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- Customizing a legend
- Automatic completion of the Actual work field
- work/duration
- task predecessor setting dates
- maximum of 5 units produced at any one time
- fixing the columns in the project view
- Enterprise Global dimmed
- Custom Field Calc
- How to recover a corrupt MS Project 2000 file
- redundant or nested predecessor links.
- export timeline
- Shift Calendar
- Resource Group Balance Graph
| Posted: 01 Jun 2004 08:33 AM PDT Hi Chuck Look as http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm Faq 33. What the Gantt Chart legend shows HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Chuck Mason" <com> schreef in bericht news:167fe01c447ed$d656a3c0$gbl... |
| Automatic completion of the Actual work field Posted: 01 Jun 2004 02:20 AM PDT Hi, That is a function, but it is not automatic. You have to go to Tools, Tracking, Update Project, to find it. To do it you can also use a button on the tracking toolbar. But again, that is not automatic, at least not in Project Standard or Professional Are you using Project Server? Do you fill it in manually from sheets or is there a program doing that? I once wrote such a program for a customer and it indeed put all past work into Actual Work (but that was progrmamed by me in VBA, it is not an MSP function). HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:165c501c447e2$d2370a60$gbl... |
| Posted: 31 May 2004 12:41 PM PDT Hi, My advice is to call it a 4 hours duration task, thus assigning the resource at 100%. Project will propose a start date as soon as possible but you can set a deadline and show "Latest Finish" - the task then has to be done between Start and LKate Finish, and work is not split at all. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Mac" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... the 4 hours over a 5 day period which i do not want to happen. I want the resource to know they have 5 days to complete the task, therefore they can work on it for 4 hours on one day or 1 hour a day...etc... Is there a setting where MS does not divide the hours over the duration |
| task predecessor setting dates Posted: 31 May 2004 09:21 AM PDT Hi Mark, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup What you can do is to create a milestone FS between the two tasks. Now create a special calendar for working hours from, say, 0800 to 0801 only every work day. Now assign that as a task calendar to the milestone which can only be scheduled for that one minute per day, thus ensuring that the 8 hr task starts the next full day. If you're unsure of how to do any of this, please repost. 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 Mark Etheridge wrote: |
| maximum of 5 units produced at any one time Posted: 31 May 2004 08:47 AM PDT Hi Rod this is currently being tracked in excel - the main limitation there is that a change in one thing doesn't automatically result in a change in everything else and this, of course, is one of project's strengths. Also if the guy who is currently managing the excel spreadsheet is asked a question along the lines of, we've tendered for 5 pulleys and it looks like its going ahead when could they be delivered given a starting date of july 1 he's got no way of simulating / producing this information from his excel spreadsheet. i've proposed a solution along the lines of - each pulley is a separate project file with the processes required for its manufacture (including resources and predessors), additionally there is a tender process file and a post production process file. There is also a resource pool file and the resources for each part of the process are taken from the resource pool. I've created a resource called workshop with a maximum availability of 500%. when a new tender comes in a new project file is created for the order with the tender process as one phase, each pulley that the order is for as another phase and at the end the post production phase (these are copied and pasted in from the "template" files) - so an order with 1 pulley has three phases and order with 5 pulleys has seven (whether or not the pulley's are the same type or not). Links are created between the first phase and each of the pulleys and then end of each pulley and the post production phase and the file is saved under the tender number. This new tender file is then inserted into a master file along with the other tenders & orders-in-progress ... the file is then levelled and all is well :) when changes are made the project is re-levelled etc. i feel that this will, for a start, provide a better solution than they currently have - i am now looking at using VBA to automate the "setting up phase" where they can choose the type & number of pulleys in each new tender & project automatically inserts (copies & pastes) the information in with the tender & post process phase, saves the files & inserts it into the master - haven't got very far with this as i've not done any serious programming with project before and i've only spent about 1/2 hr today playing with vba - hopefully i will get some time over the next couple of days to do this. The main "outstanding" issue that i then see is that of the "ramping up" concept ... i'm wondering if again using VBA i can automate the master file that when the workshop resource reaches 300% that the working time for the workshop increases to the 10hrs from the 8hrs automatically until the resource useage drops below 300% ??? any comments / advice / warnings would be appreciated. Cheers JulieD "Rod Gill" <com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... can't step and their continual with one deal 1 factory point. |
| fixing the columns in the project view Posted: 31 May 2004 03:51 AM PDT If you are using project 2003, you can restrict this by not giving the "manage views" permission to the user whom you dont want to do this.I dont know if this option is available in other versions of project. |
| Posted: 29 May 2004 09:38 AM PDT Ahmed -- Refer to the Resolution section of the following link for the directions on how to set up your login account in Microsoft Project Professional: http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Project%20Server%20FAQs/pubnonenterprise.htm Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "Ahmed Abd El Moneim" <com> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... for i Global" |
| Posted: 28 May 2004 02:10 PM PDT Cota, I better understand what you are trying to do. However, I don't know of any way to reassign resources without being proactive. One way or another you will have to address each task whose profile needs to be changed. No simple formula in a custom field can do that. The only alternate approach I can see is to develop an algorithm that emulates the decision process for changing resource assignments. For example, resource 2 is a premiumn resource that is only needed to perform tasks that have certain parameters and resource 2 is only available if a quota of X number of units is met in a certain time frame. It can get pretty hairy but it is feasible. However, the only practical way to accomplish this is through VBA and that may turn out to be more effort than making the assignment adjustments manually. Not sure if this helps. John |
| How to recover a corrupt MS Project 2000 file Posted: 28 May 2004 11:46 AM PDT There is a knowledge base article with some help: 318438 PRJ: How to Troubleshoot Corrupted .MPP Project Files http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318438 |
| redundant or nested predecessor links. Posted: 28 May 2004 10:47 AM PDT Which fully supports my position (as shown in the second sentence of my answer). On Sat, 29 May 2004 21:00:38 -0400, Mark Durrenberger <com> wrote: |
| Posted: 28 May 2004 08:53 AM PDT Hi liquidgolf , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer. 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 Project MVP liquidgolf wrote: |
| Posted: 28 May 2004 08:26 AM PDT Hi Kay, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might also like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project lessons in the TechTrax ezine, particularly the bit on Shifts in Lesson 12 - Working Patterns at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate it 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 Kay wrote: |
| Posted: 27 May 2004 11:29 PM PDT Hi Conrad, Double-click in the graphical part to show Bar Styles. You can choose the representation of overallocated work and select availability to be shown. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Conrad Santiago" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... displaying the Work value on the bottom line of the chart. Is there a way to modify the Graph to add a second value line showing the Overallocation values or a third line showing the Availability values? bericht work group as a |
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