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- Linking Project and Excel
- Clearing formatting
- Differing task Types
- Removing all traces of linked projects
- Have Project 2000, how to view WBS
- Project 4.1 to Project Standard 2003
- Unable to find a hot fix file in microsoft website.
- A method to have only durations?
- Using PERT on a task with multiple resources
- Why do I get extra copies when trying to delete files?
- Can a Project schedule be converted to a pdf file?
- Dur. Estimates, Assignments & Leveling question
- Highlighting Text in Project
- Urgent: Resources and Linked Projects Problems
- Save Baseline Greyed Out
- gantt chart lost in Project 2003
- Printing Project Plans in MS Project 2000
- Earned value calculations
- MS Project: Listing Resource Names by Task Bars
- Who does what Report.
- how to enter smaller task durations such as 20 seconds
- Overwriting a Plan on Project Server
- Leveling Splits Tasks Into Small Pieces
- Need Weekly Task List for Each Resource in Shared Resource Pool
- Cost in Project
| Posted: 09 May 2005 09:20 AM PDT Chris, I jumped the gun in my earlier reply - my apologies! Please also see FAQ #10 at http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm#Hidden%20Column -- Don L. "Chris C" wrote: |
| Posted: 09 May 2005 08:15 AM PDT Sorry... this feature applies to bar styles. Not to Text styles. Gérard Ducouret "Gérard Ducouret" <fr> a écrit dans le message de news:phx.gbl... |
| Posted: 09 May 2005 07:23 AM PDT Hi Steve, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) Not that I'm aware of. It is a task-level setting that Project takes into account when you change the assignment of resources on that task. Should you do so, then it could result in a recalculation of all the projects in your integrated plan depending upon how they're linked. Ditto if you level resources after making the changes. 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 Steve Scott wrote: |
| Removing all traces of linked projects Posted: 09 May 2005 03:07 AM PDT Hi Rod Thanks for the info. Is there a better way to achieve what it is I am trying to do? It sounds by your email as though this method could be at risk of corruption, particularly as a number of people could be updating the projects. Thanks again Alex "Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... view. clicking of view Resource |
| Have Project 2000, how to view WBS Posted: 09 May 2005 02:16 AM PDT What sort of WBS view are you talking about? Do you mean seeing the tasks in an organization chart heirarchy or do you mean seeing the WBS numbers along with the task names? -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "lordtri" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Project 4.1 to Project Standard 2003 Posted: 08 May 2005 03:28 AM PDT Hi , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Please see FAQ Item: 27. Project 4 to Project 2000 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 Tired and Confused wrote: |
| Unable to find a hot fix file in microsoft website. Posted: 07 May 2005 01:13 AM PDT Dears, Thank you so much i called Microsoft and downloaded the required hotfix. -- PMO Specialist "Brian K - Project MVP" wrote: |
| A method to have only durations? Posted: 07 May 2005 12:07 AM PDT Thank you for the explanation and being patient with me. Yes, "Elapsed time" is more accurate than "duration" and I will remember that. The frustration with this entire process is this: We simply want to enter a task ID 800 and the "elapsed time", in calendar days, that the vendor will have site access, because that is written in their contract--X days. [weekends, holidays, nights do not matter, it's X days] Then, as we negotiate with other vendors for their start dates and "elapsed times", we can easily determine the CP and sequencing. Now we see that task ID 750 is the previous event and task ID 850 follows this one. So, we click to link 750 to as the previous event to ID 800, then task ID 850 to follow. But no matter how we mess around, we can't get ID 800 to simply reflect 10 elapsed days. But we will try again Monday, using calendar and options. Thanks again. [actually, I do type on a cheese sandwich] <g> "Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%235Bnm$phx.gbl... dealing like your my confusing default Monday enter at as A Month" all starting task continuing "Joes" based counts. work of there duration 5 one Now month, is days shipments, |
| Using PERT on a task with multiple resources Posted: 06 May 2005 05:58 PM PDT Interesting concept. Let's say I did this... "Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> wrote in message news:%23BeA%phx.gbl... |
| Why do I get extra copies when trying to delete files? Posted: 06 May 2005 04:36 PM PDT Take your finger off the Ctrl key before pressing delete. If that doesn't fix it post in a Windows Explorer group. -- Rod Gill Project MVP Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more "Maine Lobster" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Can a Project schedule be converted to a pdf file? Posted: 06 May 2005 03:21 PM PDT Hi , 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 convert project to pdf wrote: |
| Dur. Estimates, Assignments & Leveling question Posted: 06 May 2005 01:45 PM PDT FYI, the assignment percentages don't mean quite what you may think they mean. If a resource is assigned X percentage to a task of Y duration, it does NOT mean he's only working on the task for that portion of the duration. If you assign the SME to a 6 hour task at 33.3%, it means he's physically working on the task over the course of all 6 of those hours but he's also doing other things at the same time and so is only producing what he'd get done in 2 hours if he was giving it his full attention. A similar reasoning applies for the DEV. If you assign both the SME at 33.3% and the DEV at 66.7% to a 6 hour hour task and then look at the resource usage view with the timescale expanded to show the hours though the day, you will not see the SME working 2 hours and the DEV working 4. You'll see them both working side by side for all 6hours but the SME will be generating 20 minutes of work for each hour on the task (.33 hr) and the DEV generating 40 minutes. If you really want to show the SME puts in 2 hours and then goes away while the DEV comes on-board at that point and continues on for 4 more hours, you need to show it in one of two ways. You can show it with the lesson is a summary task with one 2-hour subtask under it with the SME assigned at 100% and a second 4-hour subtask with DEV assigned 100% to it and the two tasks linked FS. Or you can show the lesson as a single 6-hour task and then use the split screen to enter the assignments in the bottom Task Form window, Resource Work formatting, entering the SME assigned 100% and 2 hours of work and the DEV assigned 100% with 4 hours work AND a 2-hour delay for his work entered manually as well. This means the SME starts at the beginning of the task and devotes full attention to it for 2 hours, then the DEV comes on and devotes full attention to it for the remaining 4. Either of these two methods will distribute the work correctly, but in choosing which one to use I'd personally prefer the former. The work itself of the SME and the DEV is quite different and the SME's work is producing a unique deliverable that is then handed off the the DEV as input for his work. The DEV's output is quite different from the SME's output. This quality of the difference in the nature of the work itself and the uniquness of the deliverables produced by each resource indicates they are two separate and clearly distinct tasks and theoretically they could even be done at separate times (the SME writing up a set of notes and then sending them to the DEV who writes the lesson later). As I write the above it occurs to be that I'd expect the DEV to actually devote all 6 hours of the task's duration to it, an assignment of 100% to a 6-hour task producing 6 man-hours of labour. Whenever I have been personally been involved in or observed similar work activities, the writer and the subject matter expert work together at the start of the task to determine the lesson content, then the SME goes away and the DEV then writes up the lesson document itself based on the notes he kept during the conversation with the SME. IF that's the case for you, the most accurate model of all is to show the lesson as a summary task, with the SME's work a 2-hour subtask and the DEV's work a 6 hour-subtask, both resources assigned 100% to their respective tasks and the two tasks linked SS so they start at the same time. The summary task's duration will be 6 hours since the two subtasks occur in parallel and the lesson will require a total of 8 man-hours of work. As an aside, I'm curious how you can determine in advance the amount of work each lesson will require and say they are all equal? Have you actually determined experientially that it requires 6 to 8 man-hours of effort to write a lesson or is it based on "managment by objective" logic like "We can only afford for them to take 6 hours to write a lesson and so that's what they'll have to do it in"? Basing it on historical duration - "In past projects Joe Writer has produced on average a lesson a day" - seems more reliable. I'm always leery of precise advance work estimates as opposed to duration estimates when the output is an intangible (and in your case, while the typed up lesson is a tangible output, the content of the lesson - the substance of the work effort itself - is not). And estimates of either work OR duration for creative endeavors such as writing are never very tidy - some modules may fly out requiring only a couple of hours to knock off while others may fester for days before the creative "Ah HAH, that's the way to do it!" moment occurs. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "fxs" <com> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... |
| Posted: 06 May 2005 12:55 PM PDT You're welcome, Rick :-) Mike Glen MS Project MVP Rick Wilson wrote: |
| Urgent: Resources and Linked Projects Problems Posted: 06 May 2005 11:02 AM PDT There is a much simpler solution. Create a Resource Pool, a file with only resources in it. All your resources. Then, link your separate projects to it. Open each file while the Resource Pool is open. Go into the schedules and do a "Tools, Resource Sharing, Share Resources". Leave the default settings and click OK. Do the same for every file you want to share the Resource Pool. When you want to create the Master Project, open the Resource Pool. A dialog box with 3 options will appear - select option 3, "Create Master Project" (or something like that. I don't have Project on this computer). Project will then make a composite which will have all the projects in it, and without the problems you've described. Best of luck! |
| Posted: 06 May 2005 04:10 AM PDT Hi if you ever come across the solution i would be interested in knowing it ... -- Cheers JulieD check out www.hcts.net.au/tipsandtricks.htm ....well i'm working on it anyway "Java Hound" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| gantt chart lost in Project 2003 Posted: 05 May 2005 10:46 PM PDT Hi, If it's the table side someone may have defined a table with all zero width columns. That is sometimes done to print only the right part without the two first colums. You might have had a look at View, Table, More Tables, Edit. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "Irvine" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... the just <microsoft.com> chart |
| Printing Project Plans in MS Project 2000 Posted: 05 May 2005 12:50 PM PDT Hi JLS, SR-1 was the service release for Microsoft Project 2000. See the following link for download details: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288953 Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along. Julie "JLS" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 05 May 2005 11:00 AM PDT If Project is applying work in the future you';re taking the shortcut of simply marking a task with X percentage complete without entering actual work on the dates it occured. Updating the task with % complete using the toolbar or the "Update Project" tools in the Tools Tracking menu the percentage assumes the work on the task has been done exactly according to plan. If it's antythhing else you need to post it the long way by entering the ACtual Start date for the point in time where the work was first done on the task and entering the Actual Duration and Remaining Duration fields or using the Usage View and entering actual work hours on the days where the work was done. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "CWW" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| MS Project: Listing Resource Names by Task Bars Posted: 05 May 2005 09:24 AM PDT Hi John, You are very welcome and thanks for the feedback. Let us know if we can assist again in the future. Julie "John Lucero Criswell" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 05 May 2005 08:56 AM PDT You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. Julie "nde" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| how to enter smaller task durations such as 20 seconds Posted: 04 May 2005 11:46 PM PDT Any time I want to schedule and track tasks of very short duration, such as "verify equipment has been delivered", I set it up as a 'milestone' (0 in duration column) which can still be scheduled and marked as 'complete' and have dependencies, etc. -- Mark Byington, PMP "Wasantha K Weerakoone" wrote: |
| Overwriting a Plan on Project Server Posted: 04 May 2005 09:31 PM PDT Greg -- Your PM screwed up big-time by saving an .mpp copy of his project and then making revisions to it while team members were submitted progress on that project. What he should have done is to save the project as an Offline project (File - Save Offline) and then he would not be facing these problems. To solve this problem, somebody is going to lose something in the process. Therefore, I would recommend the following process: 1. The PM should accept all tasks updates into the old version of the project and ask team members to cease submitting actuals 2. The PM should save and publish the old version of the project 3. You (the PS admin) should delete the project and its accompanying WSS subweb from the Project Server database 4. The PM should import the new version of the project using Tools - Enterprise Options - Import Project to Enterprise 5. The PM should publish the project using Collaborate - Publish - All Information 6. The PM should republish all assignments using Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments with the "Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option selected 7. The PM should ask his team members to RESUBMIT actuals for all in-progress tasks, even if they submitted those same actuals in the old version of the project 8. The PM should promise NEVER to do this again! Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant Denver, Colorado http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the books on Project Server" "Greg B" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Leveling Splits Tasks Into Small Pieces Posted: 04 May 2005 02:52 PM PDT Leveling doesn't assign resources or change their assignments. All it can do is delay when some or all of their work on the task will take place in order to resolve double bookings. It can split the task up when necessary to resolve overallocation conflicts with a higher priority task in a time frame shorter than the task duration or you can set it so it will move the entire task as a block to resolve an overallocation during any part of it. Joe is booked to task A for 5 days starting Monday. He's also booked to higher priority 1-day task B on Wednesday, higher priority meaning it's more important for B to start and finish Wed than it is for A to finish Fri. Leveling will either split A to free him up on Wednesday, moving the remainder of A to resume Thursday and finish Monday or it can move the entire task A to start on Thurs and finish the following Wed. (Using days for illustration but the principle applies equally to hours as well.) Anything more sophisticated than that you'll have to resolve by hand. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "FSinIDuser" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Need Weekly Task List for Each Resource in Shared Resource Pool Posted: 04 May 2005 01:02 PM PDT Hi, For starters, you can change the timescale in the view to reflect the week as minor scale. Filter for incomplete taks and Sort on Start date may help as well. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 <com> schreef in bericht news:googlegroups.com... |
| Posted: 04 May 2005 09:36 AM PDT Thanks Mike, I'll read the information and practice. "Mike Glen" wrote: |
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