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- Budget without Resources
- Why does Project display start/finish dates differently depending.
- How do I outdent a task that already has a summary task above it .
- Custom Filter by Summary Levels?
- Printing tasks
- Managing our complete company using Microsoft products
- view project with all subprojects and subprojects's tasks
- When we'll have printing that really prints what we wants? When M.
- how do i specify the hour that a task starts from?
- Work relating to Duration for Resources
- Is the TAB key is used to vertically align text?
- Need task table and assigment table info together
- Custom fields in Master project
- Linking and tracking resources over different projects
- how do i find Curriculum Vitae templates
- problems adjusting a duration
| Posted: 01 Feb 2005 12:59 PM PST In article <com>, "UCLAjazz" <microsoft.com> wrote: UCLAjazz, I gotta agree with Steve 100%. Maybe you could clarify something for us. If there are no resources (labor or material) then how are costs generated? Something has to generate a cost whether it is an individual, a group of people or procurement of material. If costs are being generated with no work being performed and/or no tangible items being procured, then your operation must be some branch of the Government because you have a financial black hole. You said that your "timeline isn't based on one individual doing studies". I hope you are aware that Project can just as easily accrue costs based on the effort of a group or team as it can for a single person doing the task. My guess is you probably have groups or teams expending effort. Those groups are resources and their effort is work which, except for volunteer effort, generates labor cost. How was the budget generated from summary tasks? In order to create a Summary Line in Project, there must be one or more subtasks that define the actual detail effort. I suspect someone laid out enough of the detail tasks to get an idea of what they would cost, either by using historical data or by current estimates. That "detail" cost was probably then rolled up to what you call the summary budget. Nothing wrong with that approach. It is exactly the bottoms up process Steve mentioned. Although I have also been in organizations where management (or a customer) decrees a budget. Not a good way to run a railroad, but it does happen. Before we can help you, you need to understand what you have and then explain it to us so it makes sense. Right now it doesn't. John Project MVP |
| Why does Project display start/finish dates differently depending. Posted: 01 Feb 2005 11:25 AM PST Hi Brian, The start date & times of tasks are determined by several things: * The start date & time of the project. (Set in Project>Project Information). * The definition of the working time (Set in Tools>Change Working time). * The definition of how many hours in a day and week (Set in Tools>Options Calendar tab.) *The task duration. * The link relationship between the task and its predecessor. * Any resource(s) assigned and their calendar definitions. All of these factors help project to determine the start date & time and the finish date & time of tasks. As much as humanly possible, you want Project to determine the start date & time and finish date & time of tasks. Entering the information in manually sets tasks constraints and greatly limits the ability of Project to create the schedule. (As well as creates headaches for you!) If you have just started learning project you may wish to see Mike Glen's series of articles at: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23 Hope this helps. Please let us know if we can help in any other way. Julie "BrianV11" wrote: |
| How do I outdent a task that already has a summary task above it . Posted: 01 Feb 2005 11:19 AM PST Hi Under the Gun, You don't mention which release of Project you are using, but MS Project 2003 had a bug that was fixed in the service release where you could not outdent a task once it had been indented. See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1B04C073-E58F-4F42-B76D-6B565A45CDC3&displaylang=en for download details. Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along. Julie "under the gun" wrote: |
| Custom Filter by Summary Levels? Posted: 01 Feb 2005 08:29 AM PST Thanks Jack. Before reading your reply, I was going to just use the WBS field, which works pretty good, except when you mentioned if things get out of order, the WBS will not help me, but the 'tags' will always be there as you just said. Thanks for you help. Joe "JackD" wrote: |
| Posted: 01 Feb 2005 07:53 AM PST Hello again, I just updated my driver but to no avail. I look at the MVP site, but couldn't find help there either and neither in the MS Knowledge area. any other idea? Thanks Denys "Gérard Ducouret" wrote: |
| Managing our complete company using Microsoft products Posted: 01 Feb 2005 07:15 AM PST Hi Steve that was very helpful, at least now I know that Project is not perfect for workflow and line-of-business operations. Project (and all other MS applications) are a big mystery to us. I guess we have to go through a learning phase before we make our final decisions. Would you know any MS application that would be doing or at least be the foundation of what we are looking for? "Line-of-business operations" would be the correct wording, I was looking for this. I fully agree with your point on confidentiality, and we do have no problem in general on that. But we are in a country where these rules don't apply or especially exactly these ethnics are ignored and/or not existing. At the place where we are, it is even a plus if you bring information from your ex-employee or previous contractor, it gives you a better salary. People consider this as part of their carrier, it's natural for them to work 2 years for company A, then take all their established customers and go to company B with them or just open up company B by themselves. It's Asia, the piracy hotspot and the place where people still have to learn a lot (Japan is an exception). Some of our people are from other places on this planet, with them we can count on these rules and ethnics, but not with local employees which are therefore only in positions where no harm can be done. It sounds maybe weird, but that's why you have lots of expats in Asia, unless it's a 100% Asian company which is not even aware of this. We are a small company in Asia, but the core is from the western world with western word ethnics (or was at least raised in the western world). Suzanne Woo -- "Steve House [MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| view project with all subprojects and subprojects's tasks Posted: 01 Feb 2005 06:03 AM PST In article <com>, JulieS <microsoft.com> wrote: Octavia, Just an added note to what Julie wrote. If you then save the master file in its fully "exploded" state, it will appear that way the next time you open it. John |
| When we'll have printing that really prints what we wants? When M. Posted: 01 Feb 2005 05:53 AM PST ..... not sure what happened there .... the email address is com However, i'm not sure what you mean by it being "hard to print a range of dates" - i find the timescale settings under file / print seem to work fine. Cheers JulieD "DavidL" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| how do i specify the hour that a task starts from? Posted: 01 Feb 2005 03:57 AM PST Hi Jason, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #5, 19 & 11, 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 Jason wrote: |
| Work relating to Duration for Resources Posted: 31 Jan 2005 09:43 PM PST Hi D'oug, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #10, 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 D'oug wrote: |
| Is the TAB key is used to vertically align text? Posted: 31 Jan 2005 04:11 PM PST No wonder you're confused! It *can* be used to vertically align text but it's not necessarily the only way or even the best way, depending on the specific requirements of the document. "Gayle B" <Gayle microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Need task table and assigment table info together Posted: 31 Jan 2005 02:21 PM PST In article <com>, "K Major" <microsoft.com> wrote: Kevin, First understand that Tasks, Resources and Assignments all have spare fields but those spare fields are not the same. In other words, Task Text1 is not the same as Resource Text1 or Assignment Text1. Task and Resource spare fields can be customized (e.g. insert a formula or value list) but Assignment spare fields cannot. As far as putting data into a spare Assignment field it is probably more easily explained with an example. Go to the Resource or Task Usage view. Insert Text1. For the Resource (or Task) rows, the spare field is the Resource (or Task) Text1 field. For the Assignment rows, the spare field is Assignment Text1 When working with VBA, there are generally no "tables" involved. Rather VBA code is used to access Project objects and their properties directly whether the object is a Task object, Resource object or Assignment object. For example the collection of Task objects is: ActiveProject.Tasks The collection of Resource objects is: ActiveProject.Resources And, the collection of Assignment objects for Task 1 is: ActiveProject.Tasks(1).Assignments There are many ways to gather the needed data from Project for exporting to Excel (or other VBA compatible application). It all depends on what you want/need to do. If you are interested in learning more about VBA, go to the MVP website at: http://www.mvps.org/project/links.htm At the bottom of the page you will find a link for "Project 98 Visual Basic Environment Training Materials". Even though it says it is for Project 98, the training materials are equally applicable to all current versions of Project. The only real difference is that later versions of Projects have enhanced the functionality (i.e. more objects in the object library). For several examples of VBA code, go to Jack Dahlgren's website at: http://masamiki.com/project/macros.htm One of his macros (export hierarchy to Excel) demonstrates export of Project data to Excel. Hope this helps. John Project MVP |
| Custom fields in Master project Posted: 31 Jan 2005 01:49 PM PST Thanks to you and to JulieS for the pointers. I have gathered that VBA and the formula functions and syntax aren't necessarily the same. I just figure if I understand VBA better, I'll be more successful with the functions and syntax! :-) ....L "JackD" wrote: |
| Linking and tracking resources over different projects Posted: 31 Jan 2005 12:11 PM PST Hi, You can just as well do it with Project Standard. If you do not use server pro has nothing more than standard. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "ericu" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... network |
| how do i find Curriculum Vitae templates Posted: 31 Jan 2005 10:49 AM PST good point ... i guess a recruitment / Personal Development company could provide the best information on what is considered "latest design" / "most acceptable" for the industry / country that you're looking to be employed in. However, i must admit whenever i've been recruiting "resume design" has not been one of the things i've looked for -per se. Cheers JuileD "JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2005 09:07 AM PST Thank you for your offer Jan! I may have answered my own question. After posting to the newsgroup, I went through the project and moved any predecessors from any summary task to the summary task's individual sub-tasks. I'm not sure why I had to do this, but it did make the scheduling error go away. Thanks again! --Willie |
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