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What does "eday" stand for in MS Project 2003 Microsoft Project

What does "eday" stand for in MS Project 2003

Posted: 18 Nov 2005 06:16 PM PST

Note that you can enter your task durations in edays as well. This is useful
when you have tasks which do not obey working hours (things like waiting for
concrete to cure are typical examples)

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Linking Tasks in Project 98

Posted: 18 Nov 2005 12:31 PM PST

It should with the exception of using a formula to set the flags. You will
have to set them by hand or use some VBA.

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adding formula

Posted: 18 Nov 2005 11:57 AM PST

Hi

Square brackets are only required if there are spaces in the field name but
usually I do use them as standard with or without spaces ....


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"JackD" wrote:
 

Symbol for illustrating indented tasks was a + with a box around i

Posted: 18 Nov 2005 09:55 AM PST

Hi Robert,

We need to discover whether it is Project at fault, or whether it's your PC.
Does it occur with this project on other PCs? If you have no other PC, as
it sounds like corruption within Project, try re-installing Project.

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

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Tracking Tasks that can be Completed Out of Order

Posted: 18 Nov 2005 08:15 AM PST

You might remove the links and use the task priority setting in conjunction
with resource leveling to set the order they will likely be worked on.
Links should not be used to describe the order you *want* to work on tasks,
they should describe the order you MUST work on the tasks because of
something inherent in the process itself. When building a structure we link
"erect walls" as a predecessor to "install roof" not because we usually do
it that way but rather because the law of gravity says we cannot build the
roof in midair and later stuff the walls in underneath it <grin>. Linking
A->B says that A produces as its output something that is needed as an input
for B and as a result B cannot start until A is done. If that's not true,
remove the link and use something else to model the sequencing.
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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I thought the smallest units were Minutes?

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 01:32 PM PST

Duration would be deciminute, work milliminute :)

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How to make a backup of a master project

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 01:07 PM PST

Hi Tina,

Thanks for your reply. I do not quite understand what you mean when
saying you change the "high level label inside the master project"

Thanks

ODBC in VBA

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 12:59 PM PST

I didn't know there was a microsoft.public.project.developer's group.
I'll look there. Thanks for your help!

Loading a Project from Excel

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 12:37 PM PST

Thanks Jack. I checked the doentation and it seems relatively
straightforward. One question I can't find: Can we load multiple projects in
one pass (one project per line)? or is it just open an excel file that has
one line of data, create the project, close that projects, then open the next
line, create the project, close the project, etc.). With a thousand projects
to create, that would be a time consuming job.

Thanks.

"JackD" wrote:
 

Filtering for only cross-project links

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 12:15 PM PST

Hi Andrew,

Glad to know the formula worked and thanks for the feedback.

Without seeing your project file, it is only a guess, but I assume the
reason why you only need the first part of the formula in a master project
is that if a task is an external successor to one task, it is also an
external predecessor to another task in the project. Tasks actually entered
into the master are internal -- all others (from the subproject files) are
external.

Hope this helps.

Julie

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Viewer for documents created in Project

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 08:17 AM PST

Yes, There is some views. Some are free. See our doent :
http://www.ixila.com/Telecharger/Quel%20lecteur%20Microsoft%20Project%20choisir.pdf
Regards,
Xavier
Ixila

Set a start AND end date for a project?

Posted: 16 Nov 2005 08:39 PM PST

A project mathematically simply cannot have a fixed beginning date AND a
fixed ending date. It may, indeed usually DOES, have a date by which it
needs to end but that's not the same thing as the end date. That's the
TARGET for the end date. The project end date itself is that date on which
the last bit of work is done and the project deliverable is completed. That
event may occur before, on, or after the target end date but it occurs
whenever it occurs - Mother Nature and the laws of physics don't care
whether you're on time or late, only the bossand the client cares about that
<grin>. Project's job is to look at the physical work to be done and the
way you deploy your assets to do it and predict when the physical end is
likely to occur so you can create a workable plan that meets the boss's
objectives. When you schedule from the start date forward, you input the
date you will start work and the structure of the work itself, including
your best estimate of the duration of each component task. Project then
computes when the project would end IF you structured the work and assigned
the resources the way you have proposed. If it meets or is better than your
required target, great. If it's not, you don't just designate the date you
want, you must actually revise the organization of the work and/or the
assignment of the resources in order to materially change the computed
schedule so that it finishes where it should.

All of your 1200 tasks should lead up to a finish milestone. Every task in
the project should be linked to a successor except for that one milestone -
if there's no actual activity that is the successor to a given task, the
finish milestone is its successor. You set a deadline on the finish that is
the client's required date. After building your task list, linking them,
and assigning resources to them, you compare the computed scheduled finish
with the deadline for the finish and if necessary iteratively revise the
plan until it's computed to finish on or before the deadline.
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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To do list Report doesn't show Work per resource

Posted: 16 Nov 2005 05:04 PM PST

In article <com>,
Pete C <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Pete,
Well the Resource Usage view DOES have a single value of work by task
assignment for each resource. What is a little more difficult to obtain
in that view is the assignment (i.e. task) duration and % complete. That
information CAN be added to the view using spare assignment fields. You
might want to take a look at our MVP website:
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
FAQ 37 - Custom fields in tables

John
Project MVP