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- Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003
- Differnce between Save and publish all information?
- How to control order that resources are listed per task?
- Project timescale Half-Day?
- Convert the units of Work from Dys to Hrs?
- Viewing old MS Project files (pre 98) without the old software
- Problem with dates/durations on a plan containing imported data
- Calculated Field Overide?
- How can I allow shared edit access to a Project file?
- Project allocating duration/resources
- Can I use workgroup email in project 2003
- how do I constrain a task to a day of the week
- How do I enter calender dates from 1960 in Project?
- Sharing resources from a subproject inside a master project
- tracking work and cost independently -- bug in MSP 2003?
- % work completed for subtasks
- Don't laugh - need help w/basic reporting questions
- Duration dates change when e-mailing to coworkers
- Tracking Fixed Costs
- Cannot change % complete after finish date has passed
- Exporting a project into Visio as a flow chart
- task type definition
- Can I Change the Calucation for Percentage Complete?
- Some of the Summary bars in the file contain different dates!!
- Resource Group Question
| Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003 Posted: 13 Jan 2005 12:39 PM PST Hi Patrick, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) I suggest you use File/Print Preview and then Page Setup where you can add a Header or Footer to your prints. 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 Patrick wrote: |
| Differnce between Save and publish all information? Posted: 13 Jan 2005 09:33 AM PST If you use Microsoft Project Server for team collaboration, you can publish the most current project information so that others (such as team members, project managers, or other stakeholders) can have access to it. Project information published to Microsoft Project Server can be viewed in the Project Center page in Microsoft Project Web Access. -- Felicia Jacobs Microsoft PSS This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ================================================== ======== Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is for newsgroup purposes only. When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue. ================================================== ======== "Susan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| How to control order that resources are listed per task? Posted: 13 Jan 2005 09:03 AM PST Thanks Davegb. Seems in the Assign Resources box (alt+F10) it keeps them in alpha order, but you're right, when they display at the task level they seem to be in order of assignment. I was looking in two places and it seemed inconsistent. "davegb" wrote: |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:53 AM PST Dave White wrote: You could set your timescale to hours and set the count to 4. If you have an 8 hour day this will be roughly half day. -- ___ Brian K Project MVP http://www.projectified.com Project Server Consultant http://www.quantumpm.com |
| Convert the units of Work from Dys to Hrs? Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:37 AM PST It is essential to understand that duration and work are not the same measure. Duration measures time but work measures sweat. That is why I always try to refer to duration by "hours" but work by its proper unit "man-hours." If you had 1 man working full speed for 1 day, you have 1 man-day of work. If you have 1 man working full speed for 10 days, you have 10 man-days of work. BUT, if you have 10 men working full speed for 1 day you ALSO have 10 man-days of work. Work measures the total useful output you're getting and duration measures how long it takes to get it. The units is a percentage that reflects how much of the duration is getting translated into useful work output and so indicates the rate that work is getting done. The Prime Directive is Work=Duration*Units. If I work 8 hours duration at 100% units, I do 8 man-hours of work. But if I do 8 hours of duration at 50% units, I only do 4 man-hours of work. Maybe I'm talking with my buddy and not working at full speed. Or maybe I'm juggling two things at once and can't really devote full attention to either of them and as a result each of them takes me longer to complete than if I was working on just that one thing. If I have 1 person doing 10 days duration (80 hours) at 2% units, he does 80*.02 or 1.6 man-hours of work, spread out over the 10 days of working time. In other words it has taken him 10 days to achieve what WOULD have only taken an hour and a half if he had devoted his full attention to it. 11 people working 48 hours duration at 2% units each is 48 * .02 * 11 or 10.56 man-hours of work - the team is taking over a week to accomplish what should have taken them only an hour if they had got their act together and pulled together as a team to get 'er done ASAP. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "bradsaxon" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Viewing old MS Project files (pre 98) without the old software Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:15 AM PST Nope - but you can probably get copy of P98 on eBay for just a few bucks. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "pturocy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Problem with dates/durations on a plan containing imported data Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:05 AM PST Hi Peter, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) On another tack, decimal durations often spring from a mis-match between workin hours set in your calendars and those imposed by settings in Tools/Options.../Calendar tab. You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours 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 Peter Rooney wrote: |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2005 07:41 AM PST Use two fields. Example Text1, Text2 Use Text1 for manual entry Put a formula in text2 which uses Text1 if it is not blank, otherwise use the formula you wanted. iif([Text1]<>"", [Text1], (whatever your formula is here)) -- -Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project .. "Steve Scott" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... only. |
| How can I allow shared edit access to a Project file? Posted: 13 Jan 2005 07:19 AM PST OK. ;-( Thanks, I'll start learning about linking .mpp files. ;-) "Sarah" wrote: |
| Project allocating duration/resources Posted: 13 Jan 2005 02:35 AM PST Someone suggested creating a calendar showing Saturday and setting that as the task calendar for that specific task and that's certainly a good way to do it. As long as all resources have Saturday as a valid work day according to their calendar you could also introduce a manual delay into the two who are initially scheduled earlier in the week so they're moved to Saturday. This is one of those special cases where manual methods take over. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Jack Shearer" <com> wrote in message news:yqyFd.117228$bigpond.net.au... |
| Can I use workgroup email in project 2003 Posted: 13 Jan 2005 01:43 AM PST Once the add in has been installed the workgroup feature works as previous. According to Microsoft the next version will not have the email capacity at all. Backward step in my view as many small businesses can't afford to run Project Server "ALEE" wrote: |
| how do I constrain a task to a day of the week Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:31 PM PST thankyou, that's perfcect :) Paul "JulieD" wrote: |
| How do I enter calender dates from 1960 in Project? Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:21 PM PST Interesting application. I wouldn't have chosen Project for this. Would probably use Excel, or a roll of butcher paper! |
| Sharing resources from a subproject inside a master project Posted: 12 Jan 2005 02:33 PM PST Hi, This sounds different from what I am used to. Are you using Project Server? Or a very old version of Project like 4.X? Greets, -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project MVP +32 495 300 620 http://users.online.be/prom-ade "flaproject2005" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... as assignments master and use |
| tracking work and cost independently -- bug in MSP 2003? Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:39 PM PST I see what you mean. But if you do set the task to 100%, the total cost drops out the original cost of the resource work and reverts to just the value you have manually entered into the actual cost. Using your figures and setting work to 10 hours and entering $2000 as actual cost, your second table there, it does in fact show remaining cost to be 22500 and total cost to be 24500. But if you now set the task to 100% complete and enter $5000 in Actual Cost, remaining cost become zero, actual cost is your $5000 manually entered, and total cost is also $5000. While the total cost is bogus while the task is in progress, once the task is complete it appears to resolve itself and get back to reality. As an aside, even if you don't know which resources will ultimately be assigned, I'd suggest listing generic resources - senior engineer, technician, etc - and doing the resource assignments anyway. The project is a triangle of scope, duration, and resources and leaving off any side means you only have part of the picture on hand to work with. You may not know which engineers you'll have but if you know certain tasks need those skills and you know how many you have to draw on, you can schedule your project accordingly and avoid rude surprises later when you have more work scheduled in a certain time period than you have resources available who have the required skills. You can always come back later and fill in the names when they're known. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "salilu" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:23 PM PST First thing to check is to make sure automatic recalculation is turned on. Tools menu, Options, Calculation tab. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Laney" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Don't laugh - need help w/basic reporting questions Posted: 12 Jan 2005 12:23 PM PST Great Matt. Glad to know you have your answers and thanks for the feedback. Let us know if you have further questions, we'll be happy to help. Julie "Matt Kennedy" wrote: |
| Duration dates change when e-mailing to coworkers Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:35 AM PST Can you give some more specific information - like what are the start and ends dates and times of representative tasks in question and what is the duration showing on each computer? What do the calendars have as the work hours settings? Is automatic recalculation turned on (Tools, Options, Calculation) with each computer? -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Samantha" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:23 AM PST In the example you give, IMO the licenses and the servers would be materials since they are incorporated in the project final deliverable. If I buy a $5000 laptop to use as a workstation in our new network, the workstation is part of the cost of the network and that makes it a material cost and all $5000 is part of the project budget. It remains a part of the network after the project is complete. OTOH, if I buy that laptop for an engineer to carry around to various sites to test the network communications as we do the installation it, its use in the project terminates when the project is finished and we can then use it for other things in our organization or even sell it if we wish. Its purchase price is not part of the project cost but the portion of its value that is used up over the course of the project would be. If we buy it for $5000 and resell it for $3000 6 months later after our network is up and running, the cost to the project is $2000. We can actually track that sort of cost by treating it as a work resource, weird as that sounds. If our laptop will depreciate $2000 in its first year of ownership, its "salary" is $2000/year or about $1/hr. If we use it for 10 hours setting up the router in location X, the cost to our project for the laptop in that task is $10. That doesn't represent the total cost to the firm but it does represent the portion of that cost that is part of our project's burden. The rest of it has to be accounted for elsewhere. In any case I would never track it as a task against which you book time. Tasks are always, without exception IMHO, observable physical activity of some sort. Rather it is either a material resource that is consumed by tasks, a work resource that does work in tasks, or perhaps part of the project overhead itself and carried as portion of the fixed costs for the tasks or project phases where it is used. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "ProjectUser" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Cannot change % complete after finish date has passed Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:15 AM PST It sounds like what you are calling "tasks" are really summary tasks - they are in bold and have sub-tasks indented underneath them, right? The real tasks are the sub-tasks and that's where all the work takes place. Most of the properties of summary tasks are calculated values only and things like their start, end, and duration cannot be edited directly. The summary task is complete when all of its subtasks are complete and not before. The start and end of a summary are determined by the start of the earliest subtask and the finish of the latest ending subtask. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Samantha" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Exporting a project into Visio as a flow chart Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:09 AM PST What's wrong with the network diagram? That *is* a flowchart of the project process if your WBS has been done correctly. If it's not, you really need to re-examine the identification and linking of the tasks in your project file before doing anything else because your WBS probably isn't a valid model. You didn't mention which version of Visio you're using. Since Visio 2000, there has been a macro that imports Project mpp files and creates Gantt charts, PERT charts (network diagram), or calendars in Visio from the data. Unfortunately it was broken in Visio 2000 and I've never seen it work properly in that version - the problem is in Visio itself and not dependent on the Project version. But the good news is that it was fixed in Visio2002/XP and later and works fine in the more recent versions. You'll find it under Macros in the Visio Tools menu. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Rachmur" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 12 Jan 2005 07:45 AM PST Probably should be "waxing fids" instead. Fids have to be nice and smooth and well-polished. LOL -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "davegb" <com> wrote in message news:googlegroups.com... |
| Can I Change the Calucation for Percentage Complete? Posted: 12 Jan 2005 07:25 AM PST In article <com>, "Laney" <microsoft.com> wrote: Laney, I'm not sure what you mean by "high-level task" but I assume you mean a Summary Line. Also when talking about percentage complete I assume you are referring to "% Complete" and not "% Work Complete" or "% Physical Complete" (later versions of Project). I also don't know what you mean by "least percentage complete" value. A Summary Line does not show the least percent complete of its subtasks. Rather, it calculates % Complete by the formula: Summary % Complete = (sum of subtask Actual Durations)/(sum of subtask total Durations) * 100% The validity of % Complete at a Summary Line is always of questionable value although I personally believe the formula shown above is more valid than an average value would be. For example, what if one subtask is 2 weeks in duration and all other subtasks are 2 days in duration? More than likely the 2 week task is of more importance but in an averaging scheme, its weight would be the same as the lesser tasks. However, you can use any formula you wish to calculate % Complete for a Summary Line. You will probably have to use VBA because a formula in a custom field wouldn't know how many subtasks to include in the averaging equation. Now that you've go my take on the averaging method, If you still want to pursue an averaging technique for % Complete at a Summary Line and need help with the VBA code, post again and we can help. Hope this helps. John Project MVP |
| Some of the Summary bars in the file contain different dates!! Posted: 12 Jan 2005 06:41 AM PST You might check to see that the file is sorted correctly. Do this from project menu and sort by ID. -- -Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project .. "BigFish311" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... OP corrupt. down another reference below. bars unsure would |
| Posted: 12 Jan 2005 06:37 AM PST You are welcome Roman. Thanks for the feedback. Julie "Roman Benko" wrote: |
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