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Baseline Work not adding up Microsoft Project

Baseline Work not adding up Microsoft Project

Baseline Work not adding up

Posted: 19 Jan 2006 03:15 PM PST

Nick,

Do you get this problem even with new plans that you create?

Also, is it possible that on these plans, tasks and resources were
deleted from the resource sheet after baselining.

Sharat

Network Diagram views

Posted: 19 Jan 2006 01:21 PM PST

Hi Mike,
I created a copy of the 'Summary tasks' filter, changed it to 'Summary =
No', but the Summary task didn't disappear. I didn't try it in the Gantt,
only in the Network Diagram view.
I find the display of summary tasks in the Network Diagram view very poor.
Best would be a line around the subtasks, but to show a summary as just
another task is less than helpful, to my way of thinking.
Look forward to trying any more ideas.


"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Exporting Calendar View & linking Excel Data to project Table

Posted: 19 Jan 2006 07:36 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Hobbit62" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Jordan (the Hobbit),
I understand your concept about a product schedule and calendar. However
it seems you are trying to use Project to track everyday "work
maintenance" activities with Project and I think that's either overkill
or hedging on micromanagement. We all, walk the dog, read e-mail, go to
meetings, etc. and for very busy people it may be helpful to track those
activities with a appointment book, PDA, or other daily scheduling aid.
However trying to put those type of daily activities into a Project
schedule is in my opinion unwise and unnecessary.

Project is a scheduling/planning application best suited for developing
and tracking major defined (i.e. bounded) projects. When assigning
resources to work on tasks in a Project plan a project manager knows
that 100% utilization of those resources does NOT account for 100% of
their waking hours - and it shouldn't. The rule of thumb we used for
employee utilization was something like 80%. The 20% accounts for
vacation, sick days, and general inefficiency associated with being a
human being. If the feeling is that this 20% (or whatever) inefficiency
is a serious impact on the project plan, then I suggest the project plan
probably was developed with too much optimism.

To address your basic question, there may be some other methods for
capturing the Calendar view but I don't have any more suggestions.
Personally I've never had any use for the Calendar view. What I do
suggest though is that you consider using a more appropriate means of
tracking daily activities. Perhaps Outlook would be a good option.

Of course all of this is just my take on your issue. Maybe someone else
has a suggestion or two.

John
Project MVP 

How to insert text into Task Bar

Posted: 19 Jan 2006 06:12 AM PST

Thanks
"The value is not valid in this situation" this appeares with several tries
with different values. I just need to enter 80 x 20' DC in the middle of the
Bar.
Thanks
Kalevi
"davegb" <com> kirjoitti
viestissä:googlegroups.com...

Kalevi wrote: 

What error message?

If I choose "Tesxt1" from where 

You can add the Textx field to an existing table, or create a new table
with Textx in it. Enter your info there, and it will appear in the
Gantt Bar.
 

Master Project with only 'read' access

Posted: 19 Jan 2006 01:56 AM PST


Thank u very much John,
I was very happy to try the suggested solutions. Your help came in
time. Both the options are fantastic & working. Help in need ...

We can save the file as read only with write protection password, still
you can open sub-projects w/o password.

Thanks once again.


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Where does MS project stores setting which user set in mpp file

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 09:26 PM PST


John wrote: 

Just thought I'd mention that the settings that are doent/project
specific have a "Set as Default" button in that part of the box to make
them application wide settings.
Hope this helps in your world.

Tasks Not Shown in a View

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 07:48 PM PST

Yes! Now that I've been told about this "feature" think of it like this:
I'm in the kitchen and must turn on the kitchen lights before I go into the
dinning room. BECAUSE if the kitchen lights are off... then the dinning room
lights are off and can't be turned on until I return to the kitchen to turn
on the kitchen light. You see, The light switch is dissabled in the dinning
room. (The view does not have the summary tasks shown and thus the "show all
subtasks" button is dissabled.) After all those years of having my mother
tell me to turn off the lights before I leave the room, it's hard to
remember to turn on the lights in the kitchen or I won't be able to turn on
the lights in the dinning room once I get there. I think this is at least
an annoyance if not a bug.

"John" <com> wrote in message
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using up part-time resource's availability in one task?

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 01:52 PM PST

No problem. For the record, the levelling outcome would be the same
regardless of the task type. MS Project runs algorithms to determine which
tasks to delay based on overallocations. It may split a task, if you set
the option to allow it...but it won't change the units that are assigned (as
part of an attempt to optimize the schedule). If you set the levelling
option to check at the hour by hour level, you should receive an
informational error that it couldn't resolve the overallocation, but it
won't delay the task because of it, as this would just move the
overallocation and not resolve it.

Cheers!

John M.


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Choose a resource, then a mgr of the res from a central resoure po

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 11:57 AM PST

Hi Jziz,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

You might like to see FAQ Item: 37 - Custom Fields in Tables. 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
Project MVP

jzis wrote: 

put tasks in outlook without server

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 09:49 AM PST

Hi, Cheryl!
Go to Tools, Macro, Macros, then type in OutlookLink and click Create. The
VB Editor will come up, with the first and last lines already inserted for
you. Click Tools, References, and check Microsoft Outlook Object Library
(your version number will be in there). Once it is checked, click OK. Then
copy and paste the original macro code (without the Sub and End Sub lines in
between those lines in the VB Editor. Now save, and you're done. Just click
the Run button (looks like a right arrow) to run it. In the future you can
run it from Project by going to Tools, Macro, macros, selecting it from the
list, and click Run.
Write me directly if you have any problems or questions. I hope it works for
you.
Regards,
Rick Williams
net



"CherylDetrick" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Duplicate task names in Master Project

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 09:09 AM PST



"JP Long" wrote:
 

Assigning Resources to part of a task

Posted: 18 Jan 2006 05:30 AM PST

Thanks for your reply John.

Unfortunately it's not that uniform. Any resource may be required for any
length of time on any particular task. I think the only way is to manually
put the hrs in via the Work View for each resource.

Thanks again
--
Robin


"John M." wrote: