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Asigning multiple resources with delay Microsoft Project

Asigning multiple resources with delay

Posted: 25 Aug 2005 03:18 AM PDT

In MS Project use the Resource Schedule View. This view lets you define the
dates when the resources start work on the tasks. In your scenario simply
define the date (5th day) when Bob joins Dave in coding.

Secondly you need to take into account the work involved. When Bob joins
Dave how much work would have been completed. Then define how they will share
the work, i.e., from 5th day onward how much work is allocated to Bob.

If Dave has to do 60h and Bob 20h then you will get the schedule
automatically calculated by MS project as 7.5 days. This considers that when
Bob joined Dave, Dave had done 50% of the work and the remaining was shared
50% each.

Kind regards,
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"cz" wrote:
 

Why and how does Project calculate duration in decimal amounts?

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 03:37 PM PDT

Hi,

Maybe you should also read
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
Faq5: Default working hours
That is the most common reason for decimal durations.
HTH

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"groggydoggie" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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How do I put a watermark (i.e. "DRAFT") on a MSProject printout?

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 03:15 PM PDT

Mike,
This will work when printing on normal paper (letter or legal), but I
frequently have to present to an audience and larger paper is sometimes
needed from a plotter. Since the paper source is a 36in wide roll,
reprinting from the same paper is not doable.

I guess I have an expectation that since Word has this feature, why not all
MS products?

Thanks for suggestion using Word, though.

Mark

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

View Resource Assignments in PWA

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 01:07 PM PDT

jib --

Select the Timesheet view, then click the View Options tab and select the
Show Schedule Work option. Hope this helps.

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"jlbreyer" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Fiscal Month Calendar

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 11:52 AM PDT

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

SpaceCamel,
As Mike indicated, Project can vary the fiscal year start but it cannot
handle company financial calendars. Through the use of VBA however, that
feature can be accommodated - I've done it a couple times myself.

John
Project MVP

Duration is not adding up

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 07:19 AM PDT

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

Nick,
Mike explained how Duration of a Summary Line is calculated by Project.
However, I note in your second post that you are talking about "time".
Perhaps you are looking at the Work field and the Work field of a
Summary Line WILL equal the sum of Work for all subtasks - unless
Calculation (Tools/Options/Calculation tab) is set to manual.

Duration time and Work time are two different entities in Project.
Duration is the time (normally in days) during which a task will/needs
to be accomplished. Conversely, Work time is the effort by one or more
resources to actually perform the task. Depending on how resources are
assigned, the two values (minutes, hours, days, etc.) may or may not be
equal.

If we still are not "getting it", please elaborate so we can give you
the answer you need (although it may not be the answer you want or
expect). For example, what "numbers" don't add up?

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Formulas and functions

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 06:26 AM PDT

In article <com>,
"Cynthis PMP" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Cynthis,
As I indicated, I am more comfortable with VBA than complex formulas (my
head starts to spin). I have never used graphical indicators with VBA so
this was a learning experience for me too.

The macro is set up to use spare Task field Number1 to display the
indicators (I chose a simple sphere). You didn't indicate what you
wanted to do with Summary Lines. Since % Complete for Summary Lines is
calculated by Project there is always some argument as to its validity.
As written indicators for Summary Lines are not displayed. If you want
indicators for Summary Lines, simply comment out (insert an apostrophe
at the beginning of the line) the first line of code and remove the
comment indicator from the second line of code.

Herewith is the macro. If you need help in setting it up and running it,
let me know. Note: When you copy and paste the code into the VB editor
pay attention to line continuation indicators (i.e. space and
underscore).

Sub DurIndicators()
CustomFieldProperties FieldID:=pjCustomTaskNumber1,
attribute:=pjFieldAttributeNone, _
graphicalindicators:=True
For Each t In ActiveProject.Tasks
If Not t Is Nothing Then
CurVal = t.PercentComplete / 100
shouldbe = Application.DateDifference(t.Start,
ActiveProject.CurrentDate)
ratio = shouldbe / t.Duration
t.Number1 = 3
If ratio >= 0.5 And ratio < 0.75 And CurVal < ratio Then
t.Number1 = 1
If ratio >= 0.75 And CurVal < ratio Then t.Number1 = 2

CustomFieldIndicatorAdd FieldID:=pjCustomTaskNumber1,
test:=pjCompareEquals, _
Value:=1, indicatorID:=pjIndicatorSphereYellow
CustomFieldIndicatorAdd FieldID:=pjCustomTaskNumber1,
test:=pjCompareEquals, _
Value:=2, indicatorID:=pjIndicatorSphereRed
CustomFieldIndicatorAdd FieldID:=pjCustomTaskNumber1,
test:=pjCompareEquals, _
Value:=3, indicatorID:=pjIndicatorSphereGreen
End If
Next t
End Sub

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Early and Late S Curve.

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 03:58 AM PDT

Thanks John,

I wasn't going to write a piece of vba, as this only has to be performed
when we re-baseline a schedule.

I was using the timescaled analysis facilities. the only solution I came up
with is to copy the schedule to a temporary file, copy the late dates over
the early and perform a timescaled analysis to export the data to excel.

But the company I work for has the option to upgrade to project professional
2003, from 2000. But I don't know what the advantages would be to advise them
to do so.

Stuart

"John" wrote:
 

Fixed end date with flexible start date

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 03:22 AM PDT

Thanks for your reply, Jan.

Regards,
Barbara

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Materials scheduling

Posted: 24 Aug 2005 02:49 AM PDT


Helen wrote: 
Right now my travel schedule is pretty much limited to home/work here
in Denver. Would love to tour a French boatyard! And to see Normandy
(unless an invasion is in progress)! Love those places, as long as I
don't have to live in them (lived in a boatyard in Ft Lauderdale for 2
weeks some years back). Hope all goes well with your project.

Summary Rows

Posted: 23 Aug 2005 06:27 PM PDT

Thanks, all! Problem solved: I had read the HELP item "the default link type
is finish-to-start," to mean that subsequent tasks are linked by default.
Thanks to Gil Sturgeon for clarifying this.

"stephanie" wrote:
 

lower the duration by adding resources

Posted: 23 Aug 2005 03:00 PM PDT


Hi sfjeffr ,

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 & 11, 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

wrote: 

Formula Question

Posted: 23 Aug 2005 08:18 AM PDT

Got it! Thank you, Jack.

Now I am trying to figure out the next piece of what I am trying to do, but
I am lost. How do I change the color of the text? Can you do that? Is
there an example formula I can look at?

To make my question clearer: Here is one formula that I got off this site
that I am now using: IIf([%
Complete]=100,"Complete",IIf((ProjDateDiff(datevalue([Finish]),Datevalue([Current
Date]),[Project Calendar])/480)>4,"Late by 5 or
More",IIf((ProjDateDiff(datevalue([Finish]),Datevalue([Current
Date]),[Project Calendar])/480)>0,"Late by 1-4","Not Late")))

In cases where the value yields either "Late by 5 or More" and "Late by
1-4", how can I change those tasks to, say, red? Is that possible?

Thanks!

Marc


"JackD" wrote:
 

Assigning multiple resource list to tasks within Project

Posted: 23 Aug 2005 04:10 AM PDT

Many thanks for your response Mike, I pretty much thought that would be case
after fiddling with Project for the past few days, but glad to have the
experts opinion to prove that I was not going mad :o)
Dave

"Mike Glen" wrote: