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- How can I open an old MS Project file, while having only Ms Project 2000?
- random line on chart
- OT: Advice managing R&D
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- Timescaled Data
- entered field vs. calculated field
- Constraints
- Save Task Usage Report to Excel
- Why does Project 2000 show "0" when I calculate SPI
- Turning on the Save Offline menu option
- How to find differences between two schedules
- Display time differently
- difference between xml and mpp files?
Posted: 14 May 2004 10:23 PM PDT Hello Maxime, You can declare your classrooms and your simulators as resources in the Resource Sheet. On a task named "Lesson 3" for example, you can assign the Classroom 2 MS Project will tell you is the Classroom 2 is available during this period of time. Gérard Ducouret "Maxime M." <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:d6c001c43a3c$bc7a31b0$gbl... |
Resource leveling schedules task in Dec 2049! Posted: 14 May 2004 07:51 PM PDT Hello JW, Haven't you a resource the availability of which is 0 after a specific date ? Check in the Resource Information dialog box, General tab... Tell us if it works Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP] Pragmasoft ® - Paris "JW" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:126a01c43a27$74f8e260$gbl... |
Posted: 14 May 2004 02:01 PM PDT Hello Deluth, A little bit confusing... If the task actually should take longer... you are not ahead of schedule, but your are late... Anyway, as Dale said, don't use the % Complete. In the Update Tasks dialog box (Tools / Tracking / Update tasks...) enter the Actual Start, the Actual Duration, the Remaining Duration. That's all. Tell us if it works Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP] PragmaSoft ® - Paris "Deluth" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:com... finish, the Finish date changed to the actual finish date and the duration shortened. This doesn't give me a very good view into the project. It looks like the duration is shorter, but the task actually should take longer. How do I rectify the Project so that it would show that my resource was ahead of schedule? |
How can I open an old MS Project file, while having only Ms Project 2000? Posted: 14 May 2004 06:56 AM PDT Me, If the FAQ referenced by Julie doesn't help, (i.e. the "old" Project file is version 4.x and you don't have access to Project 98), I will be happy to translate the file for you. Let me know via e-mail. John |
Posted: 14 May 2004 06:47 AM PDT Hi Aimee: The line may also be the vertical line showing the current date in the Gantt chart. You may hide the display of the current date line. Go to Format --> Gridlines in the menu. Find the Current Date in the Lines to change list. Set the type to the top item in the list ( the blank option). Click OK and the line will be gone. Hope this helps. Julie be |
Posted: 14 May 2004 06:13 AM PDT Yours is an example of where the PERT approach can be of value. The CPM method, which is the basic MSP strategy, are deterministic and is based on well defined tasks with durations that can be estimated reasonably well. PERT, on the other hand, is probablistic, with the schedule based on a weighted average duration. You may not have done this exact task before but other projects have had similar tasks. You can look at the historical data and come up with an average and sdev of the actual duration for similar tasks in similar projects. Plug the average and +/- 3sd values into MSPs PERT calculator to come with a best case, worst case, and most likely set of durations, essentially 3 project plans instead of just one. Or take the average of previous projects and then consult with the subject matter experts doing the work to come up with a best case and worst case estimate for the tasks in this one and apply the PERT formula (D(b)+4*D(a)+D(w)) / 6 to come with the duration estimate for the task in this project. (That formula is what the built-in PERT tool uses in MSP). -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Pat" <com> wrote in message news:e8yn$phx.gbl... might to references |
Posted: 13 May 2004 11:04 AM PDT Hi, Two major shortcomings: 1) mpx doesn't handle time scaled data. So, if you have 10h in week1, 5h in week2 and 15h in week 3, then the mpx format exports 10h per week for 3 weeks. It also doesn't export any fields added to Project from 2000 onwards. 2) mpx is no longer supported. The replacement is xml. Project 2002 onwards can export and import xml files. Xml files support all fields up to and including 2003. -- For VBA posts, please use the public.project.developer group. For any version of Project use public.project For any version of Project Server use public. project.server Rod Gill Project MVP For Microsoft Project companion projects, best practices and Project VBA development services visit www.projectlearning.com/ "MB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:cbc301c43914$b2d09600$gbl... |
Posted: 13 May 2004 09:51 AM PDT Hi, Insert, Recurring Task HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Austin" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:cb1d01c4390a$81665500$gbl... |
Posted: 13 May 2004 09:14 AM PDT Thanks Cheryl. I forgot it wasn't in the earlier releases - early senility apparently ;) Julie Proj. for. isn't. timescaled |
entered field vs. calculated field Posted: 13 May 2004 08:06 AM PDT Remember the basic purpose of MS Project is not to accept as its input a schedule you have come up with elsewhere but rather taking as input what needs to be accomplished and the assets you have to do it with, it then calculates and gives you the optimal schedule you can have. You don't tell it when tasks *will* take place, rather it tells you when tasks *can* take place and schedules them so as to give you a completed project in the shortest possible time. IMHO, a "Start No Earlier Than" constraint is appropriately used when some condition external to the project makes it impossible for the task to start as early as Project would otherwise schedule it. The example I use in classes is filming a movie and we need to shoot at a certain location. We're ready to shoot that scene in mid-June but the owners of the location have said that under no circumstances can we come on the property to begin setup until after the July 4th holidays. Hence we'd use a SNET constaint to move the task out to the first date we could work on it. If you do need a planned delay - waiting for parts delivery after an order is placed or waiting for a contract to be approved, for example - you still don't designate the start date for successor task - instead you use a lag time inserted in the link to create the necessary delay between the two tasks. That way if the predecessor is pushed back, the successor is pushed back a like amount and the required delay between them is preserved. Or perhaps the resource that will work on the task isn't available until after a certain date. Even then, you don't directly designate the date the task will be scheduled on. Instead you input the information about when the resources are available and Project will schedule tasks accordingly when you assign the resources to them, only placing them on dates where the resources required will be there to work on them. "april" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... task does not need to immediately start even though the dependency requires that it has to at least wait for the previous task to finish before it can start. The "start no earlier than" constraint is not necessarily the only sceneario here but it could be one of the reasons that a planned delay is set in the schedule. Does that mean I cannot properly import and merge with existing project file when dates are entered in schedule on purpose? constraint can be removed once the late activity has started with actual start date and % of completion. |
Posted: 13 May 2004 07:09 AM PDT Good catch Jan! Thanks very much, Julie sthe optieon othert han the date" and no new bericht the create is Task to "Start |
Save Task Usage Report to Excel Posted: 13 May 2004 05:36 AM PDT HI Mani, Have you tried th export timescaled data to excel using the Analysis toolbar? View either the Task or Resource Usage view and then try it. Hope this helps. Julie Excel. Good examples are the Task Usage or Resource Usage reports. |
Why does Project 2000 show "0" when I calculate SPI Posted: 13 May 2004 12:38 AM PDT There are a number of problems with your approach as you've outlined it. First and foremost you said you save your baseline and then add your tasks. This is completely backwards. The baseline is a collection of data about the tasks and resources and so if you do it in that order there is no data yet present to save in the baseline. The baseline is a fixed "snapshot" of the project data at the moment you've saved the baseline and does NOT automatically update as the project changes. You need to set up the entire project, enter all the tasks and sequence them, define your resources and their rates and assign them to their tasks (You didn't mention that you'd done anything with resources but without them there is nothing for Earned Value and SPI to measure since it uses resource costs as the tracking metric), level any overallocations, and finalize the schedule, THEN save (or re-save) your baseline. The baseline should represent the completed project plan as you intend to work it, saved as the very last thing done after getting management approval and sign-off but before beginning actual work. Then as work proceeds you update the project posting in actual performance. Now to earned value - remember BCWS is the Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled, BCWP is Budgeted Cost of Work Performed, *AS OF a specific Status Date* (you left out whether you had set the status date or not). That's why you need to have both assigned resources and entered actual progress to date. Without resources there is no work to be scheduled and without actuals there is no record that work has been performed. So you decide what date you want to see earned value reported current to and set that date as the status date in the Project Information menu. Then in the View Menu, select Table, More Tables, and from the list of available table displayed select one of the Earned Value tables. You don't need to create a custom field to display SPI, it's already there as a standard field and is already included in the EV tables supplied out-of-the-box or available for inclusion in a custom table. Hope this helps ... -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Stevie" <com> wrote in message news:google.com... |
Turning on the Save Offline menu option Posted: 12 May 2004 03:31 PM PDT Thanks Dale. This works well now. "Dale Howard [MVP]" <dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... is project somehow this |
How to find differences between two schedules Posted: 12 May 2004 02:21 PM PDT Deluth, Here is the download site for the Project Compare COM add-in. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=A1D023A3-F612-4 DA2-ACB8-FDA8F850D645&freetext=compare&DisplayLang=en John |
Posted: 12 May 2004 02:11 PM PDT Hi, Use the list separator (depending on the settings, a comma or a ;) -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "pmack" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... option? I've tried using the Ctrl key but it doesn't work. I am trying to choose Milestone and finished... |
difference between xml and mpp files? Posted: 12 May 2004 12:41 PM PDT April -- You need to set the Start date of the project by clicking Project - Project Information and selecting the Start Date. Setting a Start date on the first task in the project is not the same thing, and is probably the source of your problems. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "april" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... date for the first sub-task A.1, so when viewing project information, the project start date is autofilled with the same date. |
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