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- project 2002: timescale label setting does not persist when zooming
- Assignments, Usage and Custom Formula Fields
- Can I indicate a crucial end date across a range of concurrent pr.
- Assigning Single Resource for Multiple Tasks
- How do I find out the names of the entire icons within each corre.
- Overallocation when assigning a resource to multiple task
- Resources less than calendar hours but still overallocated.
- Varying % of Resource
- problem assigning resources
- Customize toolbars with special items
- how do I plot progress on a graph
- Custom Number Formatting
- Is there a way to protect single cells or a column?
- Blocking field for usage
- Separate total personnel and material cost?
- Week #'s in calendar
| project 2002: timescale label setting does not persist when zooming Posted: 20 Oct 2004 02:20 AM PDT Hi Alex, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) It's always been thus. A work around it to create a series of views set as you want them and then just change the view. Better still, do it by recording macros and put them on a tool button. You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #16 - Macros , at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate the article 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 alex wrote: |
| Assignments, Usage and Custom Formula Fields Posted: 19 Oct 2004 09:49 PM PDT Hi Mike, Sound good, but how do you do that? When I try to customize a field I am asked whether it is a task or a resource field, and the assignments fields in the Usage views do not react. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> schreef in bericht news:phx.gbl... this |
| Can I indicate a crucial end date across a range of concurrent pr. Posted: 19 Oct 2004 05:13 PM PDT Further to Mike's suggestion: I have attempted that previously....but the problem is that you are quite limited on the length of a single line (using P2000), thus in order to get the line all the way down the timescale, you needed to join a number of lines....which turned out to be a right pain! When initially drawing the line, on-screen, it seemed to allow you to draw to any desired length. The single-length limitation only became apparent when you wanted to print the Gantt Chart. James.G "Mike Glen" wrote: |
| Assigning Single Resource for Multiple Tasks Posted: 19 Oct 2004 01:11 PM PDT Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply. First when I posted the same question with the subject "over allocation when assigning a resource to multiple tasks" it gave me an error saying it was not posted. So I reposted the question with different heading. Sorry for posting same question twice. I really appreciate your time. When I did the leveling in Project 2000 I could not achieve what I wanted. But when I tried in Project 2003 it worked. Thanks once again for your help. |
| How do I find out the names of the entire icons within each corre. Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:23 PM PDT Right click in the toolbar area or chose the View Toolbars menu. At the bottom of the list of toolbars select Customize. On it's Options tab make sure the checkbox "show screentips in toolbars" is turned on. Then just hover your mouse on a toolbar icon and its name will pop up. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "lrivetz" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Overallocation when assigning a resource to multiple task Posted: 19 Oct 2004 09:51 AM PDT Hi, That means you gave some input invalidating it; it works pefectly (and the same way as in 2003) in 2000. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "KT" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... have for (Project same want the of the |
| Resources less than calendar hours but still overallocated. Posted: 19 Oct 2004 08:43 AM PDT Hello Chris, I tried again and everything works well for me. Could you send me an excerpt of your project with the 2 tasks ? Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP] "Chris H" <Chris microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:com... have for with If calendar. |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2004 03:33 AM PDT Would it be naïve to suggest that a task be broken down into subtasks based on the type of work required? For example, if resource A is needed at 50% for 1 week, 25% for 2 weeks and 50% for 1 week during a 4 week project, I would analyse this as three subtasks,each of which has a deliverable that triggers the different work levels by resource A. Ken On 10/19/04 6:59 AM, in article phx.gbl, "JulieD" <net.au> wrote: |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:52 AM PDT Sorry, Project's leveling just doesn't work that way. It never redistributes work between the resources in a task nor does its leveling behaviour care whether the resources have equal or unequal amounts of work in the task. When you assign 3 resources and level, Project will treat it in one of two ways. Either the resources work independently of each other so you turn on the "leveling can adjust assignments ..." and Project will adjust the work of the one resource independently of the other, slipping his work while keeping the others as they were. Duration will then be from when the earliest starting resource starts work until the latest finishing resource wraps up his bit. Or the resources have to work together as a team - in that case, you turn off the check box for "leveling can adjust assignments ..." and if any single resource has to be slipped to resolve an overallocation, all of them are slipped together by the required amount. These two cases should take care of 90% of the situations. For the rest, such as you're describing, you'll need to go into the task usage view and manually redistribute the work between the resources at the end of the task. After leveling you'll see R1 with work hours extending beyond where R2 & R3 are shown finished. See how many days R1 continues on his own after the other two leave, take 2/3 of the excess off of R1 and give half of that to R2 and the other half to R3 right after the last day they're currently scheduled. That way R2 & R3 will be extended equally and R1 will be been shortened by the same amount to the point their schedules come together and all three end at the same time. Your total work will still be 600 but it will no longer be distributed evenly, R2 and R3 doing more and R1 doing less. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Andrea Racca" <it> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... |
| Customize toolbars with special items Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:23 AM PDT Hi Erkki, We need to discover whether your project is at fault, whether it is Project at fault, or whether it's your PC. Does the symptom occur with other projects on this PC? Does it occur with this project on other PCs? Does it occur with other projects on other PCs? Mike Glen MS Project MVP Erkki wrote: |
| how do I plot progress on a graph Posted: 19 Oct 2004 12:15 AM PDT Hi JulieD Thanks very much that worked a treat "JulieD" wrote: |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2004 08:07 AM PDT Thanks - I didn't think so, but thought I'd ask anyway. I've already used up the custom cost fields, so they were not available. I was trying to produce some custom reports, and wanted to display some total values for certain columns within a filtered set of tasks, but since text values do not roll up, I am forced to do the calculations in a custom number field, then display the number in a custom text field formatted correctly. "John" wrote: |
| Is there a way to protect single cells or a column? Posted: 18 Oct 2004 07:25 AM PDT If you're talking about Excel, select the cells where you wish to ALLOW changes, select Format Cells in the menu, select the Protection tab, and clear the checkbox for the "locked" property. Now in the Tools menu, select Protection, Protect sheet, and turn on protection for the whole worksheet. Changes will be disallowed for all cells except those where you have explicitly cleared the locked property so as to allow changes to them. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "John Patterson" <John microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2004 03:19 AM PDT Unfortunately, Project happily allows you to break many "rules" and there's no way to enforce them. That's one of the reasons I try to focus on principles of PM rather than software skills in my MS Project training courses. There's a huge difference in orientation between a class on "Introduction to MS Project" and one on "Introduction to Project Management Using MS Project." -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Riko Wichmann" <desy.de> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... |
| Separate total personnel and material cost? Posted: 18 Oct 2004 02:47 AM PDT Adrian, I see a couple of choices. Labor cost is pretty straightforward, Work hours X Pay Rate and it is calculated in the Cost field. Material cost can often be simply listed as a single sum (assuming it is not time related). The best way to enter this value is in the Fixed Cost field. It can be accrued at the beginning, end or prorated over the Task Duration. If you need to see Labor cost separately, simply create a custom cost field with the labor formula (you will need to either manually enter the Pay Rate in a separate custom field or use a macro to populate a field with the Pay Rate since it is a Resource field and not available directly in Task views). The Fixed Cost field will show non-time related material cost and the normal Cost field will show the total cost for both labor and non-labor. Set up a view table with all three field side by side and you will have a complete breakout. If you do have time related material (e.g. fuel cost), I suggest you create a separate sister task to the labor. They can be linked with a Start-to-start relationship and given the same Duration (or you could even create a hammock task in case the Duration changes with labor assignments). Hope this helps. John |
| Posted: 15 Oct 2004 02:04 PM PDT I'm unaware of any way to adjust that. Different organizations define their fiscal week 1 differently. For some it's the week containing Jan 1, for others it's the first full week in the year, for other's it's the week containing Jan 1 unless that week contains less than 4 days in the new year and then it becomes the following week, and there are probably other schemes as well. As far as I know, with Project it's the first full week in the fiscal year and there's no other options available. In defense of that, since Project's basic job is to come up with a task schedule to be worked by the resources and an estimated budget for the same it's not usually that crucial an issue. Most people ( ie, your resources) use the normal civil calendar in organizing their daily lives (even if their accounting department uses the fiscal calendar). Since it's not an accounting application anyway, does it really matter if the cost estimate of a resource doing a task of December 29th gets charged against fiscal 2004 or fiscal 2005 in the project's budget estimates? When the work is done and the actual timecards, invoices, checks, etc are massaged by the actual accounting programs you use for general ledger, etc, they're going to get apportioned to the right bucket anyway. Project's numbers, even actuals, are really only estimates to a close approximation at best. In other words, don't worry about it, a year from now no one will know the difference or likely care one way or the other <grin>. Rule 1 - don't sweat the small stuff. Rule 2 - most things are small stuff. <grin> -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "jlv_rt" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1a8f01c4b535$ae4a8530$gbl... |
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