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Setting up Project for one-person projects Microsoft Project

Setting up Project for one-person projects

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 03:21 PM PDT

No,

But you can either fill down your name in the Resource Names column or
select all tasks before assigning yourself in the assign resources dialog so
that you quickly add your self to all tasks.

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Project MVP
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"Rex Eastbourne" <com> wrote in message
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Summary Bar Finish Slacks

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 09:41 AM PDT

BBoler wrote:
 

Do you have Calculation set to Manual or Automatic? (Tools | Options |
Calculation)

The only thing I can think of would be if calculation was set to manual
and the slack was not being updated or something. Short of that I cant
think of how this would happen without seeing the project. you can email
it to me if you like and I can take a look.

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Large Scale Timeline workable?

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 09:17 AM PDT

Staceman,

If you have access to a plotter, that will be your best bet for printing the
fewest pages. You will still be constrained by the paper width the plotter
uses (i.e., multiple horizontal banners), but you should be able to go into
the Printer Properties and set up a custom paper size that best fits your
needs.

Hope this helps! :)
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Don L.


"Staceman" wrote:
 

How do I turn the personalised menu off in Project?

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 08:22 AM PDT

I disable this in EVERY application I use. Can anything be more annoying?

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"Brian K - Project MVP" <com> wrote in message
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how can I control the split task?

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 07:19 AM PDT

In article <com>,
"San Francisco" <San Francisco @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Francisco,
Unfortunately Project does not make the fields for split start and stop
available in Project views. I know of only two ways to replicate spits
on multiple tasks. If resources are assigned one method is to show the
Task Usage view and then manually manipulate the Work to create dead
time (i.e. splits) as desired. A second method is use VBA and set up a
loop for all tasks that are to be split. Within the loop use the Split
Method to establish split start and end times.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Dynamic duration of task

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 06:49 AM PDT

Peter is incorrect. MSP does support hammock task and you can create and use
them in this situation.



"Peter Hulse" wrote:
 

I don't see the Open from Project Server dialog box

Posted: 28 Jul 2005 06:05 AM PDT

Sorted now, thanks.

"Smiffy" <com> wrote in message
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complete through, how calculated on summary bar

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 02:36 PM PDT

For some reason I thought the question was about how progress was computed
for summary tasks. If it's for performance tasks he's asking, the Complete
Through date would simply be the Start Date plus the Actual Duration not
including non-working time would it not, same as the ProjDateAdd() function?

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Steve House [MVP]
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"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message
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Documentation on Cost Rate Tables

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 01:34 PM PDT

Others have answered your immediate question but adding my 2 cents, I'd
suggest you be extremely cautious about trying to track revenues in MS
Project. It's not an accounting or a time and billing application and
attemtping to use it as such is likely to be highly misleading, potentially
with disasterous results for your business. The costs it's tracking are
intended to be an estimate of your costs of doing the actual project work
and to monitor progress against that budget. What you bill your clients to
do the project for them also needs to include other overheads, rents, costs
of capital, depreciation, and profit margins - all factors that Project
essentially doesn't even know exist. If you try to track revenues in the
project through the use of custom fields, Project will post the cost of the
task against your budget when the task is worked and will assume the
revenues have been received as the work was performed, being paid instantly
as the customer's obligation is accrued. This is obviously not realistic.
Use Project for planning the schedule and estimating the project's costs -
it does a great job of that - but don't try to get it to do double duty as a
project accounting application as well. It just isn't the right tool for
that job.

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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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"Skip Purdy" <postalias> wrote in message
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Resource Allocation and how it works

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 01:21 PM PDT

Hi,

Allow me to bump in.
When you set Resource Leveling to Manual, after having applied all
improvements you can think of manually, you can still do leveling through
"Level Now".
That is the most used way to level.
HTH

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Project 
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Level 
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More than 256 characters? (MS Project 2000)

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 11:57 AM PDT

Sorry, only the notes field can do that and you are already using it.
Perhaps you can insert something in the notes field to separate the two
types of text. A line of ************** for example?

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"Hilary" <com> wrote in message
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Decimal Finish Slack

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 08:06 AM PDT

I read that solution on other posts but I don't think that's my problem. I
don't have any decimals in my duration field, only in the finish slack field.
At one time I thought this was caused by split tasks but this time I don't
have any split tasks.

"John" wrote:
 

Text wrapping in Pred / Succ column

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 06:01 AM PDT

In article <com>,
"Neill" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Neill,
Glad you found the elusive setting - sometimes I have trouble finding
those things myself.

John

Daily resource requirement

Posted: 27 Jul 2005 03:40 AM PDT

This is one of the reasons you would consider Project Server - this is a
default view in Project Web Access
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Skip Purdy | Principal Consultant | TDT Consulting Group


"Dammika Perera" wrote:
 

How to let project assign work to multiple resources unevenly?

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 10:55 PM PDT

hhspiny wrote:
 

If you dont know it how is Project supposed to know it for you? How would
project know their schedule unless you enter it into their calendar? you
are asking Project to know specific things about your resources that you
say you dont know. Project is not designed to schedule for you. It
provides you the tools to schedule.

You could edit the calendars of your resources to show that you are only
available 6 hours a day or that your helper is only available X hours a
day. This might also help.

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Brian K - Project MVP
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Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
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Newbie question

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 10:00 PM PDT

Thanks guys

I've got my team to read this. It's making sense to them as well. I'll
have to investigate levelling a little more.

We're getting around the variations by only scheduling 1 month at a time.
Our users priorities change too much to schedule more than that anyway. So
when people look at us as a resource, they will only see the next months
work. This might create problems in the long run, but it should work for now.

Thanks again.

Auto Calculating Fields

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 08:17 PM PDT

Hi,

Duration and cost are not custom fields.
Duration is roolled up in a sence that duration on the summary line reflects
the difference between start and finish (start of the ealiest task, end of
the latest). Indeed, sometimes changi,ng the duration of a task influences
duration of the summaryu task, sometimes it doesn't.

Fixed Cost is NOT rolled up to the summary lines, but Total cos ("Cost") is.
HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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microsoft project 2000 custom critical path

Posted: 26 Jul 2005 01:26 PM PDT

I have taken this discussion to the Development Discussion Board becuase I
think my problem may require VBA. The problem is that I don't want the CP
calculated for EVERY endpoint in my schedule, only three specific ones.

"Jim Spiller" wrote: