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| actual completion date versus task calendar date Posted: 30 Dec 2004 12:25 PM PST One hour per day is the equivalent of a 12.5% resource assignment level if the resource's calendar says he works an 8 hour workday. Your task begins Jan 1st?? New Years Day isn't a holiday and your resource works weekends? For discussion lets say your resource works 8-5 M-F, 5 days @ 8 hours/day for a 40-hour workweek. Task X which requires 24 man-hours of work begins the first workday in Jan, Mon 03 Jan. If your resource worked full-time on it, it would finish Wed at 5 pm, 24 working hours later or 3 workdays. But your resource is only working 1 hour per day - that means the task duration will require 24 days to accumulate 24 man-hours of work. Enter the task with a duration of 24 days, assign the resource at 12.5% and when you display the work column, split the screen for instance, you'll see that it shows 24 man-hours of work being performed. Alternately, enter the task as 3 days duration, assign the resource 100% and then EDIT the resource assignment to reduce it to 12.5% and Project will calculate a new duration of 24 days. In either case, the result is a task that starts Mon 03 Jan and ends Thur 03 Feb with the task following it ln the link starting Fri 04 Feb -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Lina" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Change font color of 'custom field' value Posted: 30 Dec 2004 08:45 AM PST Thanks. Just a few minutes a go I figured out how to do it using a 'Customized Field'. Within this field I used the 'Value List' indicating possible values (low/med/high), then I used 'Graphical Indicators' setting 'low' = green button, and so on. Works great! Now it's easy to pickup trouble spots on 100+ task plans. In addition, I set 'summary rows' = white button so as not to confuse the real status of a summary task. "John" wrote: |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2004 01:21 AM PST Rod, No, the contour is not available in the resource usage or task usage view. All I see (when I diuble-click a task in teh resource usage view), is the label. In Dutch, it is called "werklastbeschrijving:". There is no possibility to select one of the predefined options: there is simply no drop-down. May be, it has something to do with the Dutch version? Or is it some option with the professional version. I use it as a stand-alone version (therefore, I 'd better shoudl use the Standaard version, but this is the one I got from work). I don't use Microsoft Server 2003. Thanks for your time. "Rod Gill" <rodg AT project HYPHEN systems DOT co DOT nz> schreef in bericht news:%phx.gbl... |
| How do I 'start date' = current date & 'finish date' = fixed date Posted: 29 Dec 2004 01:13 PM PST Agreed. I will back track and adjust. "Steve House [MVP]" wrote: |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2004 01:07 PM PST Nancy -- The books you have already purchased deal specifically with Microsoft Project and not with Project Server. Our books deal specifically with Project Server. Please feel free to download the table of contents for the administrator's book to confirm the content you seek, but I do believe our book will provide the knowledge you need to create the document. In our book, we detail the exact permissions for every Group and Category, and explain in detail how the use of the RBS field controls security in Project Server. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "Nancy Wood" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2004 12:29 PM PST Hi Lia, Try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/. Mike Glen Project MVP Lia wrote: |
| Errors in Outlook generated from PWA Posted: 28 Dec 2004 09:41 AM PST Thanks Mike. I posted it there as well and within the Outlook sections. "Mike Glen" wrote: |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2004 06:43 PM PST I would parse it this way: Talent: Innate ability Skill: Acquired ability On 12/28/04 3:49 PM, in article phx.gbl, "Bill Swihart" <com> wrote: Ken Gorelick |
| Text Fields between Gantt and Resource View Posted: 27 Dec 2004 06:31 PM PST deluth wrote: Does the macro you have put Task Text field values into the Assignment Text fields so they can be seen in the Usage View? If so that macro can be easily redone to put resource text fields in as well. But they cannot be used at the same time since one puts resource fields in and one puts task fields in. The only way both can work is if One set puts the (for example) Task Text 1 field into the Assignment Text1 field and then the other puts the Resource Text 1 field into Assignment Text2. Then you could have both working together. Here are macros that will do what you want (I think). One for tasks and one for resources. you will need to edit the "Text1" parts to get them right for your situation. Sub RestoAssn() Dim R As Resource Dim A As Assignment For Each R In ActiveProject.Resources If Not (R Is Nothing) Then For Each A In R.Assignments A.Text1 = R.Text1 Next A End If Next R End Sub Sub TasktoAssn() Dim T As Task Dim A As Assignment For Each T In ActiveProject.Tasks If Not (T Is Nothing) Then For Each A In T.Assignments A.Text2 = T.Text1 Next A End If Next T End Sub -- ___ Brian K Project MVP http://www.projectified.com Project Server Consultant http://www.quantumpm.com |
| Team Leads rejecting task updates Posted: 27 Dec 2004 04:23 PM PST Andy -- They won't see the updates on the Updates page. They will see each delegated task on their timesheet in PWA, and will see the actuals entered by the team members there. The team lead must then select the task and click the Update All or Update Selected Task button to submit the actuals to the project manager. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "Andy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2004 12:27 PM PST Unlike work resources you can't change the materials and have the duration change as a result. Changing duration, though, can change the total materials consumed, depending on how you enter it in the resource assignment to begin with. Let's say your resource is fuel for a generator. The generator itself is a work resource but the fuel is a material resource and the resource list will have both entries along with the people working in your project. You would enter the fuel in the resource sheet with the name would be "fuel," the type "material," the material label might be "gallons" and the standard rate would be the cost per unit in the material label, for instance entering $2.00 in the standard rate would mean it costs $2.00/gallon. Now let's say your generator uses 5 gallons per hour. When you assign resources to the task that uses the generator you would include in the list "Fuel" along with the people, etc, and in the assignment units column for the fuel you would enter "5/hr" without the quotes. Now Project will multiply the task duration in hours by 5 to determine the total gallons used and that in turn by $2 to determine the cost of fuel for that one task. If the duration changes later, it will automatically recompute the number of gallons for the new duration. You can see that calculation in action if you split the screen and in the bottom window right mouse and select the "resource cost" form. OTOH, the other way to account for materials is to enter the actual expected total consumption of the material by the task using it. If you're doing a 100 metre long wall 1 metre high it will take the same number of bricks for the wall regardless of how long it takes to do it. For that one, the resource sheet would have "Bricks," the label would be perhaps "each" and the standard rate would be "$1.50"" the cost per brick. When you assign resources to the "Build The Wall" task the resource list would be "Joe Bricklayer, 100%" and "Bricks, 5000" meaning it will require 5000 bricks for the wall. Notice that the "/hr" is missing in this case, indicating it will take 5000 bricks regardless of whether it takes 1 day or 1 week to build the wall. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Steph" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| How to you track multiple resource time associated with multiple . Posted: 23 Dec 2004 08:29 AM PST Hi Firstlady, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #18 – Multiple Project Management, at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23 (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 firstlady wrote: |
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