours within a specific time frame"
is a clue how to proceed. The maximum availability percent is NOT a measure
of the number of hours during the day the resource is available. IF a
resource's maximum availability is 50% is does NOT mean he's available 4
hours per day. It means that when he's assigned to a task for 1 day, he's
going to be doing other thangs as well and so only gets accomplished what
COULD have been done in 4 hours if he wasn't distracted. But from the
project schedule perspective, he's working on that task for 8 hours, not 4.
In order to show he can only work on the project 4 hours a day, you need to
modify his calendar so it shows 4 hours per day as thye work hours, not 8,
using those specific hours he can work on your project. You have him in the
morning and he's doing something else non-project related during the
afternoon for example.

Here's the difference in how such scenarios are handled. You have a task
starting Monday at 8 am and you have estimated it will take 1 day. You
assign Joe Resource to it at 50% because that's his maximum. You'll find
the task starts Mon 8am, ends Mon 5pm, and generates 4 man-hours of work
output. OTOH, you assign Bill Resource to it. Bill's calendar shows his
hours of work are 8-12 only. You assign him to the task 100%. The task now
starts Mon 8am, end Tue 12noon, and generates 8 man-hours of work output.
If you look at the usage view for each assignment with a time frame expanded
out to show hour-level detail, with Joe's assignment you'll see he's
scheduled to be working 1/2 hour out of each hour through the full work day.
If you look at Bill's, he's scheduled to work 1 hour for each morning hour
but nothing during the afternoons. So you need to decide, which model is
the most accurate description of your particular scenario?


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



"Resource" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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where is the physical .mpp file stored on saving offine in MS Proj

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 01:51 AM PDT

planetreddy --

Please ask this question in the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup,
as your question is specifically a Server question. Hope this helps.

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


"planetreddy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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OT - Google Group support

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 07:18 AM PDT


JackD wrote: 

Thanks, Jack! Didn't occur to me until after I'd posted that there
might be something wrong on Google's end. I always think I must have
done or be doing something wrong! But it makes sense. My groups came
back later in the day.

Row height will not change.

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 04:16 AM PDT

I just managed to fix it. I ran the Gant Wizard and this seems to have fixed
the problem, however I have lost the changes I made to the colour of the bars
- more work!
--
Kind Regards
John.


"davegb" wrote:
 

Report Estimated times - versus made real Hours

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 03:44 AM PDT

Thanks Rod

"Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> escribió en el mensaje
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Update as Scheduled button inserts an incorrect 100%

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 01:46 AM PDT

I was only giving an example and the length of the task doesn't affect
it. Are you sure you hit the "update as scheduled" and not one of the
other specific percentage complete buttons by accident?

How about the time scale of the Gantt timeline - what was it set to?
The only time I've seen anything like what you describe is it does
round up to show progress through the end of whatever unit includes
the current date. So if today was Wednesday and the timeline was set
to show "weeks" as its granularity, the "update as scheduled" would
should progress through the end of the current week, jumping the gun
by a couple of days. Could that account for what you're seeing?

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

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:30:03 -0700, Jim Trickett
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

project tracking

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:09 PM PDT


cameron wrote: 
Don't know of any way to do that in Project. You might try doing it in
Excel.
 

Multiple tasks for multiple units?

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 02:27 PM PDT

Thanks for your help. I'm a Project newbie and just wasn't quite sure how I
was going to lay out this very large schedule.

--sf

"davegb" wrote:
 

Resource Pool Links

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 01:23 PM PDT

Thanks Brian. I will give this a shot.

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

Tasks rolled up under summary tasks.

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 01:21 PM PDT

Right click on the column header.
Choose "Customize fields"
In the dialog box that shows up check the settings for "Calculation for task
and group summary rows". If it is not set to "use formula" then that is your
problem.

--
-Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html
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"schemr" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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task and 
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you. 

adding resources without Windows accounts

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 12:00 PM PDT

Dale,
That was excellent. I tried it and it worked perfectly. Thanks very much. I
was trying to add to PS before adding to the enterprise resource pool.

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Actual dates change when calendar changes or status date changes.

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:52 AM PDT

You are most welcome Scott. Glad to know you found the solution!

Julie
"Scott27" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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fixing parameters

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 04:09 AM PDT

Hi,

By fixing the task type you can define how Project will react to changes in
Work, Duration, or Assignment Units (which one of the three is modified when
any of the three is changed by the user).
HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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"sekweles" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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Can a Project Standard file be imported into Project Professional

Posted: 07 Aug 2005 10:39 AM PDT

Ira --

Yes, Project Server 2003 needs SQL Server installed as all of the enter
project and enterprise resource data is stored in a SQL Server database. In
the future, if you have questions specifically related to Project Server,
you might consider asking them in the microsoft.public.project.server
newsgroup which is totally devoted to Project Server 2002 and 2003
questions. Hope this helps.

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


"Ira Smith" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Alternatives to MS project

Posted: 06 Aug 2005 06:25 PM PDT

Your post did help as it gave me things to think about. Being a new user to
Project, at this time I do not think I'll attempt to utilize the potential
Access data store feature. While I understand it might be nice, it would
also limit me in some ways for which I do not want to be limited yet.

Just knowing that large files are a problem helps me inmy world. That gives
me the knowledge ahead of time to just keep my files relatively small and not
attempt a whopper of a project plan that is supposed to cover the full life
span of a specific product from inception and all of its lifetime changes.
I'll just keep the files small and focused on specific phases and in doing so
should avoid the bigger issues of extremely large file sizes, etc.

Thanks,
Ira


"davegb" wrote: 

Import MS Project tasks to Outlook task list

Posted: 06 Aug 2005 02:30 AM PDT

 

You could convince the PM to try the 3rdparty app tasklynx (99$s). it
synchronizes
project & outlook tasks. i cant speak to its robustness, features or
mis-features because i havent tried it but it seems to be the way to do
what you want without project server and without trying to roll your
own macros. .