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Unable to print project 2003 Microsoft Project

Unable to print project 2003

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 09:55 AM PST

This suggestion was more helpful than I initially thought. I made a direct
connection to the printer via IP port (never work with the network admin
right?!), and printed successfully. Thanks for your time. JDee.

Josh


"jdee" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Start/Finish dates adjust automatically when I enter WORK

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 08:26 AM PST

I figured it out. I had to change Task Type to FIXED DURATION

"jdee" wrote:
 

Project Install

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 06:38 AM PST

Hi Kevin,

Sorry the fix didn't work. I'm afraid I am out of other ideas ;-(

Perhaps someone else will weigh in.

Julie

"Kevin" <com> wrote in message
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"Start no earlier than" always the same as "Start date"

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 03:29 AM PST

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060208.html


<fr> wrote in message news:googlegroups.com... 

multiple-value field for a project

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 01:35 AM PST

Elena --

Project Server does not support the use of multi-value Project fields or
outline codes. It does offer multi-value Resource outline codes in
enterprise Resource outline code 20-29. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Elena Osipova" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How can I view project files if i dont have project installed

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 01:27 AM PST

Hi andyjordan,

Yes, the MVP.ORG site is very useful. FAQ #16 on the site gives some
options for either using the copy picture button to create a picture that you
can paste into Word or PowerPoint. You may also as noted in the FAQ save a
project as a web page. The FAQ also gives a link to exporting data to Excel
as well as mentioning saving files as PDF.

Do any of those options work for you?

Thanks for the feedback and let us know how you get along.

Julie

"andyjordan" wrote:
 

How do you set concurrent tasks within a project in MS Project ?

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 05:05 PM PST

It's hard to know where to start.
First, are you using the predecessor links and not typing in dates?

Trevor

"Joshua J" <Joshua microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Project 2002 to 2003 Error

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 04:47 PM PST

Are you sure? I didn't think older versions of Project could save to new
versions especially as I though 2003 re-arranged some tables.

If you create a new DSN for a new database, can Project 2003 create the
tables again and allow you to read and write to it OK?

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more


"Steve Crago (Hotmail)" <com> wrote in message
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Duration formula for Project Start to task Finish date

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 12:16 PM PST

Perfect:-)
Thanks.

Fixed unit task - duration doesn't recalculate

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 12:07 PM PST

It was the Microsoft Business Solution - Solomon blocking it somehow.
Now when I remove the integration, duration changes just like normal ..
weird.

Thanks for your help.
Babar

Web Access - "Create New Task' error?

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 12:06 PM PST

No problem Y Lee:) Good luck!

Mike Glen
Project MVP

Y Lee wrote: 

Best Practice Hours per Day?

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 11:50 AM PST


Steve House [Project MVP] wrote: 

I agree with everything you say, Steve. Many years ago (more than 20),
when I started using scheduling software, I learned about productivity
and started factoring that in. But after a while, I reached the same
conclusions you described, and stopped doing it. I just included it in
the duration estimate. I do it for an entirely different reason now,
and I'm not sure I can explain it well.
It has for years mystified me that production systems are always
designed around the realities of downtime and the real world limits of
mechanical/electrical/hydraulic systems. When you build a copper
concentrator, if you want to process 100,000 T of ore a day, you build
a system with a peak capacity (everything available working) of say,
110,000 T. We know things break, even in the best designed systems.
There will be downtime. So just design for it. Strangely, in service
systems, there is rarely any attention payed to this same fact, that
people don't perform 100% all the time, and that, even if they did,
unpredictable factors occur that no one could foresee. To schedule the
overall system (of people, in this case) to be operating at 100% is
just as naive as to schedule the copper concentrator at 100%. So what
I'm applying in this situation is not the individual's inefficiency,
but the system's inefficiency. The two are different. One could argue
that they both should be accounted for in the original estimate of
time, just as the individual's is. But it doesn't work out the same,
and I'm not sure why. I'd be happy is someone else jumped in and
rescued me on this one. I do know that I get better results this way,
so it's an empirical thing. I'm not a university professor, like
Goldratt, who needs everything to have a theoretical explanation to
implement a technique. If I find it works for my clients, I go with it,
and try and figure out why it works later.
So now I'm trying to figure out why the system inefficiency needs to be
accounted for this way and the individual inefficiency is in the
duration estimate. Anyone have any ideas?
 

Using the Project Server Cleaner Tool on Project Server 2002

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 11:28 AM PST

You're welcome, Ilka :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Ilka wrote: 

MSProject: customize field to different time zone?

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 11:21 AM PST

Tried to make the summary work with no success. I'll just have to settle on
being the greatest. Glad I could help & good luck with your project.

"Betsy Hada" wrote:
 

How to stop Baseline date changing to match Actual date entry?

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 10:11 AM PST

Hover your mouse over the column heading: I suspect you have a column named
Baseline Finish but in reality it's a different column altogether and not
the real Baseline Finish column

What are the names of the columns you want to stop changing dates for? You
must hover your mouse over their column titles to see the real column name.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more


"LarryH" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Tasks Splitting on their own?

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 09:47 AM PST

Hi Rick,

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


RickPMO wrote: 

Simultaneous access to a project in the Enterprise (SQL) version

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 09:31 AM PST

I think you would miss the multi resource reporting by single indiviual the most.
I only have a vague concept of a chemical plant "turnaround" but I can imagine
I'd want to capture the "at hand" daily best estimates of those who have routinely
been at the dance. Other packages offer the ability to multiproject/reschedule, but
many still need exclsive use of the data or Objects when doing the calculations.


There are two work arounds though,
1.) create the resource accounts under Project Server authentication (NOT windows domain) and have your reporting individual
login/logout multiple times.
(This is actually cheaper too because PWA CALS are per user (Volume licence agreement definition of a user) not per resource or
resource account.)
2.) use resource management projects that have NO logical task linking, only order (sequence tasks) along runs of singular unique
resources.

to expand on number 2.)
The idea is to build Control Plans with no resources only resource reporting directives (codes etc to use as filters to get the
tasks to the right people).
The resource managers then utilize their Projects as control panels only for the resources they are responsible for.

Control Plan A
-Task1
|--Task2
|---Task3
|
| Control Plan B
| -Task1
| --Task2
| ---Task3
|
|Resource Control Panel Project
|-Control Plan S Task100 resource JOE
|--Control Plan T Task5 resource JOE
|---Control Plan A Task2 resource JOE

Control Plan A/Task2
is constrained by an interproject link to
Resource Control Panel Project/Control Plan T Task2

"Control Plan A/Task2" can't start until JOE finishes "Resource Control Panel Project/Control Plan A Task 2"

The constraints on Control Plan A's tasks (external links) turn out to be the resources that are most loaded and causing the most
delay
Once you get a few control points in a few control plans it becomes pretty obvious where to spend your energies to make gains by
identifying
the present and future bottlenecks.

The Resource Control Panel Projects are also a way to collect data in non overwhelming batches from
large resource sets that report frequently.

Really it's just a smoke and mirrors trick to abstract the reporting sets to a size that has some value
when dealing with finite resources and impart simple discipline to the whole system.
It makes very frequent distributed status updates manageable.
It also keeps hero's in check because the impact of confiscating resources
even for brief time spans can be seen before a weeks worth of damage is done
even without a sophisticated optimization. (More like the farmer is out in the back forty. If you
want to tell him to go do something else then get on your hourse ride out there and tell him yourself.
That is a great dose of common sense and flow maintainer when it comes to multi-project contentions.)

A control point showing a dramatic delay in the critical path is an opportunity for gains,
if it had remained hidden, confusing, blurred or most commonly; lied about. It costs money.


"Patrick" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... 

MS Project New Installation

Posted: 08 Mar 2006 12:44 PM PST

Thanks, Rick...
Trying to put a rough budget together for an MSProject Pilot program.
I've configured servers & set up Web Access, but the server was up &
running. The guy before me couldn't get it to work. I got it to work, but the
developers wouldn't use it. No AD or outlook...what a fiasco.
So it's a couple of days for the installation, a month to configure access
rights, groups, & reports.
Ball park on software & hardware...basic stuff. $5,000, $10,000?
ciao

"Rick Roszko" wrote: