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    - Printing the "note" inforamtion to the "Gantt view" Hello I would like to be able to print "note" information the bottom of the page of my Gantt view Is that possible? Thanks for you help Majid Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107771
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    - Changing Start & Finish dates and automatically adjusting Due date I am new to microsoft Project ($400 training-worthless). I am working on a project. I have finished one job. Most of my jobs are the exact same all the way through, but with different ship dates. I want the same durations, but when I change the Start and finish dates the duration dates do not automatically adjust. Instead it just shows me being done with the next project well in advance as it is using the previous projects dates. Is there any way of NOT entering each start date manually? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107769
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    - Changing UNC file/path names in linked projects I have a set of project files with links to several other files, including a master project file that contains all of the files and a resource pool file. They are currently stored on a single directory on a file server. I would like to move the files to another locations, but the UNC path names are embeded in the (predecessor and successors) links. I've tried to use relative path names, but Project converts these to UNC names, including the server and full directory path. Is there a quick way I can update all of the links in all of the files so that I can move them? I know how to do this manually by updating every link in every file, but there are a couple of hundred all togther. A related qustion ... I would like to be able to store a "snapshot" archive of the set of files at a point in time and look at them. I can copy all of the files into a different directory, but since they all have UNC path names, when I open the moved files, they link back to the ones in the original directory. I would like to be able to open them relative to the current directory. This does not appear to be possible without changing all of the UNC link file names. -- Shawn Pollack University of Michgan Hospitals and Health Centers Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107758
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    - Is there an automatic marking of % complete for milestones? In my project plan, i have milestones with predecessors. Once those predecessors are 100% complete, should Project be marking the specific milestone they are tied with as 100% complete? I noticed in this user group in late Oct 2005, that Jan you shared macro code to mark milestones complete based upon previous tasks. I am asking for a slight twist upon that - i.e., will Project update a '% complete' field for a specific milestone whose predecessors are 100% complete? thanks for your help! jlg Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107757
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    - How can I display link lines for rolled up tasks? If I choose Format > Layout > "Always roll up Gantt bars" and "Hide rollup bars when summary expanded," the link lines disappear when the task is rolled up. I can bring them back by unchecking "Hide rollup bars when summary expanded," but this results in too much clutter on the screen (i.e. the duplicate bars get a big confusing). Is there any way I can either (a) display the link lines for rolled up tasks while still hiding the rollup bars when the summary is expanded or (b) modify the formatting of how rolled up bars appear when their summary is expanded (e.g. making it look just like a standard summary task)? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107756
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    - Levelling again I search in the forum for solution and can't find anwers ! Here is the setup of my project : - All fixed work - Lots of links - MSProject doesn't give me warning of overallocation, so each task is 100% or less - When auditing, I checked the option - Audit can ajust task individualy - Audit is done hour by hour I execute the project audit and the result is that almost all resources are overallocating. I want the tasks to be postpone in the futur. Can somebody suggest something ? Thanks in advance Marty Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107754
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    - Can I use imbedded projects on an intra-net site? I want to use the imbedded schedule function, but I can't get Project to accept the link. It tells me that I can't link to a web-page. The setup is exactly like you would normally use to imbed schedules, except it's on our companyâ??s collaborative site. Any way around this to make it work? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107753
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    - Grouping format When I have tasks indented to create summary tasks. They lose their place in the schedule (All summary tasks dispaly at the top of a group) when I use grouping to organize my schedule. How do I get the summary tasks to stay with their perspective subtasks? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107747
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    - how do you copy the material on a floppy to microsoft word My husband has a floppy disk that he wants to transfer what's on it to Microsoft Word. can't seem to do it. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107743
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    - Linking issue when part of a shell? I have 10 different schedule files, and all of them have links to at least one other schedule file, and some have links to more than one schedule file. When I open all of them at once to get the latest date info between the input/output milestones, everything updates fine. I even verified this by hitting F9. If I use what I call a "shell", a standalone project file that has each schedule linked into it (so as to view all of them in one project file), MS Project kind of hangs up/keeps calculating as if there is circular logic, but no error message appears. I have tried isolating the issue by only opening up no more than 2 schedule files in the shell (I usually collapse all schedules files, but when expanding more than 1 file, that's when the calculation starts) to see where I get hang ups, but haven't had much luck. Any suggestions? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107739
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    - Inserting Multiple Projects into a Master - When I insert two projects into a master Project A & Project B, when the master is closed and saved and then the project A is opened, it shows project B inside of it. This is not the results I was hoping for. Am I doing something wrong? I tired two ways, the first was inserting the two projects and when i did this, it appeared that Project A was correct until Project B was inserted then it appeared tha Project was a indented under Project A which explains why the project A original file had the project B info on it. Aince this did not work I tried merely copying and pasting the data from the indivdual projects intot he master but this looked liek they were not linked together meaning changes in either dod not report to the other. I want to be able to "link" Project A & B into the Master so updates of each project are reported to the master, but I also want the individual projects to remain indivisual i.e. project A should update if I move a date of project A in the master, but it should not have any of project B info in project A. Please help... Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107737
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    - Project Portfolio Server 2006 anyone knows how to login into Project Portfolio Sever? we download from our msdn subscription and install, we found two users on databases ('super','default') but the passwords are encrypted..... Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107735
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    - How do I customize field names? I am trying to change the name only of the fields "baseline" and "variance". I do not want to change the integrity of the fields. Any help is appreciated! Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107732
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    - milestones I want to display an extra marker on my milestone line on the gantt chart. I have one marker for "baseline start" and one for "start." I also need a marker that indicates that the baseline start recieved an extension. I tried adding a new column "baseline2 start" and giving it a marker, but then the marker for "baseline start" disappeared (though the date that normally appears beside it didn't) and I can't seem to get it to reappear even by hiding the "baseline2 start" column. I'm pretty new to project and any help with this would be great. Thanks. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107727
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    - Does Project 2000 work on a Windows XP Professional operating sys. We are converting to a Windows XP Pro environment on all the PCs where I work. I'm testing the various applications we have to see if they'll run in that environment. Does anyone know if Project 2000 runs on an Office XP Pro PC? Thank-you! Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107726
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    - Surpressing task updates when processing timesheets When processing timesheet updates in PWA, on clicking 'Update All', relevant schedules are opened in MS Project and the changes are applied. What also happens is that any pending task updates get automatically sent out (the same effect as a 'Publish New and Changed Assignments'). Is there any way of stopping these updates being auto-sent? What I'd like to do issue these updates selectively (much as you can when choosing 'Publish New and Changed etc'); not being able to, means a lot of unnecessary updates get sent to resources - net result being they take less notice of them. Any clues? Thanks in advance. Kev. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107725
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    - SPI CPI Confusion Dear All; I have a huge project plan and in that plan there are two tasks where the CPI is around 3.0 and the SPI is 0....... Is this sort of a situation possible? If yes then can anyone give me a scenario where i can try to reproduce this? Regards Sameer Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107723
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    - "Read only recommened" seen on one PC but not on other? In Project2003, A file is saved as read-only, with a passowrd to open, and is stored on a server. Can anyone tell me why some users get the prompt for read-only or password to open and others don't get the option and the file just opens as read only? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107722
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    - complete task how can I assighn weight to percent of compelet task? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107721
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    - limit special users Hello I need to limit some users and just allow them to update %complete. Isn't it realy possible? If not, Why can its brother (Excel) but MSP can't? Thanks Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107710
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    - Gantt Viewer Hello, I'm looking for an application which help me to present at a Webpart or any Website some tasks, ms etc which I marked at the project prof. -- Asaf Shamay Matan - Business Process Consulting http://www.matan.cc Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107709
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    - Project 200 with Outlook 2003? I am considering using Microsoft Project, but with the 2007 version around the corner, would probably want to wait for that version to be available. However, our office is using Microsoft Office2003, and we don't want to upgrade anytime soon. The question is if Project 2007 will able to integrate with Outlook 2003? Joe Dunfee Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107706
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    - Forn View - Resource Work When assigning resource to task in the Resource Work view, the drop down resource list appears in Resource ID order. Is there a way for the drop down list to show Resource Name order? MSPLearner Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107705
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    - Resource / Task Analysis for Excel Hi all I'm using Project 98. I have my tasks fully resourced. Some tasks have multiple resources. I want to create an Excel Extract that demonstrates all the Resources and the tasks assigned to them by Work. I trying to do this from the resource view but the tasks do not show. Is this something to do with the way I've setup the plan or is the feature not available. As an aside, I've noted that text fields cannot be incorporated into the analysis wizard - that a shame. Many thanks to all who reply H :-) Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107704
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    - converting rows to columns in a table I have a master project with 5 sub projects with the same 4 milestones, I want to display a report with the milestone name as a column heading and the dates listed in the column so that a user can easily see the due dates of each milestone accross the projects by reading down the column. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107703
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    - Confused about total slack I can't figure out how MS Project calculates Total Slack. For most cases, it's LS - ES. However, that doesn't always hold. Have googled on this for hours but can't find an asnwer. Here's a simple example: - add two tasks to a new project, "a", "b" - make "b" a predecessor of "a" - add constraint MSO 6/1/06 on "b" - schedule forward with start date 6/12/06 MS Project 2003 calulcates the following (TS=total slack, FS=free slack, SS=start slack) (1) task a: ES=6/12 EF=6/12 LS=5/31 LF=5/31 TS=-8 FS=0 SS=-8 (2) task b: ES=6/1 EF=6/1 LS=6/1 LF=6/1 TS=-8 FS=0 SS=-8 Both tasks have the same slack, even though they have different values for LS-ES or LF-EF. Task b has the same dates for ES/EF/LS/LF yet the TS is not 0. This shows that TS cannot be computed from just ES/EF/LS/LF. How does MS Project exactly calculate Total Slack? Anybody have a formula (the english explanation in Microsoft Project Help isn't very complete) Thank's very much! Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107695
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    - Webmaster Contact Info Can the webmaster for http://project.mvps.org please contact me? The e-mail on the website was returned. jeaksel@yahoo.com Thanks Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107693
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    - underallocation i am not sure about naming my subject as underallocation. i have task = 3h work it is fixed work also, only 1 resource is allocated for it the allocation unit is 100% and the plan is distributing this work between 2 days as 1.5 h in one day and 1.5 in the following day. also, there is no other task assigned in this day to my resource and working hours are 6.5 h/day my 1st question is why do the MS project distributed like this instead of putting the whole 3 h in one day?? the 2nd question when i change the unit of this resource to 200% it is marked red as overallocated, why is this happening? please, advise. thanks, ddd.... Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107690
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    - Can I print starting at the bottom of the page to the top? I am trying to print on paper that has a cut out at the top, so it won't feed through my printer without getting jammed. Is there a way that I can have the bottom of the invitation printed first, so I can insert the straight edge of the invitation into the printer Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107689
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    - how do i hide colum name in group option When i group my project by any column i see there column name and then group. I want to see column title and name instead. Is there anyway Thanks Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107686
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    - how do i set up a report for future resource utilization levels? I am looking for a method for MS Project to show percentage utilisation across billable and nonbillable tasks for approx 20 resources for past, present and planned (future) projects. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107677
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    - Roll up baselines I'm reading project help. I want to save a baseline for some specific tasks as my schedule is not complete.It says under 'roll up baselines' I am not sure exactly what roll up means. It says if I want baseline data for selected tasks to be rolled up to those tasks' summary tasks' select the 'to all summary tasks' check box. What does roll up do? thanks Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107676
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    - Progress report HI, This should be pretty easy but I can't figure how to do it. I need a way to create a report that shows the progress from a given status date...I need to know what the remaining work is and what the remaining work should be a the given point. I would like it in a table format, not the graphical representation in the Gantt. Any suggestions? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107673
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    - Totla time of task How can I make the total time for a task not include time when there are no subtasks. For example a task of developing a learning package might contain 4 sub-tasks each of 6 days duration but the total task time for development is given as 45 days because there are gaps between the end of one sub task and the beginning of another. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107670
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    - How to schedule resource morning and afternoon task time? I would like to know how to schedule a resource for one task to the morning and another task to the afternoon. If the morning tasks takes longer then it should skip to the next day, not schedule for the afternoon. Here is the situation. I have two projects to work on. One for my customer and one internal to the company. I would like to split my resource time into two daily groups, morning and afternoon. I would like all customer project tasks to be scheduled in the morning and all internal project tasks for the afternoon. How can I do this? -- Regards, Martin Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107669
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    - Duration is not accurate I have created a schedule using the default calendar of 40 hour weeks and 8 hour days. I have then adjusted the calendar to reflect the standard working time for our company which is 37.5 hours weeks and 7.5 hours days. The task bars have now all been slightly adjusted. For example I have a 10 day task that finishes a few hours before the end of the 10th day. So the succeeding task starts a few hours earlier. Anyone got any idea on how I might fix this? Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107661
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    - How do you create a cashflow graph for fixed costs? I am trying to create a visual cashflow graph that can display the project's fixed costs allocated over the course of the project, and set it to compare against the Gantt chart. Right now all I can seem to find is a printable cashflow report that lists the fixed costs prorated over their specified task durations and totals them by week or month. It would be much more useful to me if this information could be plotted in graphical form to compare to the actual project schedule. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107659
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    - collaboration using email I am using Project 2002. When I use email collaboration and publish information the email sent to the resource gets an attachment with a .MTM. There no way the resource can accept the task nor it gets updated in his Outlook task list. How can I sort this out? Shanaka Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107655
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    - How do i create dynamically linked tasks? i want to add a summary for the milestones in the plan. so, i want this summary to be linked dynamically with each milestone that is positioned late on in the plan. thanks, Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107654
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    - Date Format on Gantt Chart Hello, I am trying to show complete date next to milestone on the Gantt Chart, but it appears only day and month (dd/mm). How to show complete date dd/mm/yyyy ? Regards, Stevan Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107649
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    - sombody sent a file, but i can't download it, every time a try to download an emal, i get an error saying that the computer needs to know who sends it. but still i can't open or download the file. Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107642
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    - Can't manually move tasks (rearrange) I did this frequently with no problems up until just now. I suddenly can't manually move a task. I usually would click the row ID (grey block) to select the task in the entry table and then release the mouse, and position the mouse back onto the same row ID block. I would then get a different cursor shape which allowed me to click and drag the block up or down and so would move the task higher or lower in the table. Suddenly the cursor remains a selection arrow after I initially click the row ID block. Even after I release the mouse and reposition the cursor, it stays a selection arrow. Clicking a dragging the row ID block just selects more rows instead of moving the row. Did I break something? MS Project 2003 -Chuck Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107635
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    - How to automatically level resolve under-allocations ? Hi all, I'm new here but have been a (periodically frustrated) MSP user for some time now... One thing that we've always tried to do but never managed to achieve cleanly is schedule a background task (for example maintenance or support activity for a software project) that can sweep up resource availability across the project automatically. For example if we are a team of 4 developing an iteration of a software product, and we are also expecting 1 FTE worth of effort across the team to be dedicated to fixing bugs that come through, I'd like to set up a background task, assign it 4 resources, and have it 'soak up' any spare availability from the team. Or to put it another way, automatic resource levelling would allocate maximum units to formally planned tasks and any spare units to the 'bug fixing'. The amount of unti allocation would change as I change the formally planned tasks. Naturally if there were not enough spare units from the formal plan to support the desired effort required in the bug fixing task, I'd expect the schedule to expand accordingly. The reason we need this is that day to day, developers activities change, and the only way I can see of achieving the above is to block out one resource to do the bug fixing at 100% allocation. This makes day to day tracking enourmously fiddly as a day not spent on bug fixing by this resource has to be manually re-allocated. I spotted the use of 'Maintenance and Operations Work' here http://blogs.msdn.com/dieterz/ but this looks like it's in the enterprise web based interface for server 2007 - not in project itself... Help ! (appreciated) ! Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107631
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    - Non working weekends not working Folks, I'm a newbie to Project and I have some challenges using the application. I have tried and read documentation but nothing seems to be working. That is why I am sending this. Scenario: I have tasks that bridge over weekends and instead of the system to treat them as non working days, it takes them as working days. For example, I have a task that is for 10 days and starts on 20th, Project tells me it ends on 28th. That is even 9 days and it counts the weekend days. All the tasks are using Project Standard calendar. Thanks Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107629
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    - Can we customize a number field as a % type field I was wondering if we can customize a number field to use as a % type. I tried and I could not. -AM Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107619
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    - how do u get the layout choices??? u no when u need to make he pictures behind or ahead of a picture?? can u plz help me and tell me asap Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107615
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    - Divorce Acutal Costs from Most Calculations I think many of us would like to see this. It is very challenging to maintain proper Earned Value when Project continuously adjusts work/remaining work/remaining costs, etc. by Actual values. Even with allowing Project to Calculate Actuals field turned off, this is still a problem. There are certain fields that use the Actual Cost or Actual Work field in later calculations. Example: A task is scheduled for 80 hours and 10 business days, fixed work, baselined, worker gets paid $10/hr. On the status date, the worker says "I am 25% complete, but it has taken me 30 hours to get this far." The problem is that if I enter 25% complete into project, the Actual Work column changes to 20 hours. This is incorrect ... his actual work is 30 hours. If I change Actual work to 30 hours, the %Work Complete changes. Wrong. If I enter an Actual Cost of $300, the CPI calculates correctly. However, I am being mislead in that I am inferring that 20 hours of "real work" cost me $300. In reality, I may have underbid the task and assumed the worker was more efficeint than actual performance. It is my opinion that I should be able to take "time card data" or "actuals" from a separate accounting system and send these to Actual Work/Actual Cost and have things calculate correctly. Otherwise, I am leaving it up to my worker to say... "Well, I am 25% complete but I have only been working x% as effectively as my bid so my ACWP is $300 or 30 hours" I feel I need a better match between Actual Work and Actual Cost. Actual Work (to me, time card values) has very little to do with the Work Completed... work completed is BCWP and it has nothing to do with cost or a time card entry. So, please agree or educate me. Thanks jim I feel we need to be able to take "time card data" and enter it in to actual work. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=f1c09fe5-4517-4939-afa9-2dea60746828&dg=microsoft.public.project Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107607
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    - MS-PROJECT PROFESSIONAL AND CLIENT/SERVER I have been programming with MS-PROJECT using VBA with a oracle database. I import/export data but i have been working in a local machine and now i need create a client/server application because many users will work with MS-Project from a server. How can i do to create a client/server application? Any ideas?... Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107601
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    - Microsoft Database Files and Tracking Mulitple Projects We are running a MS Project Database (MPD) with a twenty or so small projects stored within, each of which are inserted into a master project file also located within the same Database. The whole database file has developed thru several generations, ( A generation occurs when we have saved the database to a new name)â?¦â?¦.the problem that arises is ensuring the actual location of the data of the inserted projects â?¦and avoiding unintentional changes to source data. I am now trying to ensure we keep track of the inserted files ( they do not follow the saved out database)â?¦..so I need to be sure I can get the individual projects back into the master database file. What is the best form of managing this? Opening the Projects Table in Access indicates a data source pathâ?¦â?¦â?¦.but this does not match the locations indicated in the Gant view or source.......which correct ? and what happens if you need to move the database ? -- Rgds Bob Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107599
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    - Allocating multiple resources to a task does not shorten the durat Hi, This problem is happening with several tasks on my plan. When I try and allocate more people to a activity, it starts to decrease the duration (the task type is default, effort driven). But it gets to a point where by allocating a resouce, it reduces the duration by just a day whilst reducing the work of the other resources. I need to throw people at the activity to reduce the duration and meet a deadline. But throwing more people at it is not helping. Any ideas Frank Tag: Total Cost vs Fixed Cost Tag: 107598

HI,

Can someone tell me what the difference is between these two fields and how
they are best used?
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