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- how can you create a dependency on a future task?
- how to set Title same as Project name
- Circular reference problem!
- Can a task be identified as non-critical?
- Conditonally formatting tasks
- How do i calculate the difference between start and end dates?
- Can I print out a Gantt chart only? (excluding the Gantt table)
- how I can not show duration, start and finish in task
- How calculate Percentage of Work Scheduled
- Resource allocations based on availability
- where is the physical .mpp file stored on saving offine in MS Proj
- OT - Google Group support
- Row height will not change.
- Report Estimated times - versus made real Hours
- Update as Scheduled button inserts an incorrect 100%
- project tracking
- Multiple tasks for multiple units?
- Resource Pool Links
- Tasks rolled up under summary tasks.
- adding resources without Windows accounts
- Actual dates change when calendar changes or status date changes.
- fixing parameters
- Can a Project Standard file be imported into Project Professional
- Alternatives to MS project
- Import MS Project tasks to Outlook task list
| how can you create a dependency on a future task? Posted: 11 Aug 2005 07:19 AM PDT i tried doing that but got a message about a circular task relationship - i will play around a bit more - this is my first real experience with project and i am learning as i go - thanks for your help -- darci "Sarah" wrote: |
| how to set Title same as Project name Posted: 11 Aug 2005 05:16 AM PDT See me previous post. You need to change the name in File>Properties. |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2005 01:01 AM PDT You're welcome, Herbgarden :-) Mike Glen MS Project MVP Herbgarden wrote: |
| Can a task be identified as non-critical? Posted: 10 Aug 2005 12:58 PM PDT How is it possible for any task ever to extend beyond the project end date? The project end is when all of the work in the project has been completed. If any work is left to do, the project is not done yet. If a task is in the project, it represents work that is part of the project. A project is never considered ended until all of the work on all of the tasks is completed. Ergo, it is impossible for a task to ever extend beyond the project finish date since such a delay pushes back the finish date accordingly. It is true that tasks might take place after a project's required finish deadline but that's something else entirely - that's a project that is finishing late. But the project end date and the project's finish deadline date are two different things. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Kevin F." <Kevin microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2005 10:51 AM PDT Basically, I don't understand the syntax of VB. My department column is Outline1, though I guess I can switch that to Text1 if that makes things any easier. I know that I want to do this much: Case "Accounting" SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False Font Color:=pjMaroon Case "Customer Service" SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False Font Color:=pjNavy Case "Manufacturing" SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False Font Color:=pjPurple Case "Shipping" SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False Font Color:=pjOlive Case "Recievng" SelectRow Row:=tskT.ID, RowRelative:=False Font Color:=pjTeal The problem is I don't understand how to use the beginning stuff (e.g. "For Each tskT In ActiveProject.Tasks") to make the script run without returning errors. Thanks again for the feedback. |
| How do i calculate the difference between start and end dates? Posted: 10 Aug 2005 10:33 AM PDT In article <com>, Dennis Meyer <microsoft.com> wrote: Dennis, You're welcome. John |
| Can I print out a Gantt chart only? (excluding the Gantt table) Posted: 10 Aug 2005 07:20 AM PDT Thanks Jan- I'd tried everything but that! "Jan De Messemaeker" wrote: |
| how I can not show duration, start and finish in task Posted: 10 Aug 2005 06:51 AM PDT You can't leave them blank but that doesn't mean you have to pay any attention to them. You shouldn't be entering dates in the start and finish columns anyway so that shouldn't be an issue - those fields are intended to be calculated for you except in certain relatively rare situations. The leaves the duration field - just leave it at the default "1?" entry, the question mark indicating that no duration estimate has been entered. After you have completed the list of tasks and perhaps even after setting up the dependency links between them, you can come back and enter the durations. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Mayoli R." <Mayoli microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| How calculate Percentage of Work Scheduled Posted: 10 Aug 2005 05:56 AM PDT In article <phx.gbl>, "Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote: Steve, Where in the world are you able to find a plumber at $20/hr (at least one who knows his bonnet from his escutcheon)? John |
| Resource allocations based on availability Posted: 10 Aug 2005 02:15 AM PDT Your statement "available for specific hours within a specific time frame" is a clue how to proceed. The maximum availability percent is NOT a measure of the number of hours during the day the resource is available. IF a resource's maximum availability is 50% is does NOT mean he's available 4 hours per day. It means that when he's assigned to a task for 1 day, he's going to be doing other thangs as well and so only gets accomplished what COULD have been done in 4 hours if he wasn't distracted. But from the project schedule perspective, he's working on that task for 8 hours, not 4. In order to show he can only work on the project 4 hours a day, you need to modify his calendar so it shows 4 hours per day as thye work hours, not 8, using those specific hours he can work on your project. You have him in the morning and he's doing something else non-project related during the afternoon for example. Here's the difference in how such scenarios are handled. You have a task starting Monday at 8 am and you have estimated it will take 1 day. You assign Joe Resource to it at 50% because that's his maximum. You'll find the task starts Mon 8am, ends Mon 5pm, and generates 4 man-hours of work output. OTOH, you assign Bill Resource to it. Bill's calendar shows his hours of work are 8-12 only. You assign him to the task 100%. The task now starts Mon 8am, end Tue 12noon, and generates 8 man-hours of work output. If you look at the usage view for each assignment with a time frame expanded out to show hour-level detail, with Joe's assignment you'll see he's scheduled to be working 1/2 hour out of each hour through the full work day. If you look at Bill's, he's scheduled to work 1 hour for each morning hour but nothing during the afternoons. So you need to decide, which model is the most accurate description of your particular scenario? -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Resource" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| where is the physical .mpp file stored on saving offine in MS Proj Posted: 10 Aug 2005 01:51 AM PDT planetreddy -- Please ask this question in the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as your question is specifically a Server question. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com http://www.projectserverexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "planetreddy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2005 07:18 AM PDT JackD wrote: Thanks, Jack! Didn't occur to me until after I'd posted that there might be something wrong on Google's end. I always think I must have done or be doing something wrong! But it makes sense. My groups came back later in the day. |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2005 04:16 AM PDT I just managed to fix it. I ran the Gant Wizard and this seems to have fixed the problem, however I have lost the changes I made to the colour of the bars - more work! -- Kind Regards John. "davegb" wrote: |
| Report Estimated times - versus made real Hours Posted: 09 Aug 2005 03:44 AM PDT Thanks Rod "Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> escribió en el mensaje news:phx.gbl... |
| Update as Scheduled button inserts an incorrect 100% Posted: 09 Aug 2005 01:46 AM PDT I was only giving an example and the length of the task doesn't affect it. Are you sure you hit the "update as scheduled" and not one of the other specific percentage complete buttons by accident? How about the time scale of the Gantt timeline - what was it set to? The only time I've seen anything like what you describe is it does round up to show progress through the end of whatever unit includes the current date. So if today was Wednesday and the timeline was set to show "weeks" as its granularity, the "update as scheduled" would should progress through the end of the current week, jumping the gun by a couple of days. Could that account for what you're seeing? Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs --------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:30:03 -0700, Jim Trickett <microsoft.com> wrote: |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:09 PM PDT cameron wrote: Don't know of any way to do that in Project. You might try doing it in Excel. |
| Multiple tasks for multiple units? Posted: 08 Aug 2005 02:27 PM PDT Thanks for your help. I'm a Project newbie and just wasn't quite sure how I was going to lay out this very large schedule. --sf "davegb" wrote: |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2005 01:23 PM PDT Thanks Brian. I will give this a shot. "Brian K - Project MVP" wrote: |
| Tasks rolled up under summary tasks. Posted: 08 Aug 2005 01:21 PM PDT Right click on the column header. Choose "Customize fields" In the dialog box that shows up check the settings for "Calculation for task and group summary rows". If it is not set to "use formula" then that is your problem. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "schemr" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... the task and that if 3 or light, you. |
| adding resources without Windows accounts Posted: 08 Aug 2005 12:00 PM PDT Dale, That was excellent. I tried it and it worked perfectly. Thanks very much. I was trying to add to PS before adding to the enterprise resource pool. "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Actual dates change when calendar changes or status date changes. Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:52 AM PDT You are most welcome Scott. Glad to know you found the solution! Julie "Scott27" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2005 04:09 AM PDT Hi, By fixing the task type you can define how Project will react to changes in Work, Duration, or Assignment Units (which one of the three is modified when any of the three is changed by the user). HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "sekweles" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... |
| Can a Project Standard file be imported into Project Professional Posted: 07 Aug 2005 10:39 AM PDT Ira -- Yes, Project Server 2003 needs SQL Server installed as all of the enter project and enterprise resource data is stored in a SQL Server database. In the future, if you have questions specifically related to Project Server, you might consider asking them in the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup which is totally devoted to Project Server 2002 and 2003 questions. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com http://www.projectserverexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "Ira Smith" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2005 06:25 PM PDT Your post did help as it gave me things to think about. Being a new user to Project, at this time I do not think I'll attempt to utilize the potential Access data store feature. While I understand it might be nice, it would also limit me in some ways for which I do not want to be limited yet. Just knowing that large files are a problem helps me inmy world. That gives me the knowledge ahead of time to just keep my files relatively small and not attempt a whopper of a project plan that is supposed to cover the full life span of a specific product from inception and all of its lifetime changes. I'll just keep the files small and focused on specific phases and in doing so should avoid the bigger issues of extremely large file sizes, etc. Thanks, Ira "davegb" wrote: |
| Import MS Project tasks to Outlook task list Posted: 06 Aug 2005 02:30 AM PDT You could convince the PM to try the 3rdparty app tasklynx (99$s). it synchronizes project & outlook tasks. i cant speak to its robustness, features or mis-features because i havent tried it but it seems to be the way to do what you want without project server and without trying to roll your own macros. . |
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