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How do I spread a 5 day duration over a 30 day time span Microsoft Project

How do I spread a 5 day duration over a 30 day time span Microsoft Project

How do I spread a 5 day duration over a 30 day time span

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 09:08 AM PDT

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

Kimi,
OK, don't get confused about Duration time and Work time - they are two
separate entities in Project. Duration is the time span (normally
measured in working days between the task Start and Finish) and Work,
(normally expressed in hours), is the amount of effort one or more
resources will need to complete the task. If a resource is assigned to
work on the task 100%, then Work hours WILL equal Duration hours.

You may or may not want a fixed duration type task, it depends on
whether the task is effort driven or not. Let's assume you do want a
fixed duration task, that can be set in one of two ways. If you want all
your tasks to be fixed duration (the default is fixed units, i.e. fixed
resource assignment allocation) go to Tools/Options/Schedule tab and
change the "Default task type". If you only want a particular task to be
fixed duration, select the task and hit the Task Information icon or
menu item. On the Advanced tab change the "Task Type" and uncheck the
"effort driven" box next to it.

Once the above is done, enter the 30 days (I'll assume you want working
days instead of calendar days) into the Duration field. Assign your
resource or resources. Then in the Work field, (you will probably need
to add that to whatever view you are using), enter 40 hours. You should
see the resource allocation change to 17% in the Resources Name field.
Now you have a task of 30 days duration with an assigned resource who
will spend 40 hours sometime during that 30 day period working on the
task.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Function definitions in customized fields

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 07:57 AM PDT

In article <com>,
"Andrew K" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Andrew,
You're welcome. The most likely cause, (if the word "ERROR" didn't
appear in the field column), is that Project is not set for automatic
calculation. Either hit "F9" (manual calculate) or go to
Tools/Options/Calculation tab and set calculation to automatic.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Roll Back Completed Tasks to show complete before project starts -

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 06:55 AM PDT

Hallo,

Yes, definitely.
Have you tried working with an earlier project start date?

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Copying a filtered view from Project 2003

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 02:49 AM PDT

Hi Jude,
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.

Julie
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Eval expired

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 01:40 PM PDT

Thanks for the info. I will give 'em a call.

"JackD" wrote:
 

need to copy import export maps from old pc to new pc

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 12:27 PM PDT

Thanks so much, this worked great.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Formatting task text

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 11:16 AM PDT

Dominic:
Yes, this makes perfect sense. We will try using a new view with the
formatting. Thanks so much.
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"Dominic Moss" wrote:
 

Multiple views of a single project plan

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 08:31 AM PDT

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

dsm,
By "high level tasks" I assume you mean the Summary Lines. First filter
out the Summary Lines by only showing lines where the Summary field is
equal to "no" (also remember to uncheck the box at the bottom of the
filter definition window for showing related Summary lines). Then sort
by Start Date.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Multi-line resource name or text fields?

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 07:12 AM PDT

In article <googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:
 

Dave,
Your're welcome but it sounds like you found your own solution anyway.
I assume you had them set the list separator under their regional and
language settings from "," to " ", otherwise the word wrap idea won't
work.

John

Redistribution of effort on adding new resource

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 02:44 AM PDT


Amit wrote: 

To come up with a formula, I'd have to do a series of these types of
events, then figure out how project is doing the calculation. But when
I first looked at the numbers, without having Project available, it
looked reasonable because when you added the third resource, the work
of the other 2 decreased in "reasonable proportion", as did the
duration (roughly a third). Which is what I expect with an effort
driven task.
How project handles these things doesn't always make sense to many of
us. But once you understand what it does, it's usually fairly
predictable, given you know the "rules" by which it operates.
Hope this helps in your world.

Off Topic: Capturing Requirements

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 01:28 AM PDT

You're welcome, Hardip - good luck in your search :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


wrote: 

Licensing Info

Posted: 03 Oct 2005 11:35 PM PDT

You need an SQL licence for every user/device (depending on licencing mode) that derives information from the SQL Server.
In your case it is dependent on the hardware configuration of the SQL server what would be the best value
to either aquire between 70 and 120 more SQL CALS "or" switch over to a per processor licence.

This is a concept called multiplexing and it has been discussed here and resides in the google groups archives now.

http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.project.server/browse_frm/thread/6b0345a602ddd789/2e792e5a4f02f654?q=multiplexing+&rnum=1&hl=en#2e79 2e5a4f02f654

Two Things

1.) Most Microsoft people have not known much about PS licencing.
2.) Watch out for buying SQL 2000 and then needing to go to 2005 when your business application or Project Server
suggests it. You don't want to have to buy twice in a short period of time so you may want to consider a software assurance
situation.


"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... 

Changing the number of days in a week

Posted: 03 Oct 2005 09:51 AM PDT

See my previous post "calendar durations (again)" where I had the same problem.

BCWP Incorrect Summary Tasks

Posted: 02 Oct 2005 07:49 PM PDT

hi Brad,

I applied manual calculations and the BCWP should be 19,868 as you have
stated.
However we still need to cosider the Duration and the timephased costs.

Note that Project calculates BCWP at the task level differently than at the
assignment level. See:

http://www.ksu.edu/InfoTech/epm/training/msproject2002/19%20Earned%20Value.doc.

Regards,

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