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- How do I set my file to fill an 11x17 page?
- Can I change duration of tasks from days to weeks on a project%3f
- list selection button on field title
- task field list arrows
- How can I set & use a date beyond 12/31/2049?
- Overtime vs Straight Time
- Locking table definition (view)
- Inserting markers in timelines
- BCWS calculated for tasks starting after Status Date
- Best way to plan time spent on recurring tasks
- How do I report weeks worth of time at once?
- Can I merge project calendars? Link them See several projects at o
- Web Access 2003: Tasks or Projects tab redirecting to Home
- Help With Changing the Default Start Date
- physical % complete does not roll up
- Gantt Chart Views
| How do I set my file to fill an 11x17 page? Posted: 20 Jun 2005 10:25 AM PDT Hi buildingstuff , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) File/Print Preview/Page Setup/Page tab and Paper Size. 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 wrote: |
| Can I change duration of tasks from days to weeks on a project%3f Posted: 20 Jun 2005 07:27 AM PDT Hi, Just for ythe sake of precison, it is only possible to "WORK" with Project in minutes, the only time unit it uses for calculation. It is possible to SHOW time values in other units or evn ti ENTER time in a differnt unit, a Mike explaine. -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "Lorraine in ct" <Lorraine in microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... |
| list selection button on field title Posted: 20 Jun 2005 04:58 AM PDT This did help. Thank you, Julie. -- Jack "JulieS" wrote: |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2005 03:35 AM PDT Disregard this question. I've reposted the question with better clarity. -- Jack "Jack" wrote: |
| How can I set & use a date beyond 12/31/2049? Posted: 19 Jun 2005 08:02 AM PDT Place a milestone at 12/29/49 that says "And here a miracle occurs..." LOL Sorry but there's really nothing you can do about it. That date is implicit in the way Project tracks time internally as an integer count of 1/10 minute ticks of a clock that began 1/1/84. 2049 is when the register fills up and rolls over to 00000000..... If it's any consolation, human activities like project work schedules are impossible to plan in any but the vaguest of terms that far ahead of time anyway, so a final task with a note attached indicating it's true planned finish is as accurate as anything else you might do. I would be incredibly surprised if something planned today to happen on some date in 2049 actually ends up happening on the planned date plus or minus 5 years anyway. If you want the graphics of plans in those time horizons, Visio 2003 will do Gantt charts with at least a 75 year time horizon. I just tried an experiment, and it will create a Gantt chart and Timeline with a date range starting today and ending in 2085 if you set the major units to years and the minor units to months and that is certainly as granular a time frame as your project plans can really be over that long a time period. Since Project deals with detailed work schedules and specific activities at a level of detail that simply couldn't be known for something so far in the future, it seems pointless to use it today to try to schedule a hydro-gravitonic technician to show up at 10am on July 18th, 2052 with the tools required to install a river containment force field across Coyote Creek. <grin> Use Visio for your overall big-picture plan and to document the broad, long range, project phases and Project for detailed plans for the immediate and near future time horizon. A single task bar in the Visio plan might become hundreds of tasks in Project when it's moved over and you're close enough to the events to schedule them in detail. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Water Bill" <Water microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2005 07:58 PM PDT Regular work at the stanard rate is work performed on the resource's work calendar, the hours defined as his regular working hours. Overtime is work done at hours other than those defined in his calendar. But Project doesn't automatically apportion them. If someone's working time calendar says he works an 8 hour day and you schedule him for 10 hours, Project sees this as an 125% allocation and somehow your resource is magically able to do 10 hours of work in 8 hours of clock time. He's overallocated and you need to fix it. In that scenario Project only pays him for 8 hours. To schedule OT, as Mike said, you need to explicitly enter the number of hours of OT that are included in the total work figure - just saying that the resource is booked 125% doesn't do it. For example, lets say your regular calendar is 8-5, M-F Standard calendar. The calendar should ONLY list as work time those hours that are going to be at standard rate so even if people occaisionally work on Saturday it should be shown as non-working time in the calendar. You have a 6 day duration task starting Mon 8am with Wally assigned to it. The tasl will be scheduled to finish the following Monday at 5pm. But you're running a bit late in the overall plan and you need it done a little sooner. It still 48 hours of work, you can't change that and get everything done the task produces. So you go to Wally and ask him to do 8 hours of OT on the task. You enter that in the *schedule* by splitting the screen and in the bottom window entering 8h in the OT Work column of the Resource Work screen. Project does the following -- 48 hours of work is required, 8 of which will be OT. Duration is defined by the working time calendar, same as std pay. and OT work doesn't count in duration and so the duration become 48h-8h, or 40 hours/5 days. Task now shows finishing Fri 5pm, just the reason you'd ask for OT in the first place. Work is still 48 hours and the resource is allocated 100% (not 125%) because work outside the resources working time calendar doesn't count against his allocaton units either. Cost is 40h*StdRate + 8h*OtRate. Project will evenly distribute those hours over the task duration, about 1.45 hours per day because as far as Project's schedule and budget calculations are concerned it doesn't matter when those OT hours are worked, only that they ARE worked. When you actually do the work, you enter thehours per day the resource actually does in the usage view. If they're going to defer the OT until Saturday, just enter the 8 per day they're doing up till then. When you arrive at Fri it'll show you a day behind but posting the 8 for Saturday will make everything come out right. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "MikeB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Locking table definition (view) Posted: 17 Jun 2005 06:04 PM PDT If the file is corrupted there is not much you can do about it besides saving to another format (like the database format) and then reopening and saving as a .mpp file. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "wendyB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... with to creating with the table comments applying and the width, the 132 been |
| Inserting markers in timelines Posted: 17 Jun 2005 02:30 PM PDT A progress review is a task - it is a set of actions done by people and takes a measurable length of time to complete. One way to do it is to enter "Review Progress" as a recurring task scheduled every 3 or 6 months. Or you could enter them individually with Start No Earlier Than constraints to designate the dates on which they should start. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "lizardboy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| BCWS calculated for tasks starting after Status Date Posted: 17 Jun 2005 01:06 PM PDT It depends on the baseline start, not start. Is the start the same as baseline start for these tasks? -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "Pratta" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... dates June is date is |
| Best way to plan time spent on recurring tasks Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:21 AM PDT Hi Kesavan , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) Have you tried Insert/Recurring Task... ? This procedure is specially designed for meetings. 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 Kesavan wrote: |
| How do I report weeks worth of time at once? Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:10 AM PDT In article <com>, "sohara28" <microsoft.com> wrote: sahara28, Actually I suggested the Resource Usage View which is a built-in view (View/More Views) not a built-in report (although there are Reports that emulate the Usage view). So I guess I don't understand how you tried to, ". . . put 200 in the first task listed" because data cannot be entered into a report - reports are output only. The only plans that will succeed ARE those that have requirements established and agreed upon by everyone involved before the plan to fulfill those requirements is developed. It is not all that uncommon (although certainly not desirable) to start working on something before a formalized plan is developed. This often occurs with pre-contract effort. In that case, the plan still needs to take into account the tasks already completed and in particular the resources or funds already spent. I call those "actuals to date" and there are various ways to include them in a plan. One approach is the following. Declare a point in time where formal tracking of the plan started or will start (this might be an initial contract date or a formal Initial Baseline Review). Everything before that time is "actuals" (i.e. sunk cost) and everything after is the estimated plan to finish the project. In some cases it might simply be convenient to roll all project actuals into a single line in the plan and in other cases it might be of benefit to break down various pieces of the effort to date. The actuals could be entered into the Fixed Cost field or they could be shown by entering task information to achieve the desired real life scenario. For example, if Tom worked 200 hrs from 2/1/05 through 4/11/05 (note that 4/10/05 is a Sunday which is normally non-working), make the following entries (assuming the Project Start Date is 2/1/05): 1. Task Name (Also set the Task Type to Fixed Duration - Project/Task Information/Advanced tab) 2. Duration: 49 days (That will allow Project to calculate the correct Finish date given the Start date of 2/1/05. Note: the best way to establish a task Finish date is to enter the Start date, if it is something other than the Project Start Date, and then iterate the Duration to get the desired Finish date. This assumes calculation is set to automatic.) 3. Resource Names: Tom 4. Work: 200 hr 5. % Complete: 100% The Cost will be computed based on Tom's pay rate (Resource Sheet) and Tom will be shown at 51% utilization over that task duration. Hope this helps. John Project MVP |
| Can I merge project calendars? Link them See several projects at o Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:06 AM PDT Hi Skpinny , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 - Multiple Projects, 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 Skpinny wrote: |
| Web Access 2003: Tasks or Projects tab redirecting to Home Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:04 AM PDT Hi Bikram , If you have another question, 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 Bikram Sisodia wrote: |
| Help With Changing the Default Start Date Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:01 AM PDT Are you starting your new project using a template? If so, the start date designated when the template was saved will be the default. One way to make it easy to remember to change it to the actual projected start date is to turn on the checkbox "Prompt for project info on new projects" on the Tools, Options menu, General tab. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "MAB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| physical % complete does not roll up Posted: 17 Jun 2005 08:00 AM PDT Is that new in MSP 2003 that physical % complete does not roll up? I worked with MSP 2002 for a while and it did work then. I agree with you that the number would be difficult to interpret, but I don't think it would be totally meaningless. For example, if a company bills its customers monthly based on percent completion, physical % complete may be a better measure to use. As long as there is justification for the rollup (at the task level) and those task level entries are accurate, the rollup would be a valid number. This would probably be even a better project indicator that % Complete or % Work Complete, especailly if the project is ahead or behind the plan. "Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote: |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2005 05:00 PM PDT Hi Roland I think your problem is that you have set the gantt view somehow in the other projects when you were printing, or trying to print. I would open all the projects in the same window. You can do this a few ways, but suggest you open them all at once, using Window/ New Window. Then select all the projects and click OK. You will now see all the projects in the same window. This will enable you to debug the duration problem you have, and when you have finished , if you save them (I suggest to new names) when you open them the next time the gantt views will be OK. You can save the new file created (the project view) as a master project and this will enable you to sort out any problems at the individul project level. Regards.............Pratta |
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