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- No pressure or anything! (HA!) (Long)
- Inserting a fixed date task into an adjusting time line
- How can I view a Project file without the software?
- Too many resources
- Background color
- MS should provide a FREE MS project viewer............
- How do I get the base calendar to reflect 09:00 to 17:30 working .
- Completed tasks
- Printing in Project
- Progress Bar does not match percent complete
- import
- Multiple formatting preference sets ?
| No pressure or anything! (HA!) (Long) Posted: 27 Oct 2004 10:59 AM PDT I can't type as fast or as much as Steve House has already done, but on top of the truth he has told you, here are some helpful hints. They are interspersed in your post below: -- -Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project .. "lamby74" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... Project matter Go to tools menu. tracking. save baseline. Then switch to the tracking view or any other view which displays the baseline. There is not much you can do to screw up the baseline except deleting tasks or overwriting it by accident. No one can unless it is a simple case, Project is supposed to do this for you. One doesn't expect to know the bottom line in a complicated spreadsheet before excel calculates it. Project is at it's heart just a schedule calculator. You write the equation, it does the work. You can practice writing equations by developing simple schedules (with two or three tasks) and trying out the various settings. This is a very good way to learn. It is all explained in the help. You just need to read it and read it again and then one more time to be sure. Did I mention practicing on small schedules. See above and above that. mortgage No. When you have the schedule the way you want, save a baseline and a copy of the file. Any edits from this point on will affect your schedule and there is no undo. it predict its This is true. It all depends on the equation and conditions you have set. Try some practice schedules with tasks set to various types (effort driven or not, Fixed work, fixed duration, fixed units). Project is supposed to give you an answer. If you have a correct model it (generally - there are cases where there may be a bug) gives you a correct answer. This is the whole purpose of the tool. Resource to the w=d*u correct? Yes, but at a certain point it becomes rather complicated and overwhelms my brain. To retain sanity, I simplify my schedules to a certain extent and only model what it important. I also do not worry about the occasional minute or even day that it may be off. In any event, plans and predictions of the future can not be 100% accurate. Expecting that they are is, to put it mildly, insane. No. I think you can give him bottom-line answers with a little practice. They may not be the answer he wants, but project just does what it is told. -Jack |
| Inserting a fixed date task into an adjusting time line Posted: 27 Oct 2004 08:25 AM PDT Hi Maichael, Power Point doesn't do Resource Leveling, Project does :-)) Yes there is an algorithm - Only a few days ago I gave an overview but I forgot the title of the thread :-( By all means, Assignments/tasks with the lowest priority are postponed And you can tune priority, it is a task fieled, insofar you have selected "Priority, Standard" in the Leveling Order box of the Resource Leveling window. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Michael McGillick" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... how tasks, a concept). to the 20 have a not levelled. this in I've not I pulls How make working tasks needed by three task, adjusting |
| How can I view a Project file without the software? Posted: 27 Oct 2004 07:27 AM PDT Hi THinson, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) No - sorry :( You might be able to purchase an older version of Project on ebay. 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 THinson wrote: |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2004 07:21 AM PDT I don't have any ideas to offer. It seems you have painted yourself into a bit of a corner by trying to simplify things. Consider, even for the projects where you haven't run into a problem, if each project is represented by a single task entry in your plan and there is more than one going on at once, having the same resource on more than one plan doesn't necessarily mean he's overallocated. For discussion lets say there are 3 projects going on at once, each lasting 2 months. Joe is assigned to all three. By representing them your way, he is going to show overleeveraged, triple booked for his time. In fact it could be fine because project A only needs him the first 2 weeks, project B uses him during week 3, 4, and 5, and project C uses him the rest of the time. Incorporating the detail task breakdowns would let you see that but simply showing each project as a single task won't. Certainly an enterprise level master plan makes a lot of sense but it requires some cooperation on the part of the fucntional PMs as well as things you can do on your own (such as getting everyone up to speed on MS Project and moving the holdouts over from Excel). My best advice is to bite the bullet and do it by the book - sorry. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "tonik" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2004 06:23 AM PDT Hi Anna, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Not possible, sorry :( 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 Anna wrote: |
| MS should provide a FREE MS project viewer............ Posted: 27 Oct 2004 06:01 AM PDT Hi jt, 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 jt wrote: |
| How do I get the base calendar to reflect 09:00 to 17:30 working . Posted: 27 Oct 2004 04:29 AM PDT You can edit the standard calendar just like any other. But the hours you will get when editing any base calendar when you click the radio button "Use Default" in the upper right part of the change working time dialog box will always be 08:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00 and that cannot be changed. Those hours are hard coded and there is not way to modify them, not even a registry hack. You can define any hours you want to be the normal workday but anything other than 0800-1200 and 1300-1700 is "non-default working time" by definition. You can simplify it so you don't have to redo it every new project if that's your objective. Open the standard calendar in Change Working Time, select all the column headings for the week, click the "Nondefault working time" button and enter 09:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:30 (or whatever your lunch period is). Probably a good idea to also click Options and change the default start time and default end time entries to 09:00 and 17:30 as well - this doesn't change the calendar but usually should agree with it. Also set the "hours per day" to 7.5 and if you work a 5 day week, the "hours per week" to 37.5. Click "Set As Default" then click OK to close the dialog boxes and save changes. Now in the menu choose Tools, Organizer and select the Calendars tab. The calendars in the global will be listed on the left. The calendars in your current project, including the standard you just modified, will be listed on the right. Select the edited Standard calendar in the right column and click the "<<copy" button in the middle to copy it over into global and overwrite the old version there. Now the normal calendar for all projects will refelct the 0900-1730 work hours. Clicking "use default" for a day will revert it back to 0800-1700, nothing to be done about that, but at least you don't have to edit the calendar each time you start a new project to set it up for your company's work schedule. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Ever Optimistic" <Ever microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2004 02:45 AM PDT Duh! - I wasn't thinking filters:( Mike Glen Project MVP Gordon Blair wrote: |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2004 01:53 PM PDT Hi Eddie, You are very welcome. Glad to have helped and thanks for the feedback. Julie "Ecain25" wrote: |
| Progress Bar does not match percent complete Posted: 26 Oct 2004 01:11 PM PDT Hi Glen, Check the calculation tab in the Tools --> Options dialog box. There are several settings there that affect how tracking updates tasks. It may be possible that the old file has different settings than the new file. Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along. Julie "Glenn" wrote: |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2004 01:15 AM PDT There's a bunch of things here I find confusing. First of all you said "in my calendar and the default calendar" but that's not the hours per day I'm talking about. In the menu find Tools / Options / Calendar. On that setup page you'll find "Hours per day" "Hours per week" and "Days per month" entries. Those fields control how a duration is, say, 3 days, is turned into hours for storage. Changing the entries on that page DOES NOT change your working time calendar but they are the conversion factors used to convert the various valid units of duration to and from hours. You can think of it as the Options determine how MANY hours you're talking about when you say "1 day" while the working time calendar determines WHICH hours out of the 24 count as working hours. If you have it set to 8 hours per day and enter a task with a duration of "1 day" you'll find the task runs from 8am to 5pm using the default calendar. If you then change the "hours per day" entry to 7 hours, changing nothing else, and look that task, you'll find the duration will now read 1.14 days even though the times are still 8am to 5pm for 8 hours of work. That's because you've change the definition of the number of hours called a "day" but that does not change the number of hours the task will require. Work and duration are not the same thing. Work measures the effort required while duration measures the time it takes. Your 7 hours of work would require a duration of 1 hour if all 7 resources are assigned 100% and work together, 7 hours duration if they work at 100% but in sequence for 1 hour each, 5 days duration if they work in sequence but at only around 18% effort, or any number of other combinations. There are so many factors involved with both with the specifics of the file you're importing the data from and the project you're appending the data into that it's hard to say just exactly what's going on from the information you've provided. If you want to email the files to me I'd be happy to take a look and see what I can figure out. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer/Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "parastoo mousavi" <com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Multiple formatting preference sets ? Posted: 25 Oct 2004 09:24 PM PDT Hi Gershon two methods - record a macro that displays / hides the columns - tag this onto the macro that displays the views from the toolbar buttons (if you went with this initial suggestion of mine). OR create custom tables for each of the views - same method as the views just under view / tables / more tables .... you can then customise the views that you created to read these tables rather than the default "entry" table (view / more views - edit). let me know if you need further assistance with this. Regards JulieD "Gershon Shamay" <com> wrote in message news:eWhsu%phx.gbl... |
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