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    - How to allocate resources of various availability at different time ? I'm working on a plan with a couple of resources available to my project at various % of time in different time. For example: 25% in July, 50% Aug, 25% in Sep, 100% in Oct-Dec. I can't use the "Assign Resource" window because it applies to the all task all the time. I tried to use the Resouces Avaiability within the Resouces Information diaglogue window (by double clicking the resouece name in the Resources Sheet) and set the "From" and "To" date with the corresponding % "Unit" available. It does not appear to be working because when I assign a 40 hrs tasks, it still uses 100% availability to calcuate the duration. Am I doing it at the correct place ? If not, can someone please show me how to set this resource to be available at different time of various % availability ? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67959
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    - Task Duration in Seconds? We are a manufacturer of high-speed assembly machinery. A key task in the design of a system is compiling a cycle time chart for the machine. Essentially this is a Project chart - however the task durations are in seconds or fractions of a second. Is there a way to use Project to accomplish this? Thanks. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67957
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    - auto left justify gantt bars? In the Gantt Chart view (Project 2002 std), is it possible to auto left justify the gantt bars when a task is selected? When jumping around in the tasks, I find myself always manually adjusting the view of the gantt bars so I can see the time line context. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67949
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    - Showing critical path I have read the discussion from 20-21 of April concerning critical path. How does one do to get the critical path shown all the way, if some tasks are summary tasks with subtasks the red line is broken. The "Tracking Gant" is fine with tasks without subtasks or tasks within a summary task. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67941
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    - Import to Project from Excel I want to export from Excel to Project in such a way as to append the Excel data to an existing project. Is this possible using the import/export mapping or some other means. Or is this a custom solution? Thanks. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67939
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    - PERT Analyis Error Message I am receiving the following error message when clicking on the PERT entry sheet toolbar button: "An error occurred in the COM Add-in named: PERT Analysis Error #: 1101" I restarted MS Project 2003 but receive the same error msg regardless of the project I am working with. Please let me know how to resolve this. Thanks! Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67935
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    - Look like a split, but not?? I am using MSP 2003. I just noticed that I have these dots in front some of the tasks. At first, I thought these are splits in the tasks, but I cannot move them back. Looking at them some more, they just look like dots in front of the tasks. Can someone tell me what these are and how to get rid of them? The tasks are scheduled far out in the future due to these "dots" and I can't bring them back. A one day task is taking 2 weeks to finish because it doesn't start until the dots finish - 1.9 weeks later!! Please help!! Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67934
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    - EPM2003 / Proj Pro: Summary Task The "Baseline Work" summary level field does not increment when a new task is added and the task work baselined. It appears the summary level "Baseline Work" only updates if you re-baseline the summary task, which is not acceptable since this resets the summary baseline start, finish, etc. fields. Is there a way to change the way the summary level rolls up the baseline work field (i.e. sums the task baseline work)? Thanks for your assistance. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67930
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    - 2 resources should be 1 Hi! In MSP 2003 I added some resources, for example Don Johnson and DJ. If I want to replace these two resources with, for example DoJo and add up their tasks, how can I do this? Kind regards, Gert-Jan Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67927
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    - Unhiding Columns I've seen the post from June 30th about hiding/unhiding columns but I was wondering if there was an easier way to do this. It seems you still have to know what your Field Name was in the hidden column AND you have to re-type the Title. I was expecting an easier way similar to what is used in Excel. Any other tricks? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67921
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    - view hidden drives in project 2003 I have looked at Knowledge Base Article 329738 that refers to an issue in Project 2000 regarding 'Hide these specified drives in My Computer' and 'Prevent access to drives from My Computer'. That is, these are restricted in a Group Policy but Project allows you to view them anyway. This issue seems to be present in Project 2003 as well. Has anyone experienced this problem using MS Windows 2000 server and Project 2003 and if so, how can I resolve this? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67917
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    - Viewer for Project Hi, I need of a viewer for MS Project in order to visualize my project plan also in an other PC that I use in my home. Could someone suggest something useful for this aim? Thanks in advance Regards Kekko Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67915
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    - Why levelling move start date ? Hello ! My problem is : I have 5 consolidated projects with just a resource allocated to them. There are several overallocations and when I try to use levelling there is a gap at the beginning of first task in first project. In other words..the start date of first project is transslated without any reasons. Anyone can help me ? Thanks Daniele Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67912
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    - MS Project 2002 Loading Completed: - added all of the tasks - added all dates/durations (included dependencies to some existing release dates) -added resources -assigned percentage of availability for each resource on each task - assigned overall percentage complete for each task Where I need help: - adding the actual work and ETCs without messing up everything else (dates, duration, original work estimate) Any advice? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67911
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    - Project 2003 after KB833633 Hi all I have followed Microsoft Knowledge base article 833633 "How to strengthen the security settings for the Local Machine zone in Internet Explorer" due to the recent security scares. Problem is, now when I try run Project 2003 it hangs, regardless of operating system. By resetting DWORD 1400 back to 0 in the Local Machine Zone, project works fine. DWORD 1400 is the ability to allow Active Scripting. My question is; what Active Scripting is used in Project 2003 starting up and is there a part of Project 2003 that can be uninstalled to prevent the problem. Thanks Kevin Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67909
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    - Printing Reports... Hi there The reports in Project 2003 are really useful - for example the "to-do lists" and the "who does what when reports" - which my project team like to receive... Many of my team work remotely and rather than printing hard copies I would like to export the reports to PDF... I can't work out if exporting is possible - Any ideas? Many thanks Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67906
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    - Changing resource units and levelling I want to change the resource units assigned on the resource sheet i.e. reduce from 100% to 50%. Then reflect this change in the tasks on the plan. Tasks are set to fixed unit and I'd expect the maximum allocation for the resource to change to 50% and the duration of the task to extend. Currently the duration stays the same and levelling returns errors. Is there a quick way to update tasks to reflect the change resource availability? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67903
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    - help. about email notification We set up project server 2003 on internet. Once the smtp service was up and port got opened, the server got attacked and congested with emails, and crashed soon. How could we use email notification function with the server on internet? Thanks a lot. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67891
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    - language Our copy of Project was purchased in South America and is a Spanish version. All of the rest of our office programs are English. Any ideas how to get project into English? And no, the obvious, using the language function, did not work, since it is a fully Spanish version. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67890
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    - Summary Progress bar In the Tracking Gantt view the Summary Bar has a field called Summary Progress that shows the Summary Task's progress as a date. I can only see this field, Summary Progress, by moving the cursor over the Summary Bar. How can I pull this date out of Project and add as a column heading? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67889
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    - Project server 2003 source code control Hi All, I am new to deployment of project server 2003, I want to know how can we manage code into source control? - Do we need to check in whole dir of MS Project server - Do we need to check in MS Share point dir? - How do we take back up of MS SQL server? Please help me. Thanks in advance. Raj Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67887
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    - % Complete and % Work Complete I have been told that % work Complete is the correct choice when setting up project schedules. However, I have been asked what the difference is and I am not comfortable that I've given the complete answer. Can anyone assist? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67885
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    - closed file still thinks it's in use Anyone ever tried to open a Project file and have the software give them a message that a file was in use, and tell them that the user editing the file was themself? I have had several instances lately where the file appears to be in use when I know it's not. Is there some setting I need to change, or is this a common fluke with MS Project 2000? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Rich Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67880
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    - Why can't I see my newly added task on PWA ? I am the Project 2003 Admin for our company and I just added a task to another PM's project, assigned a resource to this task, as well as published it. The task shows up in the Proejct 2003 Client version, but NOT on the server (PWA)- I have respublished it and still nothing? What am I doing wrong? THANKS! Jodi Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67870
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    - Project 2003 I have looked at Knowledge Base Article 329738 that refers to an issue in Project 2000 regarding 'Hide these specified drives in My Computer' and 'Prevent access to drives from My Computer'. That is, these are restricted in a Group Policy but Project allows you to view them anyway. This issue seems to be present in Project 2003 as well. Has anyone experienced this problem using MS Windows 2000 server and Project 2003 and if so, how can I resolve this? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67867
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    - Resource name-what does this mean [50%]? With using Microsoft Project. Does anyone know what this stands for [50%] in the Resource name. so for instance: secretary[50%] What does this mean?[50%] what does this do? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67861
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    - Resource name-what does this do? [50%]? With using Microsoft Project. Does anyone know what this stands for [50%] in the Resource name. so for instance: secretary[50%] What does this mean?[50%] what does this do? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67860
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    - Calculating both ends of a project I have a series of tasks that are date dependent. I would like to set dependencies so that if I set the start date of the first task, it would calculate everything in the middle and then the end date to the last task. However, if I set the end date to the last task, I would also like the same calculation to occur for all the middle tasks back to the first task. I tried doing this, but could not because the middle tasks can not be both a predecessor to the same task that it depends on. Is there anyway I can accomplish this? Thanks for the help. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67849
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    - How to prevent splits I am getting a lot of splits in my projects. Project seems to calculate the tasks and put splits in without my knowledge. I am sure there's a setting that I inadvertently set that allowed this behavior. Would somone tell me what I would need to do in order to stop Project from calculating and putting splits into the tasks without me knowning? Greatly appreciate the help. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67848
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    - How Does Project calculate I would like to know when and how Project does its calculations. My resources sometimes change the order of the tasks they're doing. Sometimes, a later task starts before the earlier task. When this occurs, I enter the percent complete into the later task. When I open up the project again, the end date seemed to have been recalculated based on the percent completed and the remaining duration. Unfortunately, when I try to repeat this to see how Project calculates, it doesn't. As if it only calculates when there's been some time passed since the last time the project was opened. I know that Project calculates when the acutal finish (or 100% complete) has been entered. But I am seeing that it sometime calculates on percentages as well. I would like to know when does it do this and how does it calculate, as well as, why sometimes and not others... Thannks in advance for any help... Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67847
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    - Project Compare Can someone point me to get more information on Project Compare? After I do the project compare, I would like find out what tasks has been moved from one resource to another. Unfortunately, when I filtered on the resource, it only shows me the tasks currently assigned to the resource, not the ones that have been unassigned. I would like to the full picture (history) of what happen to each task, but I can't seem to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67846
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    - Initials and Gantt Bars I am running MS Project 2000. The default gantt bar label for resource is "Resource Name". You can manually change any bar label; in particular, you can change the resource to "Resource Initial". Is there any way to do that for all bars either as a default condition or via some "apply to all" approach? The Gantt Wizard allows you to select custom text for bar labels, but Resource Initials is not one of the available selections. Thanks Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67844
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    - Setting Start and Finish Constraints Is there a way to have task tied both a start task and a separate finish task? This may sound strange, but there are many construction activities that fall into this category. Right now I can only see how to assign one constraint/task. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67840
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    - Custom Field Hello, I would like to add a column showing results of custom calculations such as: ([Real Work]-[Planned Work])* Planned Duration / Work I tried to create a custom field with a formula referring to existing fields but no calculation is being done. The new field only contains zero values. Is it possible to calculate such custom information using Ms Project? I need this information to present it in a report. Thanks for your reply. Isabelle Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67835
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    - MIIS project Is there someone as use MS project/Gantt chart onto MIIS project . Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67834
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    - MS Project on a PDA I have just bought a HP PDA with Microsoft Excel and word on it. Can I also install MS Project to use in conjunction with the full version of Project running on my desktop? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67828
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    - Using resource pools Hi, I've been experimenting with using resource pools, and am having some problems. I've got a database set up with some plans already there, and a resource pool. I've been trying to import an existing plan, and attach it to the pool, but when I do so I find that task durations change (generally getting shorter) I identified that this was partially down to different standard calendar definitions between the two files - the resource pool had a 7.5 hour day, and the plan had an 8 hour day. But having fixed that, the problem still happens Anybody have any other suggestions as to why the task durations change? Thanks Roger Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67827
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    - couple of rookie questions I am setting up my 1st ever project ... now I have tasks that will be done by more than two people, and I can't seem to find a way to split up the total time in the correct proportion. For example, Task 1 requires employee A to give 4 hours and employee B to give 8 for a total of 12. In the task lisT I put down 12 hrs and simply assigned A and B to it. Since A and B have different rates I need to assign the proportion of work. Secondly do you guys know of any good books I could read to get knowledge of MS Project REALLY FAST? This was a task that was dropped on me and it completely unrelated to everything I do, and of course, I have a deadline. Thx. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67813
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    - Office Update Does Office Update covers MS Project ? Thanks Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67812
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    - Office Update Does Office Update covers MS Project ? Thanks Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67811
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    - Hiding summary tasks after filtering I'm using filter that is build based on Incomplete tasks And start is less then XXX. How can I hide summary tasks that there tasks isn't fulfill those conditions. Thx, Guy. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67807
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    - upgrade to 03 from 98 already posted previously. modified question: What I meant was: I only have project 98. If I buy 2003 project, will it work and will it upgrade my project 98? I only have 98 on the computer--don't have any cd's or stuff, it's lost. Thanks SKC Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67795
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    - Staffing gaps between activities We have a large fixed-bid project we're staffing. Because it's fixed bid, we need to account for hours spent between activities. So if I'm on Activity1 from M - Th in Week 1 and Activity 2 runs W - F in Week 3, we need to account for F in Week 1, all of Week 2, and M - T in Week 3 as I will be on the project for numerous miscellaneous tasks. What's the best way to set this up in the project plan so that my time appears to be dedicated to the project for the entire duration, yet I'm still listed as a working resource on various activities, all without overloading my resource for the days when I'm working an activity/task? Thanks. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67793
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    - What is name of files providing Project VBA Help? Folks, The standard configuration of Project 2002 set by the IT dept of a current client did not include the VBA Help File which provides context-sentive "help" on Project's VBA and functions. Normally this is set in a selection in Project's setup program. They have developed a standardized install program that does not include this. They are unwilling to adjust this standard install program to include this file, and they are unwilling to provide access to the Project setup disk for those who need/want this file installed. (Apparently the thousands of people who have installed Project without this file haven't yet noticed). I can't spot the actual file which provides this functionality. Anyone know this file name, or where the installed file names are documented, or where this function library may be documented in another book or document? thanks, rms -- Hope this is useful to you. Let us know. rms Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67791
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    - Gantt chart disappeared This is very bizzare, but as I was working in one of my project plans in Gantt view the gantt charts disappeared along with all the date headings. Gone! If I bring up another plan the Gantt chart is there so it's not the software. Anyone ever see this happen and how do I get my Gantt chart back? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67788
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    - Can't view consolidated (sub) project task bars in overall calenda I have been creating consolidated projects where the parent project has several sub-projects inserted into the parent. I can obviously expand and view all project task that include sub-project tasks in the Gantt view. BUT...I can find no way to get the consolidated parent project calendar view to show the sub project task bars with the parent projects task bars that DO show in the calendar view. I can't believe this functionality would not exist for single AND consolidated projects. Anyone have a clue if this can be done? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67787
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    - This is only a test message - no content of value Please disregard this message. Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67784
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    - Task Assignments Hi I am using project xp trying to get to grips with the e- mailing options. I have set my project file for e-mail collaboration. I am running through the feature of Task assignments. I selected my task assigned my resource collaborate - publish - new and changed assignments selected to send only changed assignment modified the message text ok to send the mail the e-mail has been received by the correct resource with my modified text in as well as an attachment of mspj.mtm but i cannot open it as the le type os not recognised. In the project file i sent it from the task is showing that my task request has not been a response to the publish assignment message. Can anyone please advise on what to do next?? I appreciate your time - thanks very much Kerry. PS do you know whether the e-mail collaboration will work with lotus notes too?? Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67770
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    - Summary Fields not Re-calculating correctly. Is there ANY way to re-calculate the Summary tasks?!! They work at first, then after subseuqent changes are made, they quit summarizing. I know there are posts here about this issue, but surely there is a fix somewhere. I'm using MSP 2000, but the same issue arises in 2002. I've tried changing the rollup options, turning calculation to auto and manual and vice versa and no luck. This is a true show stopper for any kind of real functionality when using custom fields. Please advise or point me to a solution (SR Update? Macro? Setting?). Thank you!! Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67765
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    - Rollup Not Working on Cost or Number Custom Fields Is there ANY way to re-calculate the Summary tasks?!! They work at first, then after subseuqent changes are made, they quit summarizing. I know there are posts here about this issue, but surely there is a fix somewhere. I'm using MSP 2000, but the same issue arises in 2002. Please advise or point me to a solution (SR Update? Macro? Setting?). Thank you!! Luis Tag: Erroneous populating of actual hours in MS Project Tag: 67764

Is there a known bug w/MS Project that populates actual hours for prior and future periods automatically? These hours are typically in fractions - e.g. .03.

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