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Grouping Tasks Microsoft Project

Grouping Tasks

Posted: 01 Nov 2005 06:10 AM PST

In article <com>,
Jim Jones <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Jim,
It sounds like the Grouping function is what you want. Look for
"Grouping" in the Project help file.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Hour control of how else ?

Posted: 01 Nov 2005 05:57 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Jan H-L" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Jan,
First of all, you shouldn't be entering either the task Start or Finish,
that's Project's job. Except in a few isolated cases (e.g. a task starts
independently of all other tasks and does not start when the project
starts), the task information you should be entering are:
1. Task Name - performance tasks should be in action verb format
2. Task Duration - whether in minutes, hours, days, etc. (Note: Task
Duration is NOT the same as Work effort although if a resource is
assigned at 100% the values in those two fields will be the same.)
3. Linkages between tasks - this sets up the logical flow of the
activities - the default is finish-to-start
4. Resource assignments - the people or material necessary to complete
the task

Given the above information, Project calculates a schedule. That is, it
will set up all task start and finish dates (and times if the option to
display time is selected under Tools/Options/View tab). Project will
also calculate Cost based on the resource pay rate x Work hours plus any
Fixed Cost associated with the task.

The user "controls" resources and cost by developing a realistic plan
and good project management techniques (e.g. workarounds when things
don't go as originally planned).

For some good reference material, you might want to go to our MVP
website at: http://www.mvps.org/project/links.htm
and take a look at fellow MVP, Mike Glen's series on Project lessons and
techniques.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Creating a Project with VBA (MS Project 2003 Pro)?

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 03:19 PM PST

I copied it to the Developers Newsgroup for MS Project.

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Historic Resource Costs

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 01:36 PM PST

Gerard,
Hello. yes I posted that last question too. I was hoping someone could point
me in the right direction for coding advice as I cannot do this all by hand
with so many employees. Unfortunately, like many others I have inherited this
ms project file...
Do you know of any other places I can look for a little VBA/ MS project help
with this?
Thanks so much!
Jenn

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Why are tasks being assigned to non-working days?

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 11:57 AM PST

JodyC --

To which calendar did you add the holidays? Is this calendar set as the
Base Calendar for each resource listed in the Resource Sheet view of your
project? Let us know.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
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"We wrote the book on Project Server"


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Vacation Schedules on Large Projects How do you handle them - Best

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 08:20 AM PST

We are not using server - they have ordered it along with SQL, so maybe in
the future it will be running for us but that will be to late as I need to
find something to manage now.

I do not want to manage it in excel as I want Proj to adjust dates to tasks
when people have vacation. WIth 80 people and 3 weeks vacation min. for
everyone, forgetting about all that time off would be a mistake.

Have any other thoughts? Maybe someone else will have some ideas for me?

"Michael Balda" wrote:
 

VB problem

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 08:10 AM PST

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


WD,
What exactly are you referring to when you say, "... the set ref command
...."? The only way I know to set references is via the "addfromfile" or
"addfromguid" and either of those must be set with an event macro prior
to attempting to run a macro where the reference is required. But I'm
always willing to learn new techniques.

John
Project MVP

VB offset error from Jack Dahgren's Code

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 08:06 AM PST

What does xlRow = at that time?
I just tried it with the Excel 11 (2003) object library and it works fine.
I developed it on excel 2000.

I suspect you are missing some of the code. Copy and paste the whole thing
again. The first 4 lines should be:

Option Explicit
Dim xlRow As Excel.Range
Dim xlCol As Excel.Range
Sub TaskHierarchy()

If you haven't defined xlRow then you will get an Object required error.

You can also get rid of the dwn and rgt functions if you like and just use
plain old offset within the code. This example is supposed to demonstrate
passing parameters (very simple ones) so that is the reason they are there
in the first place.

--
-Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit
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Resource Calculations

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 06:17 AM PST

Hi Robert,

In that case, try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24.
Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project
information can be seen at this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Robert wrote: 

A new year

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 05:56 AM PST

You're welcome, Jim :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Jim Jones wrote: 

How to hide inactive resources

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 05:46 AM PST

Hi Chris, 
:)

Of course it is. It's always interesting to compare different points of
view!

Gérard

zooming in on task pane - not gantt chart

Posted: 30 Oct 2005 08:04 PM PST

You're welcome, Kimi :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Kimi Himi wrote: 

colour code milestones in calendar view?

Posted: 30 Oct 2005 06:14 PM PST

Benjiluck:

You might want to use a custom field (flag/text) to establish the difference
in the milestones or you can use a tag. It sounds like a custom field to
define the differences would be best route and then you can color code that.

"Benjiluck" wrote:
 

Constraint - Start no earlier than

Posted: 30 Oct 2005 11:21 AM PST

>That's very strange behaviour. Are you scheduling tasks to start ASAP?

Yes. If I enter a new task, it says “As Soon As Possible.”
 

Yes
 

Yes. I have several and they are all FS
 

Yes
 
was giving you problems should start on either the first working moment
after its predecessor finishes or the constraint date, whichever is later. 

I dunno. Maybe it’s just me I’ve always found Project to be a little quirky
like this. I can usually solve a problem but it seems to invariably involve
taking a task out and putting it back in.


"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

Saving Reports to MS Word

Posted: 29 Oct 2005 05:33 AM PDT

In article <hip9f.5466$bigpond.net.au>,
"Bob Sinclair" <com> wrote:
 

Bob,
You're welcome.

John

Work Week MSP98 (Newbie Question)

Posted: 29 Oct 2005 05:07 AM PDT

Wow - great Mike, thanks for the heads-up. I'll check all these articles
over the next couple of days.

Appreciate the support ;)

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Kahuna
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Wrap text in Microsoft Project 2000

Posted: 29 Oct 2005 02:27 AM PDT

Thanks Rod,

When using 'Print preview' on various printers, the problem continues to
exist; i.e. the text remains on 01 line when printed but is wrapped in the
original doent. It also occurs in a similar fashion when I .pdf the
doent.

Suggestions ??? Thanks

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Visual Basic Code

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 11:12 AM PDT

Also more info on creating your own here:
http://zo-d.com/blog/archives/programming.html

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wondering 

Critical Path - Critical Chain Tracking of Projects

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 09:50 AM PDT

Stuart,
You need to be able to highlight the Resource Critical Path, as
explained in Eric Eyttewaal's book, Dynamic Scheduling with MSP 2003.
By highlighting the RCP you will be able to keep an eye on tasks that
are either driven by logical dependencies (CPM) or by resource
dependencies.
In his book Eric explains a manual method for highlighting the RCP. As
well, a macro is available by license that will do this for you
automatically.
Yes, this is a feature that should be available in MSP. One of the very
big limitations of the CPM is that it does not take resource
vailability into account.

Charlie Ashmore

Predecessor Driven Completion

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 07:59 AM PDT

That was great. Thanks, it's working fantastic now.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

time phased network diagram

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 07:28 AM PDT

Thanks. I think we are going to try out the stuff from critical tools. I
just wanted to try to make sure I was not missing something in Project.

I haven't seen Eric in a while. If he gets back in, I'll say you said HI.
jlb

"davegb" wrote:
 

PPBES and Project

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 06:58 AM PDT

Sorry. The government...espcially the DOD and NOAA are using a busineess
process called: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Sytem
(PPBES). Nothing magic...but it is a well established in the government.

It's obviosly cyclic, with no project start or stop date.

Thanks/cascott

"davegb" wrote:
 

Hiding Subproject summary tasks?

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 03:33 AM PDT

Thanks for that!

If I grouped the tasks by 'Project', 'Resource Initials', 'Outline Number'.
Can I still 'flag' the summary tasks there? Or is there another way to do it?

"davegb" wrote:
 

Task splitting - a process, not a parameter?

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 02:50 AM PDT

Hi George,

Split Parts of a task can be read using the SplitParts method.
You can read the help through the object browser.
To help you onthe way, here is the help on the SplitParts Object (which has
a count, a start and a finish property) - go on reading I comment on
asignment splist below-

SplitPart Object, SplitParts Collection Object






Represents a task portion. The SplitPart object is a member of the
SplitParts collection.

Using the SplitPart Object

Use SplitParts(Index), where Index is the task portion index number, to
return a single SplitPart object. The following example lists the start and
finish times of each task portion of the task in the active cell.

Dim Part As Long, Portions As String

For Part = 1 To ActiveCell.Task.SplitParts.Count
With ActiveCell.Task
Portions = Portions & "Task portion " & Part & ": Start on " & _
.SplitParts(Part).Start & ", Finish on " & _
.SplitParts(Part).Finish & vbCrLf
End With
Next Part

MsgBox Portions
Using the SplitParts Collection

Use the SplitParts property to return a SplitParts collection. The following
example returns the number of task portions for each task in the active
project.

Dim T As Task

For Each T In ActiveProject.Tasks
If Not (T Is Nothing) Then
MsgBox T.Name & ": " & T.SplitParts.Count
End If

Next T
Use the Split method (Task object) to add a SplitPart object to the
SplitParts collection. (The Split method creates a split in a task.) The
following example creates a split in the task from Wednesday to Monday.

ActiveCell.Task.Split "10/1/97", "10/6/97"
-------------------------------------------------

There is no method for asignment splist but they can be discovered by
looking for zero-work periods using the timescaledata method and the
timescalevalues object.

Hope this helps,


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