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    - Projsect Upgrade I recently upgraded my computer and when the IT department copied over all the files, they failed to load my Project. As such, when I bought the upgrade for 2007, the program couldn't find a "qualifying" product. So I found my original copy of Project (Version 4.0), installed it, then tried to upgrade with Version 2002 with the intention to then install the upgrade for 2007. 4.0 installed successfully, but 2002 stalls during the upgrade process giving me the "qualifying product not found error message." I can open the 4.0 version just fine and I am puzzled as to why the 2002 version can't find the files. Can anyone help? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125525
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    - WBS; Task Description Sheets I like to have detailed task descriptions for each WBS item that I give to my team to fully describe the deliverable, prerequisites, expected deliverable, required resources, acceptance criteria etc. I usually create these in Word but its a real pain if I adjust the MS Project file that renumbers the WBS. Is there a tool anywhere that can link into project - 2003 or 2007 - that then has the ability to create "intergrated" task description sheets that are dynamically linked to the project schedule?? -- Skutr, PMP, Australia Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125521
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    - How to turn off constraint updates I would like to turn off the constraint setting. I am entering schedule dates from many outside sources and sometimes I have to enter the start and end dates provided to me. When I enter the finish date it sets a Finish No Later Than constraint. When I have to change dates, it often will not accept the dates I type in due to the constraint type and date. Is there anyway to just turn this feature off while I am entering the schedule data? -- Sandy M. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125505
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    - Re: Project Server 2007 Connectivity Hi, We have Project Server 2007 installed on Windows 20003 SP2 Standard Edition server in a stand alone mode. Now, we have few clients with project professional 2007 installed on their desktops. We are trying to synchronize Active Directory Server so all users in-house can use project server 2007. The synchronization does not seem to work, when we try to connect from the client to the server it fails and says wrong username password eventhough the username passwords are given right. Can you please tell me if the AD Synchronization has some special steps?? or do I need to configure the server in some special manner? Thanks, Chirag Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125500
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    - Importing Timesheets into Project Server 2007 I am having a problem getting the timesheets to update the tasks on the project. When trying to import the timesheets no data is available. I know that the timesheets have been approved but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125496
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    - Assignment Custom Field I can't seem to find out how to view a custom assignment field such as text1. In the Office Onlie Help, it says: "Assignment fields can be displayed in the sheet portion of the Task Usage and Resource Usage views and at the bottom of the Task Form and Resource Form." I haven't been able to insert an assignment text1 field in any of these places. I'm not sure what is meant by the "sheet portion of the Task Usage". I'm using MS Project 2003 Professional. -- Johnny Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125495
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    - Printing a very big project We have a file that is about 5 MB and about 3200 lines. we cannot preview it nor we can print it. I have tried to just print 5 sheets or even 2 sheets at a time, it gives me out of memory error. Any ideas or suggestion would highly be appreciated. I am not an expert at all. I am IT guy who is trying to help someone who is just learning Project. Is there a way to break it down to smaller chunks and still link tasks from one project to another? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125490
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    - Accounting software Which accounting software is most compatible with MS Project, in terms of importing and exporting information? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125487
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    - Training books Our office is fairly new to MS Project and looking to learn more about its features and functions. Any advice on training books that would be helpful? Thanks, -- R Jansen Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125485
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    - Customized field formula's I'm wanting to find a way to set a formula under function to allow the programme to show 3 different coloured indicators to represent RED for critical (total slack 0), GREEN for non-critical (total slack between 1-5) and YELLOW between 5 & greater within the programme so I can progressively monitor the float within the detailed Ganett view? Any help with the formula would be greatly appreciated -- Craig Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125469
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    - Office Project Proffesional I have downloaded the trial version of project professional 2007 which is saved with img extension. Can anyone help me how to install the same . Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125468
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    - Printing Project Calendar to Display all tasks for each day Is there a way to format the printing of a calendar so that all tasks for each day are displayed? Currently, I'm unable to do this because there are too many tasks to fit in the box for a given calendar day. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125465
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    - Resource Availability not behaving as (I at least) expected I have a fixed work task of 80 hours. Assigned one person at 100% so the duration is 2 weeks. Assigned a second person at 100% so duration moves to 1 week. Perfect. Used Resource Availability to set up a second person with 0% availability for the first week and 100% availability for the second week. Inserted a second 80 hour fixed work task that starts after the second person has 100% availability. Assigned both resources, duration is 1 week. Perfect. HOWEVER, if I assign the second person to the first task so that availability starts in the middle of the 2 week task duration, MS Project assigns at 0% for the entire 2 week task. I expected that the person would be assigned at 0% for the first week and 100% for the second week when they become available at 100%, thereby reducing the duration from 2 weeks to 1.5 weeks. What am I missing? -- Keith Loewen, MBA, PMP Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125464
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    - Installing Project 2007 with 2003 I have two courses being taught on separate versions. I have deployed the other office apps in parallel. Except for a slight hic-up with Access configurations, this all seems to be functional. Unfortunately, when I added Project 2007, it breaks Project 2003. The app will launch, but will not save project files: An unexpected error occurred during command execution. Try the following: Verify that all argument names and values are correct and are of the correct type. You may have run out of memory. To free up..... Any ideas on what we need to do to get Project 2003 working? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125453
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    - Budget Resource I'm attempting for the 1st time to create a budget for my project. According the the Help\Microsoft Project Help\Create A Budget for Your Project, I need to create budget resources first. My questions is, if I have a budget resource named Budget-Sub, what should the resource type be? I'm thinking it should be cost....am I correct? If there are any good articles out there pertaining to budgets with MS Project please point me in that direction. Thanks JR Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125452
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    - Question for Rod Gill Rod, I bought the VBA book. I love it. I have a question. I want to run a to do list report. I recorded the macro to run this and the returning code was meager- one line only(ReportPrintPreview Name:="To Do List"). What I want to do is get at the formatting options offered in the report dialog box. I want to define all the Definition fields, including the table and filter. How do I get at these options? Is it easier to apply the table and filter before I run the report? Thanks for all of the help, both offline and online. Troy Lee Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125451
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    - one task, many students and teachers I'm still new to project, and I'm having trouble with this. Basically, I have a task, I'll call it a "lesson." This lesson has many students (say 20) and many teachers (1 teacher for every 2 students.) I basically want to tell Project "I have 20 students that will need teachers (1 for every 2 students) for this task." Is there a way to do this? I know the number of teachers I have and the number of students, but I want to see if any teachers will be overallocated once many lessons requiring teachers are taught in parallel. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125449
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    - Not able to connect with project server Hi All, I have setup project server and SharePoint server. I am trying to make connection using office project professional, but I can't. I am getting the error that "Login failed. Project could not connect to the server. Please check username and password and try again". I tried different username and password but it's not working. It is working properly on http. I also tried to make different Project Server Account with different URL, but no luck. I also configured my project server 3 times. Now I am helpless. I really appreciate your help and suggestions. Thanks, Mrugesh Chandarana mchandarana@agiliance.com Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125446
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    - Macro error: trying to automatically wrap text I tried to run a macro provided by a user named Bob to automatically wrap text in the task name fields. The macro code I'm trying to run is below. When I try to run it, I get the following run-time error message: Run-time error '1101': The argument value is not valid. The line of code that is highlighted as the error is: SetRowHeight unit:=1, Rows:=Str(T.UniqueID), useuniqueid:=True What should I do to fix this? Thanks for any help! Sub Auto_wordwrap() TxtLim = 35 For Each T In ActiveProject.Tasks If Not T Is Nothing Then SetRowHeight unit:=1, Rows:=Str(T.UniqueID), useuniqueid:=True Select Case Len(T.Name) Case TxtLim To TxtLim * 2 SetRowHeight unit:=2, Rows:=Str(T.UniqueID), useuniqueid:=True Case TxtLim * 2 + 1 To TxtLim * 3 SetRowHeight unit:=3, Rows:=Str(T.UniqueID), useuniqueid:=True Case TxtLim * 3 + 1 To TxtLim * 4 SetRowHeight unit:=4, Rows:=Str(T.UniqueID), useuniqueid:=True Case Is > TxtLim * 4 SetRowHeight unit:=5, Rows:=Str(T.UniqueID), useuniqueid:=True End Select End If Next T End Sub Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125443
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    - Which version to purchase? I did a search of the discussions, but still am not clear. We have three people that will need to use Project, but not concurrently. Can I purchase 3 licenses for the standard edition, save the project file on the server, and have others access that data (like putting a word doc on the server and having other users open it)? Or will I need to purchase professional and server to do this? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125438
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    - Adding up work for predecessors I can select a task an either use Split or Task Information --> Precedecessors to see all the predecessors for the task. Does anyone know how to add up all the values for work of the predecessors to see that total amount of work for the item and all its predecessors. Using summary task is not an option because I am using summary task to represent component areas that get summed, but the critical path spans component areas. Thanks, jason Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125434
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    - sharing Project I am the IT person for a small business. I am only generally familiar with MS Projbect. My boss has been researching Project and asked me a question about sharing the application. He wants to have 4 users both within and without the company collaborate on a project. However, he wanted to know if he bought 1 copy of Project and it would allow this. I told him I wasn't too sure about how to answer him. I said that it probably wouldn't work but would do more research. So I guess the question is: what is needed to allow several users to collaborate on a project using Microsoft Project, and some of those users are outside of the company? Are there any strategies to allow this? PS--we use Microsoft Small Business Server in our company Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125432
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    - Project2007 and Analysis Services. HELP! Greetings to all. I install Microsoft Project Server 2007 Trial version on the same computer on which works Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standart with SP2 and SharePoint. I also installed SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and all that needed. The (OLAP) cube create fine, but one thing does not work. When I on the Quick Launch, click Server Settings. On the Server Settings page, click Manage Views. A list of views will appear. Click New View. In the Name and Type section, in the View Type list, select the type `Data Analysis` and have error : "It was not possible to be connected to server Analysis Services. Check up correctness of a name of a server and repeat attempt." What is it? Why I cannot be connected? HELP please. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125429
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    - Insert MS project into MS Word Hi, I have created a Gantt Chart in MS Project.. May I know how can I insert it into my MS Word file? I have try to add an Object in MS Word, but that cretes a new Gantt chart for me, which i don't want. Thanks in advance. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125428
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    - Gantt Chart data question I have a MS Project 2003 file whose Gantt Chart shows the name of the resource and the % of time that resource will work on a task. It looks great. However, I would like the gantt chart to show the number of hours the resource will work on that task instead of the precent of time assigned. I dont see an option for that in the Gantt Chart Wizard. Is there a way to make it happen? Thanks in advance for the help and have a great day. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125417
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    - Levelling resources I have two partially overlapping activities with the same resources assigned. What I'd like to do is to make activity start date have priority over resource allocation so that when I level resources the activities still start on the same date, but a resource's time is divided by the two activities. I.e. Act. 1 sept. 1. - oct. 1. and act. 2 sept. 15 - oct. 15., resource X assigned to both. The result I want is that X is assigned 100% to act. 1 from sept. 1. to sept 14., then 50% on each activity from sept. 15. to oct. 1., and then 100% to act. 2 from oct. 2. to oct. 15. Is this possible to achieve? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125416
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    - How does PM see his employee task How does in PWA, the PM could see his employee's task? For example : when the resource note a comment when he submitting task. Could the PM see that notes? From where? Thank you. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125409
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    - Effort driven scheduling Hi, I have a basic project plan for a project that I am working on- the only resource allocated is myself. I have added timescales indicative of 'effort' rather than 'elapsed' time. I now want to add myself as a resource, but show 70% utilisation to reflect my time dedicated (as effort) to the project. However, when I add myself as a resource on the top line of the project, the end date of the project remains the same- I expected it to be slightly later, reflecting my 70% productivity rate....any ideas?? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125406
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    - Publish link in MS Project 2007 is disabled Hi I have installed MS Project 2007. Created a project , baselined it and saved . When I try to select Publish menu fro mthe File menu, I notice that it is disabled. Can anyone help on this. Thanks Mercy Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125405
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    - change working time Hi, im Yogi. i would like to ask about change working time in Project Profesional 2007. I have created Project in Project Pro then i publish. In the next day... i open that project in project pro and i want to set my employee working times. I go to tools -> change working time. but i couldn't write anything in exceptions fields. I really sure that i have logged in as Project amnager and im sure that i have administrator priviledge in Project server. Then i tried to work offline. I saved my project as mpp file in local storage. Then i open that file, i go to tools -> change working time. Now i can read in the exceptions field. My question is : It is necessary to create the project as Mpp file and working offline to change woriking time? Could someone explain this? thank you... Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125403
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    - MS Project integration with Excel and Access I would like to know if there are any good books and training classes on the integration of MS Project with other office products like MS Excel, and MS Access. I would prefer a book first, to study at my own pace, and afterwards, perhaps a class. For example, I may want to manage my project using MS Project, but may want to analyze or group tasks, people (reources), etc, using Pivot charts in Excel. I found a book that is focused on Excel integration with MS Access. Perhaps there is a book for MS Project integration with Excel and Access. I'm on travel using the hotel's computer. My e-mail at home is obe_mike@msn.com. Thanks for your help! Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125400
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    - File Properties Summary Title - association with file name Hi, MS Project 2003 - what is the relationship between the file name (myproject.mpp) and the 'File\Properties\Summary\Title' line? (text entry of project descriptor/title) I've seen two situations occur. 1. The file name is imported into this title and when edited, saved, closed, reopened, it reverts to the file name. 2. The summary\title can be entered and everything is fine. Consolidation process: When linking or inserting files, depending on the scenario above, either 1. the filename is seen as the rolled up first line of the project or 2. the required summary\title information is seen as the rolled up first line of the project I've looked under the Options for settings here but cannot find any reference. The only solution to the above problem is to remove anything in the Summary\Title panel and save, then reopen, edit the Summary\Title panel and save. When reopened, the link to the filename disappears. What gives? Regards Roger Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125395
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    - Who Does What - One more piece of info The "Who Does What" report is perfect for what I need except for one crucial piece of info. All of our tasks are a subtask of a larger portion of the project. Lisitng the individual tasks without the context of the parent "task category" leaves some odd sounding tasks. Is there a way to include the parent tasks for the individual task so that the resource has the entire context? Example: I have an "Engineering Tasks" section of tasks. Say I have tasks 1. Complete code 1. 2. Complete code 2 etc. When I run the report the assignment only says: Complete Code 1 <DETAILS DETAILS>. I want it to be formatted like this: Engineering Tasks - Complete Code 1 <DETAILS DETAILS> or Engineering Tasks Complete Code 1 <DETAILS DETAILS> etc. I can provide additional detail if needed. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125394
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    - MS Project 2003 Web Access working with IE7 and how to fix it ? Does anyone know if MS Project Web Access works with IE7 and how to fix the error, I am getting the following error ? The Controls for Project Web Access could not be donwloaded correctly. Please check your sercurity settings in IE or contact system administrator ? Thanks Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125390
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    - Automatic Notification of task changes Using: MS Project 2002 without MS Project Server Background: I'm working on a very large project. Currently, we have a certain group of individuals who collect updates. Those updates are then fed to two people who are the only ones allowed to update the project plan. We currently do this via "live" meetings but are considering switching to email updates. This has brought up the concern of how do we know that our updates have been made? I've done some research on how to ensure that updates notifications are sent out automatically. The information I found was geared towards notifying the resources for a task, however. Those of us who are gathering the data and feeding the updaters aren't listed as resources for our tasks, and it would be cumbersome to add us to each and every task. Is there a way to tell Project that if there are updates to a task, to match the data in a specified column with an email address and send an update notification for that task only to that address? For example, say there is a column titled "Project Number" and the numbers 1 through 5 are listed in that column. I'd like project to send notifications to PersonA if the number 1 is present in that column, PersonB if the number 2 is present, etc. Is there a way to do this? Or any other ideas on how to accomplish this? Thank you! Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125385
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    - enter work to get duration Hello all, I am trying to teach myself project. Thanks for any info that I recieve. Is there any way to enter in work in hours and get the corresponding duration before you assign a resource. Or due you have to always enter in the duration, assign the resources to bring your time into your budget. I have a bid with budgeted hours that I would like to enter into project to track. I am thinking that I have to enter in the duration as the budgeted hours then assign resources. What I would like to do is enter in the budgeted hours into the work column. Thanks, Andre Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125381
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    - Project 2007 standalone. Does Microsoft sells a standalone version of Project 2007? I have Office 2003 Professional, and I'm happy with that version. Thanks. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125379
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    - Lag / Lead Time I have a task (A) that will require 7.2 hours of work but is not estimated to finish for 10 days. Another task (B) has a FS link to task A. My questions pertains to the best way to account for the estimated 10 days it will require task A to complete. Should task B have a FS+10 days lag time? Or am I better off putting a constraint type of "Finish No Later Than" on task A. Right now I have task B linked to A with a FS+10 Days, What prompted my question is that task A is scheduled to start on 8/10/07 and end on 8/11/07 (7.2hrs), when in reality it isn't estimated to end until 8/24/07. Thanks in advance for your assistance. JR Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125378
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    - Project 2007 and office 2003 Can I install MS Project 2007 while running Office 2003 Standard Ed? Will I lose any functionality? Has anyone done this? Thanks, J Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125369
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    - Print Multiple Projects Calendars Hi, I work for a residential remodel company who has recently begun a transition from ad hoc excel/outlook project tracking to MS project 2007. We have created project files for each of our jobs and also created a master project (don't quite know how we are going to use it yet). I have a weekly meeting that requires me to print project calendars (not gantt charts) for the current month for each job. I currently have about 45 projects that will need to be printed weekly. Is there an easy way to do this... or am I stuck opening each file and then printing the chart? Thanks, AshleyRose Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125361
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    - Problem Updating Actual Work Thru Collaboration I'm using E-mail collaboration with Project 2003. I get weekly updates from each resource that contains the Actual Work in hours for each day and the Remaining Work for each task. These are the editable fields in the Progress Request form that's attached to the e-mail I send. What I'm finding, however, is that the Actual Work value in the Project file is being overwritten with the current week's hours rather than accumulating the hours week-to-week. For example, I have a task with a baseline of 17 hours of Work. Upon receipt of my Progress Request for week 1, a resource enters 8 hours of Actual Work toward that task and changes the Remaining Work to 9 hours since the original estimate of 17 hours still looks good (Remaining Work would be increased or decreased if the task required more or less time to accomplish). When I get the e-mail reply from the resource, I update the project and the Work, Remaining Work and Actual Work values for the task are properly changed in the Project file. For the Progress Request for week 2, the resource enters 1 hour of Actual Work for the task and changes the Remaining Work to 8 hours. (Remember that this task has 17h of Work, 9h of Remaining Work and 8h Actual Work from week 1.) After updating project with this information, I would expect the following for the task: Actual Work- 9h <the cumulative result of two weeks of effort>; Remaining Work- 8h <as entered by resource>; Work- 17h <the sum of the two previous values; unchanged from week 1, since the resource still felt the task was on schedule>. What I get is: Actual Work- 1h <ONLY the current week's effort>; Remaining Work- 8h <as entered by resource>; Work- 9h <the sum of the two previous values>. To compensate for this problem, I've been manually entering the weekly hours using the Task Usage view, but this causes problems synchronizing information between me and the resources. Does anyone know why this problem occurs or how to fix it? Thanks. -- -Mike Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125360
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    - Locking out people from keying actuals We finished a project and people are still logging actuals against it instead of as Maintenance. How can I lock a project or stop people from keying into it? Project server 2003 and I want the project out there for my reporting. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125351
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    - Scheduling and resource allocation Is there a setting in project that can be changed to prevent it from changing the time line on my scheduled tasks based on the resources allocated to those tasks? I know Project adjusts the timelines based on how many resources are available and what percentage of that resource is allocated to the task, but I dont like that. I do not want my schedulling to be so automated. Rather, I want to schedule to task myself and then have the timeline stay just as I set it after I have assigned resources, no matter how many I assign. I have no intention of managing the time or work my resources have attributed to a project. I siomply want to have a logical sequence of the tasks, establish the timeline and assigne accountability. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125350
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    - Am I using multiple resources correctly? Hi, I've got a question about multiple resources. I've had a look through the FAQ and searched through some old posts, but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem. I've got two developers and two tasks. Task A (50 hours of work) can only be done by Bob, but Task B (100 hours of work) can be done by either Bob or Steve (or both together). I'd like to able to level resources to find the minimum duration for these tasks, but I'm not sure how to do this. The solution that I'd like is for Bob to work on Task A until it is complete, during which time Steve will work on Task B. Once Bob has finished he can help Steve with the remaining 50 hours of work on Task B, which should take a further 25 hours. So the total duration is 75 hours (50 hours with Bob on Task A and Steve on Task B, 25 hours with both on Task B). If I assign Bob to Task A and both developers to Task B, then level resources, then they are assigned as I expect for the first 50 hours, but Steve then stops work whilst Bob continues to toil on Task B for the next 50 hours. I can resolve the problem by manually redistributing the work on Task B so Bob does 25 hours and Steve does 75, but I'd like this to happen automatically. Is this possible? If anyone can help I'd be grateful. Thanks, Rich Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125344
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    - Users not seeing in Project Professional 2003 Hi All, I have a question about creation of users in project 2003, I am creating a Project Server Authenticated Users from Project Professional 2003, through Enterprise Resource Pool then I can able to view this users in PWA and also in Project Professional Built Team but when I create Users directly from PWA-->Admin->Manage users &Group, project server authenticated users these users i can not able to view from Project Professional 2003 Plan. I dont know why i am not able to see these users. anyone have idea why this happening..? any suggestion will be helpfull for me... Thanx, Mukul -- mukulbhind ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mukulbhind's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=27489 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=797357 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125343
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    - 2007 saving as 2003 Whenever I save a Project 2007 as a 2000-2003 format project no one with Project 2003 seems able to open it. Is it just me or do others have this problem? Thanks for any responses. Jeff Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125336
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    - Timescale How do I make the timescale at the top of the Gantt Chart show only numbers? Such as Month 1, 2, 3 etc. Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125332
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    - Duration is greater than time between start & finish date How is it that I can have a duration of 40+ days but my start and finish date are either exactly the same or only a few days apart, and MSP sets the dates to this when I change the duration? Ultimately, here's what I'm trying to do... I'm managing about 120 tasks, spread across about 8 different people. I only get to utilize a couple hours of each person's time each week, so initially I'm assuming I only get 5% of each person's time. My goal is to figure out which tasks I can drive each week (as some require multiple people to work on them) without overburdening anyone and guage the overall time to complete all 120 items. As a starting point, I'd like to assume that each task can be completed in about 1 week with the assigned resources, assuming they have 5% of their time to give. I realize this is a somewhat non-standard/inside-out use, but it's still my job and I think project is capable of helping me visualize this...I just can't figure out how. As an example, I currently have a task with 1 person assigned at 1% (Units) with a duration of 90 days, but the start date is 12/14 and the finish date is 12/31. I've removed the Effort Driven constraint because it sounds like something I wouldn't want to use and I've aslo made it a Fixed Duration task type...though ideally my duration will only be about 5 days, and the total work will be 2 hrs. Perhaps I'm not using Units correctly....but somehow i need to assign people based off the percentage of their time that I can comendeer over a given number of days and have the total hours fill in automatically. How do I do this? Thanks! Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125331
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    - Duration is greater than time between start & finish date How is it that I can have a duration of 40+ days but my start and finish date are either exactly the same or only a few days apart, and MSP sets the dates to this when I change the duration? Ultimately, here's what I'm trying to do... I'm managing about 120 tasks, spread across about 8 different people. I only get to utilize a couple hours of each person's time each week, so initially I'm assuming I only get 5% of each person's time. My goal is to figure out which tasks I can drive each week (as some require multiple people to work on them) without overburdening anyone and guage the overall time to complete all 120 items. As a starting point, I'd like to assume that each task can be completed in about 1 week with the assigned resources, assuming they have 5% of their time to give. I realize this is a somewhat non-standard/inside-out use, but it's still my job and I think project is capable of helping me visualize this...I just can't figure out how. As an example, I currently have a task with 1 person assigned at 1% (Units) with a duration of 90 days, but the start date is 12/14 and the finish date is 12/31. I've removed the Effort Driven constraint because it sounds like something I wouldn't want to use and I've aslo made it a Fixed Duration task type...though ideally my duration will only be about 5 days, and the total work will be 2 hrs. Perhaps I'm not using Units correctly....but somehow i need to assign people based off the percentage of their time that I can comendeer over a given number of days and have the total hours fill in automatically. How do I do this? Thanks! Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125330
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    - "Microsoft Project has stopped working" I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate and Project Professional 2003. After I open a file, even a new file, I get a message "Microsoft Project has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." I've uninstalled and reinstalled both Project and Office, but the problem presists. Would somebody please help me? Tag: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files Tag: 125326

Does anyone know of some good analysis tool with which to do analysis on mpp
files? I'm looking for something that allows us to do queries on plans using
common rules of thumb etc...

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Re: Looking for analysis tools for mpp files by Mike

Mike
Sun Aug 12 06:11:38 CDT 2007

Hi anon,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You could try here:
http://www.projectviewercentral.com/projectviewer/dr_mpp.html

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials

<anon> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of some good analysis tool with which to do analysis on
> mpp files? I'm looking for something that allows us to do queries on plans
> using common rules of thumb etc...
>

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