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    - Why do weeks equal 5 days? I'm planning a launch date of a new product. One of the tasks is set to 4 weeks duration. It starts on June 12 but ends on July 4. How can I set the weeks so that weekends are included? It should end on July 10. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137655
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    - Expenses - Planned vs real Hi, I have ms project 2003; I entered all the planned expenses of the team, but at the end of the week I know exaclty how much was expensed, how can I enter this new information and then compare planned expenses vs real expensed? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137653
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    - chaning the work hours during a project Hi, I have next situation: In the project the team will work for three weeks just 6 hours instead of 8, how can I do that in MS Project 2003, I mean, the deffault are 8 hours for all the project but just for three weeks the team will work 6 hours. Thanks! Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137651
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    - how do I convert my project schedules into a fishbone chart? I have used MS project to plan a upcoming product. I would like to have a view of the major mile stones in a fishbone display format.. How can I do this in MS project. Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated. thanks sre Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137648
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    - Excavating old Project versions I have an old .mpp It is either MS 1995 or 1998. I can't open it and I desperately need the info. I'm too close to retirement to waste time on this one (or get fired) HELP! Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137644
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    - Project 2000 - GANTT Chart View Hi there, I have a GANTT chart that shows multiple projects within a programme. Some of the projects have common tasks such as 'admin' or 'research' and I want to sort/print/view the chart showing only specific types of work. For example, I want to print the chart showing only all of the 'admin' tasks only - is this possible? Hopefully someone can help. Gratefully Ian. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137636
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    - Start/Finish Dates I'm relatively new to MS Project. I have a baselined schedule. While updating the schedule, should I leave the start and finish dates the same if the date has passed. Or should I update the schedule with a new anticipated start or finish date? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137635
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    - Multiple timelines What is the best way to creat a project with multiple items? I have approx 16 vehicles that are all coming in at different times, but each will have the same number of tasks for each and the time to complete each task will not vary by vehicle. Can you help? I am fairly new at using project. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137634
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    - How can I insert a new task in project if the option is grayed ? I am trying to insert a new task into the middle of an existing chart, but the option to insert a new task is grayed out. It will let me add one to the bottom of the chart works, but how can Insert lines in the middle? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137622
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    - Visual Report for Earned Value I try to use Earned Value numbers. I can see them in the views and in the "old" report. But when I try the new Visual Report sometimes thera are no values, and the week numbers are wrong??? Please help! Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137620
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    - MS Project 2007 Won't run I've tried several times to install Project Pro 2007 on Vista Ultimate. The install says it completed, but when I try to run it, the program goes into this loop where it's configuring, then the splash screen appears, and then it configures again, and finally says it couldn't configure because there isn't enough memory. I have 2 gigs of Ram, 28 gigs of HD space and nothing else is running except bloated Vista. Any ideas? Everything else in Office installed and runs fine, including Visio. Erik Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137604
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    - Project 2003 SP2. Operation failed saving as HTML When trying to save a Project as a web page using the export wizard, it gets down to the point where it will try to create the HTML page and then we get a Operation Failed. Any ideas on what to try? Thanks. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137602
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    - "Show" on toolbar in Resource Usage view, dropdowns not available When in the Resource Usage view (Filter: Resource-Work, Table: Work, Group By: No Group), the Show toolbar dropdown options of Outline Level 1, ect. are greyed out and not available. When in this view for a particular Resource Name, I would like to expand/contract the displayed assignments(as displayed withthe +/- box next to the name) using this toolbar option. Why is this option not available? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137598
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    - Project 2003 file to XML for RSS feed use Hi, We have someone who has developed a calendar of events using Project 2003. We want to be able to make this into an XML file that can be read by an RSS feed reader. We successfully saved as XML but when we put it through the reader we get a message saying there are no items to display. We are using the feed reader called KlipFolio. I have also tried to open it in Internet Explorer and it just shows all the code. If you can help please let me know or if anyone out there has successfully made a Project into an RSS feed I would like to hear how you accomplished it. Thanks Joyce Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137597
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    - Unknow error about resources We were trying to Edit the resource Bety but we couldnâ??t. The following errors were showed: In the Manage Userâ??s and in the Central Resources screens: Unknown error: Solve the problems with Windows SharePoint Services. As we couldnÂ´t edit the resource, we checked it out (I donÂ´t remember how) then we tried to delete it but it wasnÂ´t allowed: â??The resources could not be excluded because some of them are checked-outâ??. Then weâ??ve tried to check it back in but the resource wasnâ??t showed in the list "Force Check-in..." How can I solve this problem? IÂ´ve already looked up in the http://support.microsoft.com and this is what I've found: â??An enterprise resource is checked out by a system process such as the Active Directory Resource Pool Synchronization(example), and the resource is not correctly checked back in. When this occurs, the resource does not appear on the Force Check-in Enterprise Objects page. This condition makes it impossible to check in the resource from Project Web Access.â?? Thank you for any kind of help! Adrianay Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137568
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    - expenses Hi, I have MSProject 2003, how can I handle expenses such as: aifare, meals, car rental, etc? thanks!!! Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137566
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    - Free Slack Can anyone please help me understand how to calculate Free Slack. Is it the same as calculating Slack for tasks with Predecessors or is it something else? -- SwapnaK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SwapnaK's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48275 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=962817 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137554
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    - Conditional headers Hi, A bit of a long shot I suspect, but, I want the header to change dependant on which filter is used for a report. So if the report is about civil work then I want the Civil engineer's name to show in the header etc. I have the names against the activities but since they change from one activity to the next, then simply adding in that field does not seem to return the name in the header. I suspect it is because the header does not know which of the many values in the field to return. Any ideas to have a IIF([Text1]="Civil', "Joe B loggs,"") in the header? Regards DavidC Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137541
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    - Need syntax to link ghost tasks I am trying to link tasks in two separate projects, both saved and published to Project Server. I am using Project Professional 2007. The instructions in MS Project Inside Out say to type, "<>\[projectname].mpp.published\[tasknumber]" or "<>\[projectname].mpp.published1\[tasknumber]" (depending upon the enterprise version control protocol?) into the ID field of the Task Information window in the Predecessors tab. I have tried every variation of this that I can think of, with no success. Does anyone know how to link tasks between two separate projects? Thanks, Dave Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137539
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    - Newbie to Project and forums need help Hello, I am new to the forums and only recently started using MS Projec 2003. I am wondering how I would go about the following: First a bit of history, we track our projects from a single date thi date really is not a start or a finish but more of a work date. When we do this we go forwards and backwards in time by using + and d Example say our project is supposed to start on 1 Jan 08, before tha can start we must start a test plan and many other steps. So our Finish date (for lack of better things to call it) is 1 Jan 0 our Test plan is built - 120 days so that would be 1 Sep 07. Likewis we do a report that is due + 90 days so that would be 1 Apr 08. How would I use this as a formula to calculate the dates these need t start for me. I envision a task sheet with fields labled Task Name Duration Lag/Lead Start Date Finish Date Where Duration would be typed in and lead to a finish date based on th Lag/Lead column inputting to the Start date Example Task Name Test Plan 20d -120d (calculated Finish dat -120d = 1 Sep 07) 21 Sep 07 Any ideas on how to build the formula and put it into a column? I apologize, if this has been asked a zillion times and also for m newbie'sm Cheers -- Kevli ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevlin's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=4829 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=96243 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137534
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    - How can I change the height of a task as it is shown in MSP? I recently changed the height of a task in an MS Project plan so it would wrap the task name in a view of a Gantt chart. For some reason, the grey block to the left of all tasks became clear, and I am no longer able to select a task to make it regular height again. Suggestions as to why this might have occurred? Thanks, Mike Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137523
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    - Scheduling meetings in Outlook using MS Project Hello, Does MS project link with MS outlook to create meeting schedules based on what you put in your project plan or email project deadline reminders to those impacted by the project? Thanks Conor Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137522
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    - Cost spreads in task usage view I have used the Baseline and Baseline 1 fields in my schedule. However, there is only a cost spread for the regular work and baseline work. Any explanation as to why there is not a spread for the baseline 1 work? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137520
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    - % Complete Calculation Trying to understand how the Task % Complete given at the parent task gets distributed to subtasks under it. Is it based on duration, work, dates or anything else? Please hlep...!!! -- SwapnaK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SwapnaK's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48275 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=962325 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137519
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    - Total Slack on Summary Bars I have been asked by a program manager how total slack is calculated on summary bars using Project 2003. I've looked thru Project books but don't see the answer anywhere. -- bmartin Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137510
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    - Importing Work Items from Team System Where can I find a cross reference list of the field names used in Project and in Team System? I import Work Items from Team System, but when trying to customize my View, I can not find all fields. I need Created by, Last Changed by and Last Changed date. Thanx ;-) Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137508
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    - Remaining work not = sum of future time phased work The remaining work for a task or a rollup does not equal the sum of the future work in the time phased grid. After statusing a task (or the entire project), we use the Update Project function to push the remaining work after the status date. The status date does not fall on the calendar month end but rather on a Friday of the fiscal month. The result is that the sum of the weekly time phased work does not equal the Remaining Work total that is displayed in the Task Remaining Work column. This means that the sum of the detail does not equal the total. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137502
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    - FREE E- BOOK Before you get into internet marketing you need to get the TRUTH! Get your free copy of... It's only easy if you know the TRUTH. It's a must read ! http://www.GRNPortalToWealth.com Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137499
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    - Snapshots of gnatt chart with legend in MS Project I have created a Gnatt and Pert chart using MS Project. I however need to take snapshots of the charts with the legend. How can i do this. thank you Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137486
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    - Date independant project I want to build a project template that is calendar date independent. I want the project to deal with say hours (Hour 1; Hour 2 etc) but not be tied to a specific calendar date. So the start time would be Hour 0; and the finish time, say, Hour 30. With a number of tasks to be done over the 30 hour period. Can this be done with MS Project? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137484
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    - Assessing Customer Satisfaction and Agile Project Management - PhD Please distribute this email. Data on both agile and plan-driven projects are welcome. To Whom It May Concern, My name is Donald Buresh, and I am a Ph.D. student at Northcentral University located in Prescott Valley, Arizona. The reason that I am writing to you is because I would like you to participate in an internet survey for my dissertation. The topic of my dissertation is assessing agile project management and customer satisfaction. The web site where you can find my survey is: www.assessingagilepm.com. The questionnaire will ask you about a software development project that was recently completed within your organization. It will take you about 15 minutes to answer the questions. The questionnaire will ask you a series of questions about the project, including whether the software product was developed using agile-driven or plan-driven methods. If you do not know the answer, the questionnaire will ask you a series of three questions, and based on your responses, it is smart enough to decide what software methodology was employed. The questionnaire will then ask you other questions about the software development project. If at any time you decide not to participate in the survey, you need only exit the survey window, and your data will not be collected. When you have completed the survey, please press the appropriate button to submit your responses, and then close the survey window. All of your responses will be anonymous and all of your data will be held in the strictest confidence. From your responses, it will not be possible to identify you or your organization. Since the data obtained from this questionnaire will be used in my doctoral dissertation, the results may possibly appear in an academic or trade publication. None of your responses will ever be revealed. Thank you for considering to participate in this survey. If you do participate in the survey, and want to obtain a copy of my dissertation, please do not hesitate to respond to this email, and let me know. When the degree has been granted, and the dissertation has been accepted and published, I will be more than happy to send you an electronic copy. Again, thank you for your time. Donald L. Buresh 3115 Enoch Avenue Zion, IL 60099 Home Tele: 847-872-1659 Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137483
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    - Example planning Hello Is it possible to search the internet for example planning files? I want to know more about the possibilities of project2003 (for projectmanagement)and want some (complex) planning files to see what can and to find out in the file how it is done. Anybody any idea where to found some? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137478
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    - Visual Reports: An Unknown Error Has Occured Interesting issue I haven't seen before. Curious if anyone has insight: New laptop w/ Windows Vista MPP07, Excel 07, Visio 07 - w/ .Net Programmability Support installed When running Visual Reports, I consistently get an Unknown Error dialog box. Checked and .Net 2.0 is definitely installed on this machine. Ran the Office diagnostic, and nothing. Suggestions? -A Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137473
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    - How do I enable MAPI to send email I am trying to send a picture from my cyber-shot program but the send button does not show as an option Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137471
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    - SQL backup hi; i am admin of pwa 2007.i wanna know how can i backup and restore from my SQL server.the backup and restore service in pwa is not enough for me.plz tell me how can i get backup from the actions that happen in msp server.and tell me about stsadm tool for backup. thanks Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137467
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    - Importing Excel Spreadsheet I am trying to import a very 3 column spreadsheet into MS PRoject 2003. I follow the mapping wizard but when I click FINISH I get a message saying OPERATION FAILED. That's it. No further detail. I have tried selecting Tasks, Resources, and assignments with the same results. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137463
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    - Weekly project I have a project that has a three weeks cycle and occurs every week. How do I set it up so that it doesn't have a start date and end date but a start day and an end day, for example, "Thursday week 1" is the 1st Brief, then "Monday week 2" is the kickoff meeting etc.? Thanks in advance, Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137456
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    - Sort by start date?? I want to sort my tasks by start date in the network diagram view but there seems to be no sorting allowed when I pull down the sort menu. Can anyone out there help me?? Thank you!! HC Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137454
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    - Creating makeshift timesheets in Project (need an idea) The company in which I'm currently employed is moving to using Project Server (2k7) as well as an implementation of PWA. In the meantime, I need to generate some "makeshift" timesheets for my resources on my various projects, so they can at least write down how many hours per day they are putting towards specific tasks. What we've been doing is basically came up with a custom "task usage" view with a table that has slots for Monday-Friday in the middle, so the end result is something like this: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Summary Task 1 | Summary Task 2 | Task 1 | John Q Public | | | | | | I print this out, hand it to John Q, and at the end of the week John goes through his various tasks and just jots down a number for that particular task, eventually tallying up to approximately 40 (when all of his tasks are combined) Although this is temporary, it is still very inconvenient for the resources for obvious reasons. One thing I'd like to do to make these Task Usage sheets easier to read is compress the summary task and task hierarchy down to 1 line. So instead of a different line for each summary task, the above might look like this: m | t | w | th | f Summary Task 1, Summary task 2, Task 1 - John Q. Public Even if this is formatted weird when people view this, hopefully that gets the point across. Essentially a way to show an entire hierarchy/ summary on a single line for at ask, rather than 6 lines to get 4 summary tasks and 1 real task, and 1 resource name. Any ideas? If anyone needs clarifications, by all means let me know. Thanks in advance for any help, Mike Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137453
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    - % Complete to Date I'd like to easily report what percent of work is complete as expected to be by date. Say I have tasks to be finished last week, this week, and next week. Some of my tasks from last week are done, but not all, yet some of my tasks to start next week have begun. Can project easily calculate some % complete to Date? Or atleast, even if it doesn't give me credit for that work I am ahead on, can it tell me if I'm up to date with what I said I would be by now? Jon S. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137451
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    - BCWP and BCWS I saved a baseline and I entered my planned cost in BAC field and enetered % complete and the BCWP field still shows 0 value. What am I doing wrong? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137450
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    - Actual Work - Converting to Decimals We use MSP 2003. We are using it to track actual time for all tasks entered. We are using a resource pool (not sure if this matters). When we enter the actual work, for some tasks, for some resources, it changes the numbers to decimals after the plan is saved and closed - we do not see it actually do this during entry. We NEVER enter decimals. This is very frustrating to the PM's. Help! Thanks, Tammy Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137447
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    - Microsoft Project - remove resources allocation % for display? I am the only person on the project that has Microsoft Project so I am working with hard copies and excel to distibute tasks. In this distribution, I would like to show the team who is assigned to what task but NOT what percentage of time is assigned. How to I remove the % displayed from the resource column on the Gantt Chart view while still keeping all of my resource scheduling in the Resource Usage View? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137436
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    - How do I stop a recurring document? I need to be able to know when a recurring document has ended. How do I get it to flag me? to stop the payment. Also I need the system to tell me when something is overdue? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137431
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    - how can i enter time-off that adjusts dates in the timeplan? Hi, Im pretty new to using project. I've got all my info into the time plan, at the top i have entered all holiday periods so they are clear to see. When i have tryed to make these non working days they appear in the calender, but this does not adjust and allow for this time in the plan/gant chart - eg i want the completion date to finish 2 weeks later because of a summer shutdown period. cant find the answer in tutorial... can anyone help please?? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137423
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    - How to color the task name; MSP2003 Hi, I changed the task name in blue from "font setting" and saved the project gantt, but it was not be applied after I reopen the gantt. Please advise me how to keep task name in color. Thank you in advance. Sara -- New project administrator Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137419
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    - Importing Progress Data from excel I was wondering if anybody has figured a way to import progres information from an excel spreadsheet? I am working on Microsof Project Professional 2007 and Excel 2007. Every week i would like t update % work complete from various project leaders' progress summar sheets which are produced in excel (necessary as per custome specification). There are thousands of tasks per project and a larg number of projects in progress at any one time, however, if there was way to automatically update or synch the % work complete column wit their equivalent cell in an excel spreadsheet it would make this tas possible. Any help or opinions would be much apreciate -- frankcdal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- frankcdaly's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=4687 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=96044 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137418
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    - How do I change the project calander from 5 day to 7 day week? I have a project that spans from May 06 to Jan 08. The project calander was initially set up with holidays as non work days and a 5 day work week. I want to change holiday non-work days to work days and change to a 7 day work week and reflect this in completed as well as in-progress and scheduled activities. Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137412
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    - Resource Usage view I have a consolidated project with many subtasks linked into a main project. On the Gnatt Chart, the Task Name is always the file name that I have assigned to the sub project (ie. 100 - Job). However, when I bring up the Resource Usage view, the Project field is the full path of the sub project (ie. C:\Files\100 - Job.mpp). Is there any way to change that full path name in the Resource Usage to just show the sub project file name? If not, this is a very annoying feature of consolidated projects! -- sometimes i cringe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sometimes i cringe's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=47919 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=960351 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137411
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    - task hierarchy in My tasks With Project Server 2007, is it possible to show the task Hierarchy in "My Taks" view or at least in the timesheet? In the past we were using Project Server 2003 and the team member had access to the task hierarchy. It is available in the task details, but, it means that you have to click on each task to see the "task path". For example if I assign the following tasks to a team member: Project "New product" Module1 Write design spec Module 2 Write design spec In project 2007, the team member only sees: New product Write design spec Write design spec In this way, we got a lot of problems...some ideas to resolve this ? Tag: Project and Outlook tasks Tag: 137408

Hi there, if I am using Project 2007 I see some existing posts that say I can
set reminders (in Outlook) - but do I have to also be using Project Server?

Also can I set reminders in Outlook just for myself or for other colleagues
also?

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Re: Project and Outlook tasks by JulieS

JulieS
Sun May 11 10:42:34 CDT 2008

Hello EJB,

The set reminder works without Project server. You'll need to have
accurate email addresses for the resources in the project file. Then
simply select the task, click the Set reminder button to send the task
to the resource's task list in Outlook 2007.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
about Microsoft Project

"EJB" <EJB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E82142EB-3242-4F72-ABAD-821F8885ADA6@microsoft.com...
> Hi there, if I am using Project 2007 I see some existing posts that
> say I can
> set reminders (in Outlook) - but do I have to also be using Project
> Server?
>
> Also can I set reminders in Outlook just for myself or for other
> colleagues
> also?

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