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Timescale Duration Bars = Actual Duration? Microsoft Project

Timescale Duration Bars = Actual Duration? Microsoft Project

Timescale Duration Bars = Actual Duration?

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 08:52 AM PDT

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Holland" <com> wrote:
 

Holland,
By timescale bars I assume you mean the Gantt bars. My first question
is, are you sure that is what you really want to do? The Duration field
shows working time based on a default 5 day work week at 8 hours per
day. However, elapsed time can be shown in the Duration column by either
changing the default calendar (and some options) to a 24 hour work day
or by simply entering duration values in elapsed time (e.g. 10ed for 10
elapsed days). On the other hand, the Gantt bars normally show elapsed
time. They can be configured to show working time but it would be very
confusing. For example, let's say a task starts on Monday and has a
duration of 10 days (i.e. goes through Friday of the following week).
The normal Gantt bar will show a bar from Monday through Friday of the
following week. However, if the Gantt bar was showing working time, it
would go from Monday through Wednesday of the following week. That's
because the Gantt bars always including non-working time - in this case
the weekend.

Now, it that really what you want to do?

John
Project MVP

Enterprise Project Management

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 08:06 AM PDT

Robert --

In the future, please post all Project Server questions to the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is devoted to
questions about the Microsoft Project desktop application only.

To answer your question, if the PM manually enters progress in the actual
Microsoft Project plan, he/she must do the following to "push" the changes
to each user's timesheet in PWA:

1. Click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments
2. Select the "Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option
3. Click OK

Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
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New file, adding resources changes duration, why?

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 07:07 AM PDT

Hi,

Resource working toimes are different from Project calendar working times.
HTH

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Posted: 25 Oct 2005 06:31 AM PDT

Julie,

How do I do the custom view and custom table? I don't see a selection for
them in the drop down menus.

Dave


"JulieS" wrote:
 

Assigning holiday time

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 06:26 AM PDT

I didn't know you are using Project Server.
Of course, with Project Server, the resource sharing is permanent.
In Project Server, there is the Administrative project feature for that. You
don't need a Master Project.

Gérard Ducouret

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Maximum number of selected tasks

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 02:16 AM PDT

Martin

It is exactly the same in Project 2003

You can increase the range if any of the selections can be shift clicked
first.


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Chris Marriott
UK - EPM Consultant & Trainer


"Martin Wilkinson" wrote:
 

Assign duration for 24 hour calendar

Posted: 24 Oct 2005 01:38 PM PDT

JulieS,

Thanks so much for your extra help.

You are exactly correct when you say "How would anyone looking at a schedule
be able to know if a day is 24 hours or 8 hours? It would vary depending
upon which resource was assigned." This is precisely what I want. Becuase
the duration of my 24hr/7day per week resource is 45 days (24 hour days), I
don't want to list this duration as 1080 hours (management won't understand
how long that is without a calculator...). If they saw 45 days and looked at
the resource they would immediatly know that these are 24 hour days. With
many other parallel tasks on-going during this 45 day period with normal 8
hour per day resources , I cannot change my entire project chart to 24 hour
days. So how can I clearly express these durations? Any help?

Thomas


"JulieS" wrote:
 

How do i lock the Baseline Start Column?

Posted: 24 Oct 2005 10:59 AM PDT

Go to the insert menu, select column and choose one of the available text
columns
select your baseline column (baseline finish for example) by clicking on the
column head.
Copy.
select your text column
paste.
Now the two are equivalent.
Select the text column and delete it (this just hides it from view)

Now if they change the baseline it will be different from the values in the
text column.
To check if they are equivalent, it is easiest to use a flag field.
Insert one of the flag fields. Right click the column header.
Select customize fields.
Click on the formula button
enter a formula like
iif([Baseline Finish]=[Text1],"Yes", "No")

Now that field will show no for any tasks where the baseline has been
changed.

Finally, create a filter. Set it for all tasks which have a Flag1 value of
"No".

An alternative is to use the compare projects add-in.

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Posted: 24 Oct 2005 09:01 AM PDT

John, thanks for the links, I'll make good use of them!

"John" wrote:
 

Filtering more than one resource assigned to the same task

Posted: 24 Oct 2005 08:40 AM PDT

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


WSH,
You're welcome. It's a good thing I'm in a different time zone. This way
you solved it yourself and all I had to do was hear about the result.

John