| Quicker access to "More Views.." selections? Posted: 22 Feb 2006 06:42 AM PST To add a tool bar of views: View>View Bar
For the view to be visable in the tool bae you'll need to follow Jan's
suggestion first.
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| Week Ending not Week Begining? Posted: 22 Feb 2006 03:00 AM PST I am always confused when I see date ending weeks. But you might look at
Tools>Options>Calendar and chanege the Week Starts On. I've never changed
this from Sunday so good luck.
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| % Completed vs. % Estimated Posted: 21 Feb 2006 10:56 PM PST Absolutely, Rod. A more basic item that many Newbies shol dunderstand is the
dofference between % Complete and % Work Complete. In your explaination of
updating the Duration, versus updating the Work, the two different fields
will soon "go out of alignment" with one another. It confuses many people
when they don't understand that:
% Complete - tracks progress through the task's DURATION
% Work Complete - tracks progress toward completion of WORK
There is also a third field called "Physical % Complete". it is an
alternative field that can be used to calculate BCWP for EVM. The
description of this field and recommended use is clearly described in the PSm
2003 Help files.
--
RTucker, PMP
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| How do I create a time-phased budget in MS project? Posted: 21 Feb 2006 09:12 PM PST In article <com>,
corina <microsoft.com> wrote:
corina,
Some might say that the Baseline Cost field is the budget but it kind of
depends on how you view a "budget".
I suggest you set up your plan complete with resources. The original
estimated cost will be the Cost field and this would be treated as the
budget. When it is all set up, go to Tools/Tracking/Save Baseline and
save a baseline for the entire project. Project then captures all the
data in the Cost field and saves it in the Baseline Cost field so it can
be used for earned value calculations or any other comparative ysis.
Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP
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| Question mark in Task Duration Posted: 21 Feb 2006 05:21 PM PST In article <googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:
Cole,
You're welcome.
John
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| MS Project Standard Compatibility Posted: 21 Feb 2006 03:56 PM PST Thank you Rick
"Rick Roszko" wrote:
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| Why does an 8 hour day start on 1 day and finish on the next? Posted: 21 Feb 2006 12:11 PM PST Thanks for the reply. I figured out what I was doing wrong. It has to do
with some people working an 8 hour day and some people working a 6.4 hour day
on the same calendar. I just messed up the time allocation so that it always
seemed to just be over 1.00 days of work.
Thanks anyway.
Roadrawts
"Gilgamesh" wrote:
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| setting up cost per hour Posted: 21 Feb 2006 12:07 PM PST Thanks for you feed back. I added the column like you said. I'm not really
sure what the deference is between work, actual work is. I guess work is how
much I have and actual work is how much can be done?. I'm still not clear on
setting up cost for work being done.
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| resources instead of tasks Posted: 21 Feb 2006 10:39 AM PST Hi,
Will the Resource sheet view not give you what you are looking for? This
view groups tasks by resource and shows the hours being worked on each task
each day.
Hope this helps
Regards
DavidC
"kotoman" wrote:
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| Using Project for manufacturing Posted: 21 Feb 2006 09:29 AM PST The great advantage Project has for Custom manufacturers is distributed (web kiosk)
task sheets and status updates in the Server version. Many full scale Manufacturing ERP systems
don't even include this, while some can achieve it via bar scanning as a data colection point. Custom often
means a whole lot of unknows (and worse cowboys running through your plant playing hero to keep their customers happy,
and everybody else) so if you can find out the reality of your present situation you can make good scheduling
decisions with bottom line company wide impact of those decisions.
An offshoot of capturing the ebb and flow of work on the shop floor is that with a simple coding system, any cost
evaluation is a data query away. This can blend with existing process/material/production/sales systems already in place.
Job A had 5 hours framing-2 hours finishing-1 hour packing. This is a simple audit after the production of Job A has been completed.
This then becomes your actual hours vs. quoted hours(revenue or operational)....mix that with the materials per Job A and voila,
done.
All enabled by real time recording of actuals from the shop floor on
task completion,
task change,
end of shift.
The closer you can get to real time status the more accurate and better performance the shop will have
because true limits to production are easy to spot. This discipline lets cost calculations be a non issue.
Just go use the information you had to gather anyway in order to time the events of transforming "materials and work" into
"product:"
So Project does the same thing as Project server, you would just need a way to record the actual status of the shop floor
and get it into the files. (Clipboard and running shoes come to mind).
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| Is there a Wizard in Project 2000 that reviews the schedule Posted: 21 Feb 2006 08:20 AM PST Hawnp --
I believe the QuantumPM Schedule Auditor is the tool you are describing:
http://www.quantumpm.com/qsa.aspx
Hope this helps.
--
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Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
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| Schedule Template w/ Customized Sub Menu's Posted: 21 Feb 2006 08:00 AM PST Which option would you like me to comment on?
I have experience with all of them.
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http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
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| How do I outdent tasks that are indented (Project 2003) Posted: 21 Feb 2006 02:41 AM PST Moderator,
please close/delete this thread since it a duplicate.
Thanks.
Kav.
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| Duration of task & subtask, assigned to resources % of their time Posted: 20 Feb 2006 09:29 PM PST A project produces a specific output. The duration of a project (and the
tasks within it) is whatever time it takes to produce that output. The more
resources you have and the harder they work, the less time it will take to
produce that output with the rare exception of physical processes that take
a specific time, like the time it takes concrete to harden. The planning
process is one intended to help you get the required output completed in the
shortest time and lowest consistent with the quality objectives you need to
achieve.
Notice that my focus here is on the output. You don't start with a defined
block of time - 3rd quarter of 06, for example - and then fill it up with
activity. Instead you start with the knowledge that you have to generate a
marketing plan that involves shooting 6 30-second TV commecials, placing
weekely ads in 15 national magazines, and hosting a customer appreciation
conference in the Bahamas. When you sit down with project, you're seeking
to answer the question "If I start the whole process next next Monday, when
should I tell the production company to start shooting the 4th ad in the
series, when should I schedule the meeting with the ad agency to finalize
selecting the photos for the print campaign, and what dates do we need to
reserve at the hotel in the Bahamas?" When you input what is essentially
the flow chart of the process of the campaign along with your estimates of
how much work each step of the process will require, MS Project calculates
those dates for you. Note that the purpose is not to doent dates that
are predetermined. Rather it is to compute dates that are NOT yet known.
You have certain targets that are known, true enough, but Project's job is
not to list the targets, it's to help you figure what concrete steps you
must take to achieve those targets.
HTH
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs
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| How to retrive Calendar variantions from Microsoft Project Posted: 20 Feb 2006 04:57 PM PST Thank You John for acting on it so quick.
sorry for the insufficient information.
i am taking to the Microsoft objects using its disinterfaces. or
fvMSApplication := CreateOleObject('MSproject.Application');
ie. i am not getting data from database or xml.
My application has the similar objects as in the microsoft project. I
am populate my objects properties with Microsoft Project Objects
properties.
The application is really fast when i am getting project, task,
resource objects and its properties. but when it comes to the Calendar
object to get Variations to it i have to go thought loop which checks
if the day is different than the regular wroking calendar hours:
the loop is something like this:
LIDiff:=
DaysBetween(LMicrosoftProjectStartDate,LMicrosoftP rojectStopDate);
for Ly:= 0 to LIDiff+1 do
begin
LDate:= LStartDate;
LDayOfTheWeek:= DayOfTheWeek(LDate);
DecodeDate(LDate,LStartOfYear,LStartOfMonth,LStart Ofday);
LvDay:=
LvMicrosoftCalendar.Years[LStartOfYear].Months[LStartOfMonth].Days[LStartOfday];
{--Add Holidays--}
AddVariationIfMSDayIsHoliday(LvDay,LDayOfTheWeek,L Date); //This
function checks if the day is working or not
{--Add Exceptinal Working Days--}
AddVariationIfMSDayIception(LvDay,LDayOfTheWeek ,LDate); // This
function checks if the wroking day has differnt shift timings
LStartDate:= LStartDate + 1; //increment Date
end;
And to get working time information i am getting it by accessing
Microsoft SHIFT object from the Microsoft Day object.
Although this loop works but it takes tremendous amout of time as
every resorce also has calendar variations or exceptions and i need to
get them as well.
Thank again for your time.
I am only a junior programmes so in case if i have described something
wrong please let me know.
Thanks.
Gaurav
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| Printing Gantt on Multiple Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2006 12:45 PM PST I don't think this is possible, sorry.
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