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Where did the + / - go? Microsoft Project

Where did the + / - go?

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 07:53 AM PDT

Jan De Messemaeker wrote:
 

There is not an Outline toolbar in 2003 Professional, at least not in the
English version.

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Removing Blank Space on Gantt Chart

Posted: 13 Aug 2005 06:45 PM PDT

Hi Bob,

I'm afraid you can't :-(

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Can percent complete be expressed in decimal format?

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 08:51 PM PDT

If you want the remaining duration to be in whole numbers then enter it in
whole numbers and let project calculate % complete.
To do this effectively insert the the "actual duration" column and the
"remaining duration" column. When you update, enter the new value for actual
duration and the amount remaining. Project will then calculate the percent
complete for you.

Alternatively you could write some VBA which would go through and round
remaining duration to the nearest integer after you have updated percent
complete.

I'm not sure I understand the need for integer values though. Why are they
necessary?

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Can percent complete be expressed in decimals?

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 08:48 PM PDT

We agree that it should be after the status date and if you reschedule the
incomplete work to take place after the status date your early finish will
show as it should. What I'm trying to tell you is updating the project's
progress involves more than merely setting a percent complete. That's only
the first step in a 2 step procedure - and you're leaving out a crucial part
of the process. If I have a 2 day task that was scheduled for last week,
Mon and Tue, and mark it as 50% complete, it will show work took place on
Monday but has not taken place on Tuesday. But as of that moment, Project
doesn't know if it really didn't take place and needs to be moved up into
the future or if we just haven't gotten around to posting the data for last
Tuesday's work yet. If you now reschedule the remaining work, Project will
split the task and move the remaining portion forward, in the process also
changing the early finish date to the day after your status date as it
should. If you don't reschedule uncompleted work, Project doesn't know it's
supposed to recalculate those early finish dates. You have to do both
tasks - post actuals and reschedule remaining.
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Sharing Resources Across Multiple Projects

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 06:03 PM PDT

Fusion,

Just in case you meant "resource pool" in an HR way, and not in a MS Project
environment....

You would need to connect all of your project plans to a "resource pool" MS
Project plan. The way I have done this in the past is to create a project
plan solely for the use of this purpose (i.e., resource pool). All of the
resources that you have access to use are entered into the resource sheet for
this project plan. The only tasks that I have entered were for
vacation/sick/training days, but you don't need to actually add any tasks in
the plan at all.

All of the project plans that contain the "work" are then connected to the
resource pool by openning the "pool" and the "work" MS Project files (so that
they are both open at the same time) and in the "work" project file selecting
Tools | Resource Sharing | Share Resources..., then select the Use resources
(From:) radio button, and then select the resource pool project plan from the
drop-down. You will need to open and "link" (to) the resource "pool" project
plan from each of your "work" plans.

You can perform all of the "linkings" first. Then check the resource sheet
in the "pool" to see if all of your resources are present. If not, you can
add them via the Resource Sheet view.

If you have accomplished this feat, then the fun with "Leveling" starts, but
thats another subject....

Hope this helps! :)
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Don L.


"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

DotProject references needed

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 03:42 PM PDT

You should be able to find some help and assistance for dotproject on its
home site support forums located at http://www.dotproject.net/vbulletin/

Hope this helps.
Ira


"Yves M." wrote:
 

How do I?

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 03:30 PM PDT

CBland,

Reviewing Mikes TechTrax will give you a more solid understanding of
how MS Project "thinks" with respect to Work, Duration and Units. This
will help you in the future. For your particular problem at hand, try:

1. Create the task (assumption is a Fixed Unit task Type)
2. Establish the 10 day Duration
3. Assign the 16 hours Work
4. As a last step, assign the Resource
Becuase you established the Duration and Work first, then assigned the
Resource, MS Project spreads the 16 hours of Work across the 10 day
Duration. The end result is the Resource will be assigned to the task
at only 20%.


Hope this helps!

How to get the end date to change when updating a task?

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 03:00 PM PDT

It's hard to understand just what you're expecting to happen here. I have a
task that is originally 10 days duration. We've worked on it 4 days. I
enter a remaining duration of 15 days. 4 days worked plus 15 to go means we
originally underestimated the required time to do the work and it should
have been 19 days. Ergo, the duration changes. Now if you need to preserve
the original 10 days estimate for tracking purposes, that's what a baseline
is all about. When you make updates as above, the scheduled duration
changes but the original saved baseline doesn't, giving you a static
reference point in order to compare actual performance with original
estimates.

Whether the early finish would change or not or how it would change really
depends on the scenario. I have a 40 hours task starting Mon 8am. It's
early finish is Friday 5pm. I show it starts on time and is 20% done -
actual duration 1 day, remaining duration 4 days. Early finish stays the
same. But if it started Tuesday instead, early finish becomes the following
Mon. OR if it starts on time, 1 day actual duration but 3 days remaining,
that makes the task 25% done and the early finish moves up to Thurs. So
when you enter a start date, an actual duration, and/or a remaining duration
the early finish may or may not change depending on the specific mix of
parameters you've input. For instance, 1 day shorter duration combined with
a 1 day later than scheduled start would result in an early finsh that
hasn't changed.

The following identities always hold true...

ScheduledDuration == ActualDuration + RemainingDuration.
% Complete == ActualDuration/ScheduledDuration.
For unstarted tasks, EarlyFinish ==ScheduledStart + ScheduledDuration.
For in-progress tasks, EarlyFinish==ActualStart + ScheduledDuration

As an aside, I can't imagine what advantage you get using manual calculation
mostly. Project is fundamentally a schedule calculator. If you don't let it
calculate, what's the point in using it?
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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How to capture MsgBox result and paste into Excel

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 02:52 PM PDT

Hellow again John,
Obviously, I'm not a natural programmer. Your solution is what I want to
do, but I can't figure out how to get the calculation results into the text1
field. What code would I use to replace the message box display with placing
the total number of the calculation into the text1 field?

"John" wrote:
 

export a project file for printing

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 01:01 PM PDT

Hi David,

You need to have a software product that can generate PDF files. Then you
print the project to the PDF writer. For some links to inexpensive PDF
programs see FAQ # 16 "Project Viewer" at
www.mvps.org/project

Hope this helps.

Julie
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Field Customize

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 12:09 PM PDT

You may also want to use the ProjDateDiff function.

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auto calculation problem

Posted: 12 Aug 2005 05:56 AM PDT

In article <com>,
gokhan <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

gakhan,
Ok, thanks for the very direct specific responses to my questions.
Something I forgot to ask, does this occur with more than one file? If
you haven't already you might want to try creating a fresh new test file
and see it the Summary Lines calculate properly. If they do, you may
have some file corruption in your original file. In that case, go to the
MVP website at:
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
and look at FAQ 43 - File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

If it still "fails" on a totally new file I'm not sure what else to
suggest other than a complete re-install of Project and the SP-1 update
but that is pretty drastic. Hopefully one of the other guys will have a
suggestion.

John
Project MVP