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- Resource Allocation & Resource Sheet...
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- Can I disable the automatic changing of Duration?
- Print a range of pages of a gantt
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- How do I use customized fields in reports?
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- Setting tasks to fix duration moves the start & finish dates
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| resource name won't capitalize Posted: 16 Jun 2005 01:00 PM PDT egs -- By chance, does your spell checker in Microsoft Word automatically correct "Theo" with "theo"? If so, the spell checker in Project uses the spell check information specified in Word. Let us know. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com http://www.projectserverexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "egs" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Resource Allocation & Resource Sheet... Posted: 16 Jun 2005 12:40 PM PDT I believe part of my problem was that I was not realizing that the total hours for the task are computed when the first resource is assigned (at least that's what it's looking like to me). Still stumped on why the time increased... The time / task relationship is what is giving me the hardest time... I used a 24hr calendar for a task, and then assigned a resource with a 10hr schedule, no weekends, to it... I was hoping that the task duration would increase since that resource could not work on the weekends. Is there a way to accomplish that or do I need to change each task's calendar to coincide with the allocated resources? Gérard Ducouret wrote: |
| Same Resource in Master Schedule? Posted: 16 Jun 2005 10:05 AM PDT Excellent. My problem was that I set up my individual projects before setting up my master. I think that the best way to go about this is to: 1. Create the master schedule with all resources. 2. Create the sub schedule 3. Assign that the sub schedule use the resources from the master It's all so simple now. Thanks for your help! "Gérard Ducouret" <fr> wrote in message news:#pl$phx.gbl... |
| Can I disable the automatic changing of Duration? Posted: 15 Jun 2005 10:15 PM PDT Jumping in, I can 't think of any circumstance at all. There's the joke that says when you interview a candidate for an accounting job, the one to hire is the guy that answers "What would you liike it to be?" when you ask him "What's 2 plus 2?" In the real world I would never, ever, under any circumstance want a program to tell me 2+2 is 5 or that when working an 8 hour a day, 5 day a week calendar there are 24 hours of duration in a task that starts July 1st and ends August 1st. Neither is mathematically valid - they're just plain wrong - and one of the reasons for using a program like MS Project is to short-circuit the human propensity for self-delusion. A useful program is one that stubbornly refuses to give me wrong answers no matter how badly I want them . -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "John" <com> wrote in message news:microsoft.com... |
| Print a range of pages of a gantt Posted: 15 Jun 2005 04:25 PM PDT Hi refreshe , Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Please see FAQ Item: 44. Printing Problems 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 refreshe wrote: |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2005 11:47 AM PDT I know in Project 98 I can double click on the cell and it takes me to the other "side" of the link. "Peter" wrote: |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2005 09:15 AM PDT In article <com>, "Philg" <microsoft.com> wrote: Phil, Are you saying, you can't export hours? If so, I don't understand. I thought you were the one running the utility and if so, you should be able to export hours, days or whatever. Just for reference a 470 line schedule is not large but 140 resources on that size schedule is rather unusual. Did I read your post correctly that the difference between the timescale values shown in Project and those exported to Excel is a NEGATIVE 700 man-days? What does the statement, ". . .the error's are within approx 18 of the activities" mean? In your "fix" process what view are you cutting/clearing/pasting resource name data? And what exactly does that do to "fix" what is exported by the utility? Your explanation provides more information but I'm afraid it raises more questions than it answers. I understand that describing a problem that is very clear to you isn't always easy to relate to someone else. Sometimes it's a "forest versus trees" kind of thing - you see the trees but all I see is a forest. Perhaps a more detailed explanation or a sample of what you are getting would be of more help. John Project MVP |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2005 08:42 AM PDT As Jan said ... But also an aside the task types such as "fixed work" or "fixed duration" really only have meaning when you are editing the assignm,ents of resources already on a task. The magic formula is Work=Duration * Units. It has a constant term, an independent variable that you are editing, and a dependent variable that Project is calculating. Task type simply tells Project which term should be held constant when you edit one of the other terms, thus indirectly telling it when you edit, say, a resource's units whether it should recompute the work or the duration for you. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Barny Blue" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2005 08:02 AM PDT In article <com>, "roadkill" <microsoft.com> wrote: Will, What article? You lost me. John |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2005 07:26 AM PDT You're welcome, Cecelia and good luck! :-) Mike Glen MS Project MVP Cecelia wrote: |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2005 02:41 AM PDT Hi Steve, thanks for the addition. I'd also like to add, that if you do not necessarily need Visio, you can create a WBS Chart with WBS Chart Pro: http://www.criticaltools.com Regards, Renke -- Renke Holert Allocatus - Linking MS Project with Outlook and Notes http://www.allocatus.com Project - Das Profibuch http://www.holert.com/project/profibuch "Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:phx.gbl... |
| How do I use customized fields in reports? Posted: 14 Jun 2005 08:18 AM PDT My mistake, Evie. In the Cash Flow report, you don't get to choose custom fields. You'd have to figure out how to get what you want in one of the fields available in the report, like Cost. Or use a different report which does allow you to select a table. Evie wrote: |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2005 06:48 AM PDT thank you, it worked Maurizio "Gérard Ducouret" wrote: |
| How to see details of link to Excel spreadsheet cell? Posted: 13 Jun 2005 06:30 PM PDT In article <phx.gbl>, "G Lykos" <com> wrote: George, You're welcome. John |
| Setting tasks to fix duration moves the start & finish dates Posted: 13 Jun 2005 02:57 PM PDT The only controls you have on the critical path are indirect controls where the path is affected by the decisions you have made regarding task sequencing and their durations if, and that's a very big "if," you can actually control the duration. IF a painter can apply paint at a maximum rate of 10 square feet of wall per hour, you have 250 square feet of wall to paint, and only one painter to do it with, that pretty well puts that task duration out of your control - it's going to be mighty close to 25 man-hours of effort required and the duration will be 25 working hours if the painter is fully committed and more than that if he only can devote part of his energy to that specific task. As Mike said, there is no difference in deleting a task on the critical path from deleting one that's not on the critical path - you simply delete it. Adding a task is equally simple but it may or may not end up a critical task or on the critical path. IMHO, task linkages are dictated by the nature of the physical processes involved in creating the task deliverables. Erecting walls is a predecessor to installing rafters not because we want to structure the work that way but rather because the law of gravity doesn't give us the option of setting the rafters in midair and then stuffing the walls in under them later. Another rule is that all tasks in the project will have at least one predecessor and one successor, except for the start and the end milestones. If a task has no other direct successor, it will still have the finish milestone linked to it. When your project is structured like that you will find there are usually multiple paths leading from the start to the end - one of them will be the longest of the alternatives and that is the critical path by definition. If the task you're adding belongs in that sequence due to the nature of the deliverable inputs it requires and the outputs it produces, it will add to the critical path. If it doesn't fit into that sequence of operations according to the nature of the physical process itself, then it doesn't add to the critical path. That's why I say you don't choose it - the structure of the project is pretty well something that is dictated by the nature of the work processes and as a PM part of our job is to discover the most efficient way of getting it done. Notice the operative word is "discover." It is a process of discovery, not an imposition of our will. Our will comes into play when we're defining the goals but once we decide what we want to achieve, we then discover the best way of achieving them. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "peterdelorme" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Using MS Proejct 2003 with Server Posted: 13 Jun 2005 12:12 PM PDT You're welcome, Ralph, and good luck! :-) Mike Glen MS Project MVP Ralph Suozzi wrote: |
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