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- how do i create project that uses same sub-project many times sta.
- Status reports - Who all can access status reports?
- Status Reports: Link to speific project plan?
- Project time allocation calculated incorrectly
- Unique fields for tasks
- How can you print a Project plan document without MS Project?
- Deadline
- 'Milestone Complete' in Tracking Gannt
- Import Production Schedule from Excel File!
- Project Printing Problem
- Remaining work for resources
- Variation of resources in one task over different time
- Can Project be configured to reflect start & end time
- Variation Duration
- Project guide
| how do i create project that uses same sub-project many times sta. Posted: 12 Oct 2004 10:01 PM PDT Hi ProjectNewUser, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) I would have thought you'd do better having a project for each customer, as then you can archive the finished projects without cluttering your current ones. I suggest you create a pool file of the resources, one file for each customer and in each project share the resources with the pool. Opening the pool will then simpfly the creation of a master project which will overlook all of them. Best to create a template file for new customers and run the adjust_dates macro to reset the start date for each one. You have a lot of learning to do! I have just written an article on consolidation of projects for the next issue in a week or so. It is will be in the TechTrax ezine, 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 JulieD wrote: |
| Status reports - Who all can access status reports? Posted: 12 Oct 2004 03:31 PM PDT What if they are defined in PWA? Can the status reports be accessed by all members of the project team (such as SharePoint)? "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Status Reports: Link to speific project plan? Posted: 12 Oct 2004 03:15 PM PDT I have a PM who's Supervisor and stake holders want regular status updates regarding a project plan. He is utilizing the status update feature within PWA and is receiving his updates from team members however he would like to avoid duplicate work by allowing that information to be available to these folks without having to create a separate document each time (which seems logical). What are his options? "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Project time allocation calculated incorrectly Posted: 12 Oct 2004 12:47 PM PDT Hi Inbar not sure about this ... if you change the max units of Mary in the Resource sheet to 50% and assign her to a task and don't specify units project will only assign her at 50% ... meaning that on a task with 16 hours duration she will be assigned 8 hours of work. Work is similarly calculated if you enter Mary into the resource sheet at 100% and assign her to a task at units = 50% ... she will be assigned 8 hours of work for a 16hr duration task. However, if you enter her as max units of 100% but edit her calendar so she is only "there" 4 hours per day and assign her to a task (don't enter units) project will assign her the "full" amount of work (16hrs), will leave the duration column alone but change the number of days coloured in on the Gantt chart to double. So going back to the original question - put Mary in at 50% in the resource sheet assign her to the 40hr duration task and project will assign only 20hrs work .... over the 40hrs duration. - to see this display the work column alongside the duration column and also have a look at Mary in the Resource usage or task usage views. Cheers JulieD "Inbar" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 12 Oct 2004 12:08 PM PDT Hi Nick, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, 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 Nick Ville wrote: |
| How can you print a Project plan document without MS Project? Posted: 12 Oct 2004 05:53 AM PDT Hi Cathy, 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 CathyV22 wrote: |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2004 09:17 PM PDT Consider the simplest possible project - 1 single task. Your boss has given you a deadline of this coming Friday to build 100 widgets. The most you can build is 10 a day. How should Project schedule this task? What it does is schedule it for 10 days, a week beyond the deadline, and alerts you that unless you get some help, you're going to be in trouble with the boss. But there's no way it can schedule the task to meet the deadline as input because it's up to you as PM to figure out what strategy will make 20 widgets a day instead of only 10. Unless you do, meeting the deadline means you'll only make half the required number of widgets and a project is not complete with only half the entire deliverable requirement satisfied. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Ashley McKown" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| 'Milestone Complete' in Tracking Gannt Posted: 11 Oct 2004 10:55 AM PDT Hi Anthony, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Have you created the Bar Style from the Tracking Gantt view as well? 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 Anthony wrote: |
| Import Production Schedule from Excel File! Posted: 11 Oct 2004 09:35 AM PDT An alternative is to import with the job# as the task name, machine# into a spare text field, then use the grouping feature to "group by" and choose the text field you have used for machine#. The machine # will show as a heading - but it is not an actual summary task. You won't have to modify the spreadsheet to do this. As for the other fields, start should map to start, duration to duration (be sure to include the appropriate units (ie: 3d or 3 days for the duration, not just 3), job description can go into a text field or you could use it as the name and put the job# in a text field. Once you do this you can also group by the job description if you like so you can see all the common jobs and the machines they are running on. -Jack "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... the |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2004 08:51 AM PDT HI Martin, No - as it says "Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article." If MS can't fix it, I certainly can't :( Mike Glen Project MVP Martin wrote: |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2004 08:39 AM PDT Hello scott, In the Resource Usage view, display the Actual Work field besides the (Scheduled) Work If a cell of Work as not any value in the Actual Work cell in front of it, that means it's Remaining work... Hope this helps, Gérard Ducouret "Scott A" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:com... work |
| Variation of resources in one task over different time Posted: 11 Oct 2004 07:57 AM PDT Hi Jan personally i'ld be tempted to split up the task - especially when the "dryers" get involved - however, you can do what you're after by editing the hours in the task usage view. Add the task in at 5wks duration. Assign the resources (1 unit of both the painter & dryer). Change the task type to fixed duration and untick effort driven. Switch into task usage view and edit the actual hours for each of the resources, for example if i have an 8hr day then for the first week i would edit each day to show 16hrs for the painters & 0hrs for the dryers. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Jan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:39e501c4afa2$96b518b0$gbl... |
| Can Project be configured to reflect start & end time Posted: 11 Oct 2004 07:29 AM PDT Gerard's answer is how to accomplish it, but with respect to the 24 hour calendar I suggest you think it thru to make sure it really should apply. The 24 hour calendar says that work on the tasks proceeds 24/7. It also implies that once a task begins it doesn't "stand down" until it's completed - the resources go 24/7 and don't sleep, eat, nap, see their families, or do anything but work for how ever long it takes to finish the task. Machines may work like that but people don't. If you have a painter assigned to pain a room and it's going to take him 6 days to do it, he'll probably go home in the evenings as it progresses. The 24 hour calendar suggests that he'll work 48 hours solid until the painting is done, not very likely. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Marc" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2004 07:21 AM PDT You can't have a 10-day task that is 50% done with 6 days actual duration. % Complete refers to duration, not physical complete or work. When you have done the work scheduled for the first 6 days of a task scheduled for 10 days, you're 60% done. You may be 90% physical complete or have only done 30% of the total work scheduled, but your % Complete is 60% by definition. The only way it can be 50% after 6 days of working on it is if you revise the duration by setting Remaining Duration to 6 days, thus revising the total duration to 12 days. The Duration Variance is stored in a field of that same name. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "zipzip" <com.br> wrote in message news:%23kDaNT$phx.gbl... |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2004 07:53 AM PDT Hi Lieve, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Also try a right click on a toolbar and select Project Guide, then click the left hand tool to show the Project Guide. 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 Gary L. Chefetz (MVP) wrote: |
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