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Posted: 03 Jan 2006 10:21 PM PST

It is.
What is your point?


"kant" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How do I set a milestone at the end of a task duration?

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 02:20 PM PST

Format
Bar Styles
Look for the Milestone line
In teh From and To columns replace Start by Finish
HTH

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Creating standard report in Project

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 01:16 PM PST

Hi Summer,

Below are two potential approaches you might consider. Play around with
them and discover some of the filtering options so you can set them up the
way you are comfortable. -Bill

My preference for generating these 'reports' is to use the Excel output
feature. Here is an example:

1) Go to File->Save As...->Excel Workbook. Enter a filename, then click
next and choose "Selected Data".
2) Choose "New Map" (once this process is complete, you can choose 'Use
Existing Map')
a) Choose "tasks" (you can play around with resources and assignments
once you get the hang of this). Also, choose "Export includes Headers".
Click Next.
b) In the Destination Worksheet name, type "All Tasks Forecasted to
Begin".
c) For the filter, choose "Date Range".
d) Add some fields (i.e. Name, Start and Finish)
e) Click Next.
f) Click "Save Map" and type a name like "All Tasks To Begin After..."
g) Click "Save".
h) Click "Finish".
i) Find the Excel file you selected earlier and you will find the
fields output the way you want.

The next time you run the report, use "Selected Map" so you don't have to go
thru all the steps listed above again. Also, during this process, you can
modify the map and save over it (maybe you wish to add more fields, adjust
date filters, etc.)


Another example of this would be to use the out-of-box reports in Project
Server. Modify or create a view in Project Professional and create a filter
to display certain information. This example will step you through
modifying the "Gantt Chart" view to create your reports. I will use the
Sample #1 again.

1) From the View menu, first select "Gantt Chart". Then, also from the View
menu, choose Table->Entry.
2) Add or remove any columns until the data for your report is displayed.
3) Go to View->Reports.
a) You could select a report that already requests a date range, like
Current Activities...->Tasks Starting Soon.
b) You could also continue with the rest of these steps...
4) Choose "Custom"
5) Click "New..." and name the new report "All Tasks To Begin After...".
(next time, your report will show up so you don't need to create a new one
again).
6) Make sure the Table area is set to "Entry" and set the Filter to "Date
Range...". Click OK.
7) Now you can Preview or Run your report.

As you will notice, using out-of-box reports is not quite as flexible as
using Excel. This is because the reports sometimes are difficult to fit on
one page or you want to edit the data or make other modifications that are
difficult unless you are using Excel.

Hope this helps,

-Bill

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William Raymond
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MSProj : Resource Usage View : why is "Text3" column is <empty>

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 10:54 AM PST

Thank you Glen -- the answer is PERFECT.
My PM thanks you a million, too.
:-)


"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Project 2003 Resource loading

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 10:51 AM PST

Hi,

Do files in sharepoint have a "normal" address? If yes, you can link them to
a pool on any server they can "see" and that can "see" them.
HTH

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high level resource reports

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 10:50 AM PST

John
Thanks for the fast response. Let's see, any task might have all 4
categories or it might only have 3 or 2 categories. Also, the L (Labor)
category is the only resource group that is broken out by people that needs
to be summed. P, T, and C are already lumped together. To the other question,
Department 2 wants to see all the labor lumped together but since C, P, and T
are already one big "lump" per tasks it does not need to be broken down.
Currently, P, C, and T are resources that were created along with all the
employee names. So in my small example I wrote before our resource sheet
shows:
Mary
Sally
Chargebacks
Travel
Purchases

So I think MSP cannot see that the last 3 resource entries are not people
but are unique categories unto themselves. Does that help? Thank you so much
for your continued help!

"John" wrote:
 

Error Updating Embedded Data Objects

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 10:38 AM PST

I had intended it to be in the powerpoint area right above Project. Mouse
slipped. My appologies.
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Fred Garvin
San Antonio, TX


"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Financial Week Number Shift Start

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 07:42 AM PST

Thanks John

Shifting the production week won't work in this isnatance as I'm running a
pooled network with multiple projects, which will be ongoing across year
ends. So come September/October next year I'd be back in the same position.

Writing specialist VBA code is beyond my ability at this time and I can ill
afford the time.

So, exporting to Excel and converting the week numbers there was pretty much
where I had got to. Clumsy, but effective!

Tris

"John" wrote:
 

multiple standard working time

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 07:40 AM PST

Hi,

Concretely you can do it this way:

Through Tools, Change Working time, New, create the number of base calendars
you need to reflect standard times in each geography (you could call them
"Western Europe", "Middle East" etc.)
Then in the resource sheet view, for each reaource, in the "Calendar"
column, select the desired "standard".
HTH

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Updating a Project schedule through an import

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 07:24 AM PST

Hi,

On top of John's precious advice: if it is really about updating (like
adding figures to work field f.i.) you will definitely need VBA. IMHO that
is the route to take from the start.

HTH

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Simple Problem

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 04:48 AM PST

hi jan... thanks for your note. The calculation was set to manual... once i
changed to augomatic everything worked fine!. thanks for help! Lloyd

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

No WBS in Resource Usage view ??

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 01:39 AM PST

Easy.
There are THREE kinds of text fields, they are not linked to a VIEW but to
an OBJECT
Tasks have text fields, Resources have text fields and ASSIGNMENTS have text
fields.
Task usage shows Taks and assignments
Resource usage shows resources and assignments
(so task usage DOES NOT show resources and resource usage DOES NOT show
tasks!!!)
Assignment text fields thus are visible in both views.
Fill a text field (f.i. by coopying from a task field) in the task usage
view and it will be visible in Resource Usage and vce versa.
HTH


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Get Report to show project name in "Who Does What & When" report

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 01:02 PM PST

Hi John,
Thanks I will use that for now

Bert

"John" wrote:
 

Daily "to do" report

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 10:36 AM PST

Hi Doschmo,

Also, you might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly # 17 & 18 on Multiple Projects, 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 articles 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

Jan De Messemaeker wrote: 

Automatic date change after a value has exceeded a certain point

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 03:28 AM PST

Thanks.
SO it'll have to be with vba.
Laura

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

How do I prevent task numbering of additional rows of same task?

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 01:45 AM PST

Hi M-Squared,

Why not continue the description in the Name field and widen the row to show
it?

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Jan De Messemaeker wrote: 

Task needs simultaneous resources

Posted: 01 Jan 2006 11:39 PM PST

Hi,

You must have assigned the machine a a material resource instead of a work
resource.
HTH

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Project saved as database vs a XML file

Posted: 01 Jan 2006 07:40 AM PST

Sorry once again. It seems that I have found the answer on my own.

To associate a task with a custom cost through an Access database you need to
associate the TASK_UID in the MSP_TASKS table with the NUMBER_REF_UID in the
MSP_NUMBER_FIELDS.

thanks anyway

"glenn" wrote:
 

Cost Field vs. Customized Cost Fields

Posted: 31 Dec 2005 09:52 AM PST

Hello,

First off, thanks to you folks for responding to my sketchy question on how
to handle costs in Project.

I guess I forgot to mention that I am not using resources with any given pay
rate and instead I am just applying a cost for material and labor and
sub-totaling a cost for each task in my own custom field called 'Total Cost'.
It sounds like I will need to transfer these figures into Project's 'Cost'
field with a macro. In so doing, it would be my understanding that I would
be able to have Project's other cost related fields such as 'BCWP', 'BCWS',
'ACWP', 'EAC', 'VAC' and other earned value fields to receive their
respective values as a project's schedule moves forward.

Thanks for the link to the MVP site.

and Thanks for your help...

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Project workaround for Effort-Driven Resourcing Re-Calc Issue

Posted: 30 Dec 2005 01:50 PM PST

Hi extremetray ,

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 Multiple Resource Assignments, 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

extremetray wrote: 

Adminstrative Tasks

Posted: 30 Dec 2005 07:59 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Jeff Cecil" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

SJ Digriz,
You're welcome. Just for reference, at our company each program had
their own WBS that defined a structure for our Project files. An actual
charge number (as used by employees on their timecards) was the next
level below the WBS structure used for the program Project files. In
some cases a particular task in a project file might in fact be
represented by a specific charge number, but generally, the charge
numbers were too low a level for tracking in Project - that's what our
financial system did - and it was much better at it. In the case of
support/administrative effort from functional organizations, their
effort would show up in the actuals for the program but there was no
specific task in a program Project file that tracked their support. That
worked because their effort was generally minimal - after all, it was
just support. However any significant effort on the program, including
program management, program business personnel, etc. was represented by
tasks in a Project file. If the effort was not readily measurable, it
was shown and tracked as level-of-effort (LOE).

The above approach allowed us to keep Project files at a manageable
level yet had a full accounting trail for all program costs.

John
Project MVP 

Earned Value Analysis: 50/50 Technique

Posted: 30 Dec 2005 05:35 AM PST

I agree with Trevor.
And I agree with John. It can balance out, it you have enough
overlapping tasks. Let's take an extreme example of what can happen
though.

Let's say you have one long duration (3 mo.) task that starts 1 month
into the project. While AV is acruing each month, we see no EV acrual
on this task until month 3 (2 months after it started and the first
month after it passed 50% completion). Such a task would work better if
it's a 40/60 or 25/75. Other lower cost tasks will somewhat dilute this
effect. But it could easity obscure some other problem EVA would
normally illuminate. On a 6 mo project, that one month of inaccurate
data could very easily be crucial to overall project success. This is
why granularity is so important in EVA. To some extent, this problem
can be minimized by doing EVA on weekly or bi-weekly basis on short
projects like this. But the issue should be addressed to make sure
you're getting what you need from doing your Earned Value.

Regarding IIS FTP Server

Posted: 30 Dec 2005 04:05 AM PST

Hi Latha,

You could try microsoft.public.vstudio.general.
Good Luck and a Happy New Year:)

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Latha wrote: 

create a view like task usage

Posted: 29 Dec 2005 04:19 PM PST

In article <com>,
familyman <nospam> wrote:
 

Rob,
For your reference a dynamically consolidated master, (i.e. subprojects
linked to the master, which is the default), does not actually contain
the subproject tasks. The master simply contains a summary line
representing each subproject and a pointer to the actual independent
subproject file. That's why a simple export of the master will only
export data that is resident in the master itself.

There are a couple of ways around this limitation. One is to separately
export each subproject as you mentioned. Another is to use VBA to export
all the data (master and subproject) to another application (e.g. Excel,
Access, etc.). I use that method a lot. You could also use SQL directly
on the Project database, although I've never done that but for
reference, a description of the Project database structure can be found
on your hard drive - look for projdb.htm.

Yet another possibility is to create a static master. With a static
master, the subproject data IS inserted directly into the master and it
becomes one large independent file. However, a static master is a
snapshot in time because the subprojects are no longer linked and to
update, a whole new master needs to be created. External links between
files, if any, are not preserved in a static master unless a special
macro is used to convert them.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP 

Project Professional 2003 Authentication

Posted: 29 Dec 2005 01:56 PM PST

Hi S,

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


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