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- How do I start task A before tasks B & C
- Mark project plan as readonly
- resource available from dates
- Resource planning (hours need per week, per project)
- Timescale distortions
- Resources with multiple calendars
- How To Track Estimated Time but Create A Window Of Time to Do It
- Multiple resources on task need to be scheduled the same time
- Start / Finish Date Calculation Erros
- Time scaled Baseline does not roll up
- problems with work contours
- Links ignore logic
- Generic schedules
- Roll-up tasks by person?
- Inserting a Time Scale
- Critical Path through multiple Projects
- Updating hammock tasks
| How do I start task A before tasks B & C Posted: 14 Mar 2006 03:40 AM PST Hi, You must make B and C dependant on A (FS), and set A's constraint to As Late As Possible. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm "Julian Griffin" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... in any must A, I FF, until BOTH message predecessors. other list |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 05:38 PM PST Under File, Save as there is a Tools button in the top right corner. Click on it and select General Options Enter a write password. That way anyone can open it, but only someone with the password can save it. -- Rod Gill Project MVP Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more "GM" <com> wrote in message news:googlegroups.com... |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 05:34 PM PST Sorry, never seen this. When yoiu set Available To in the first lmine, Available From on the secind line becomes D+1, but the way you put it, never seen. Do not hesitate to send the file if you want me to look at it -- Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm "la0d0g" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... the 'available Am options |
| Resource planning (hours need per week, per project) Posted: 13 Mar 2006 02:07 PM PST In article <com>, Justin <microsoft.com> wrote: Justin, See below Leveling and contouring are two completely different things. In your initial post you mentioned something about a resource starting at x%, ramping up to y% and then back to x%. That contour might relate to either a "Bell" or "Turtle" shaped assignment profile. Contours can also be custom generated by directly massaging the Work field in one of the Usage views. Leveling on the other hand is a Project function wherein Project attempts to move the schedule around to eliminate overallocated resources. Tasks can be given a priority level to help the leveling algorithm know which tasks should not be moved and which can be moved. Leveling can be done on various timescales (e.g. day-to-day, week-to-week, etc.). The message you saw relates to Project detecting overallocation of a resource and therefore suggests that that resource should be leveled It sounds like you are confusing contour profiles with leveling. See the answer to question 1. John Project MVP |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 12:35 PM PST Jack, Thanks for your reply. I wish this was the case, that I had the wrong format, unfortunately I think I do. The dates work fine for the beginning of the timescale and then changes as you look to the end of the timescale. In addition, the timescale is correct until you print it out. That is to say, what you read on the screen is changed when you print it out. -- Thank you. "JackD" wrote: |
| Resources with multiple calendars Posted: 13 Mar 2006 12:28 PM PST Ah... That helps somewhat. I still can't convince Project that it needs to do something different with a task that uses a resources that has a different calendar than the project. Where do I go to find the answers to questions like this? It's very frustrating to try to use Project and have it do non-intuitive things to me. Jack |
| How To Track Estimated Time but Create A Window Of Time to Do It Posted: 13 Mar 2006 12:19 PM PST There are several ways one could handle your scenario. Duration, first of all, is the time that elapses between when work is first done on the task and when it is complete. It is NOT the "window" in which you might do the task. Duration is always a period of observable physical activity. In the case of your phone call, whenever you make that call you're not going to be doing anything else at the same time and you're not going to keep the other party on the phone for 2 days. You're going to make the call, talk for 30 minutes, and then you're done. That's a 30 minute duration task with you working on it 100%, doing .5 man-hours of work. If you have in hand all the information you need to carry out the conversation on Monday morning you could make the call as early as Monday 8am. You need to have done it sometime before the end of the day on Tuesday. My preferred way of handling that would be to show the call as a 30 minute duration task, perhaps with a Start No Earlier Than contraint of Monday 8am, and a finish Deadline of Tuesday 5pm. The only time I'd show it as a 2 day duration task would be if I intended to have it done in little bits and pieces spread out over the two days with the first little piece starting Monday at 8am and the last bit finishing Tuesday at 5pm. If the nature of the work was such that you could spread it out over two days, it started on Monday at 8am and you finished it Tuesday at 5pm, doing it so the work actually did spread out over the two days, it would be a 2 day duration (16 hours) task with 0.5 hours of work and you would be working on it at a rate of little over 3%. HTH -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Na Tanya" <Na microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Multiple resources on task need to be scheduled the same time Posted: 13 Mar 2006 11:38 AM PST Hi, First, do use leveling, it is nonsence to use a software and not use part of it. Leveling has an option (see below in the leveling window) "Leveling can adjust individual assignments on a task": check that off. The parameter also exists on task level: insert the column "Level Assignments" HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm "iSeriesTechie" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... per engineers resource even |
| Start / Finish Date Calculation Erros Posted: 13 Mar 2006 11:25 AM PST Sometime anomolies in start and end dates when moving files between computers can be traced to the hours per day settings on the Tools Options menu, Calendar page. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Jerry H." <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Time scaled Baseline does not roll up Posted: 13 Mar 2006 11:00 AM PST I'm using the latest version, Project Pro 2003 SP1 (11.1.2004.1707.15). This is isolated to just one project, other projects are copying the project summary task time scaled data appropriately to the Baseline time scaled data. For Rick, when I refer to time scaled data, I am referring to the right side of a Usage view. When I am referreing to table data, I am referring to the left side. The table view is reporting baseline correctely the time scaled view is not but only incorrectly at the project summary task. All other summary tasks are copied appropriately. Greg "Rod Gill" wrote: |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 10:12 AM PST If you want the result, better consider the solution :-)) -- Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm "Guy" <com> schreef in bericht news:googlegroups.com... |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 09:40 AM PST It's a good idea to have to option set to automatically recalculate rather than relying on F9 in the future. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Clare" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 09:23 AM PST Also, through Format, Timescale, you can show D1.... D50 as a timescale label. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm "KimC" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... Day |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 07:55 AM PST In article <com>, Ali <microsoft.com> wrote: Ali, I've never used the rollup macro but a quick look at the code shows it basically identifies rolled up tasks at the summary level (i.e. creates what I mentioned in the original response). Not what you want. And yes, from time to time in the newsgroup users have requested various ways to show multiple things on a single line. Most of them relate to showing more detail at the summary level, similar to the rollup macro. For your specific need, it must be done outside of Project. John |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 07:40 AM PST In article <com>, Michael <microsoft.com> wrote: Michael, Sounds like you're all set. John |
| Critical Path through multiple Projects Posted: 13 Mar 2006 07:21 AM PST In article <com>, BigFish311 <microsoft.com> wrote: BigFIsh311, It's been a long time since I worked with critical path in a consolidated master (way back to Project 4.x) but there is [generally] always a reason for Project showing what it does. I agree it would be much better to actually see your file and play with it a bit. I would be willing to do that if you don't mind sending it via e-mail although I may not be able to look at it for a several hours. If you want to send it, here is my address. If you decide to send it, please detail the area of question. John jensenj6atatcomcastdotdotnet remove obvious redundancies |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2006 07:07 AM PST No, Dale - you said the hammock runs for the duration of the project. The project summary task would seem to do exactly what you wanted. If you must have another hammock, you will have to enter Actual data like %Complete as I don't see how Project can determine this. It would seem to be possible to use vba to achieve this result: try the developer newsgroup if you want to do down this route. Mike Glen Project MVP Dale N wrote: |
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