Questions tagged [ms-project]
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MS Project - How do I calculate / report work by resource group between two dates
I have a request to provide my company an estimate of the number of work hours / days expected by the business to be involved a project so that they can perform their hiring forecasts for the year. I'...
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EVM and Schedule Variance
I am using MS Project to get Schedule Variance of a project. At this point in time I have put all the tasks associated with the project, assigned resources to the tasks (all of the resources are type '...
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Use task assignments as resource engagements
In Microsoft Professional, is there a way for resource task assignments to autopopulate as resource engagements for utilization reporting purposes? If so, how?
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MS project shows a PV of 0 for task with resources of type cost
I am using MS Project to calculate the Earn Value of one task. let's call it Mech Installation. The task has a duration of 30 days (from 2/6/20 to 3/18/20). In the Resource Sheet I added 'Mechanical', ...
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In MS Project :the resource calendar did not show up in the gantt chart but it shows at the resource usage sheet
the resource calendar did not show up in the gantt chart but it shows at the resource usage sheet:
i mean that, i assigned the Friday and Saturday as days off in some resources (i am using the ...
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How do I schedule task with two predecessors based on latest finish date
I have a task (row 100) which have two predecessors, row 20 and row 30. As it is now, row 100 starts 4 weeks after row 20 has finished and 4 weeks after row 30 has finished. Is it possible for MS ...
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Parallel task with single person poject in microsoft project
I am making plan for my personal project.I have deadline for top level task(Project Planning- 31 days). I have rough idea of how I can divide these 31 days among sub-tasks. For example, Problem ...
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Updating Links When Tasks are Added
I'm relatively new to Project and am after some help. I have a project schedule consisting of approx 160 tasks, grouped under a number of Summary Tasks. There are many task dependencies created, the ...
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Milestone behavior in MS Project
I am working in MS Project with a project someone else set up. This project contains 29 activities which are auto scheduled, has a minimum start date constraint on an activity, and two milestones. The ...
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Total cost increases every week,
I am using the MS project,i have noticed that the total cost column of the project increases every time i enter actual work.
i am not sure why is that! could it be because some of the ressources are ...
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uneven work distribution
I was having some issues with a larger project, so I went back to something simple (KISS) to test my observations. And here's the issue: Project wants to spread the work out over the duration of the ...
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S-Curve with % complete column on MS-Project
Does anyone have any idea or could provide me with any insight about how to setup S-Curve graph based on "% complete" column ? This would be very helpful as I am stuck with this task for 2 days.
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Trusted Location in MS Project, needed for running macro automatically
I have a macro which reschedules all Project on PWA. Now I want to automate/schedule execution of this macro. I think I can do this using Task Scheduler. But every time a Project with macro opens, it ...
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Macro Planning Road Map
I would like to have your opinion on an issue I am facing in project management.
I would like to create a Roadmap 2020 for my team, a kind of macro planning.
A concrete example, I have a list of ...
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Trying to create a Master Plan. Dates and duration of some projects change when inserted as a Sub-project
Trying to make a Master Plan on MS Project.
Some sub-projects were inserted with no issues, but for other sub-projects both the work effort and Duration change.
Is there a reason for this? If you ...
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MS Project - Application Crashes When Opening VBE & Master File
Project ver 1902 (Build 11328.20438 Click to Run), Windows 10
I have a particular master file (42 sub projects) that crashes the Project application any time I attempt to open the VBE or run a macro. ...
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How can I create a custom assignment field, like Finish Variance, to display in Resource Usage?
I'm trying to create a finish variance field on assignments in the Resource Usage view, but I keep getting "#ERROR". Both the Finish and Baseline Finish fields are available on Resources and ...
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MS project how to create alternative schedule to understand the impact of certain changes
We are using MS project professional.
Question : Assume I have a schedule A. There are 4 developers assigned to A as well. My management asks if they pull 2 resources out what will happen to the ...
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How to allocate a manager to many tasks that overlap
I have a project with a lot of work going on in different domains. Say one domain is Business Process. Each domain has a single manager, for example the Business Process manager. There are lots of ...
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MS Project: create tasks with dynamic durations based on main milestones
From my point of view, I want to implement a straight-forward dependency in MS Project. As milestones there are:
x = project start
y = project end
The tasks are:
a = define risk management ...
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How to identify tasks that should have started (based on completed prerequisites)
I have a MS Project plan that orchestrates multiple hundred activities over a couple of hours (the tasks also have dependencies) and would like to drive the execution based on the plan.
During the ...
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MS Project Configuration - 80% allocation to project, max of 50% per task per day
I'm a newbie to MS Project here, so I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction, or tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Is there a way to constrain a resource in MS Project ...
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Why are my planned values for tasks so high when employees not working 8 hours?
I have assigned 5 resources for a task. MS Project assumes that all resources are available to work 8 hours per day 5 days per week. This is not the case in my schedule. Some of the resources work ...
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Show/hide lookup table options in ms project
How do I show/hide values from a Enterprise lookup table available for selection in ms Project? These values to be shown varies from project to project so a macro has to be written which should run ...
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Catchup plan and look ahead schedule in MS Project
How to create a catch-up plan,30 days look ahead schedule and s-curves in MS-Project 2016?
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Values such as (EV) and (PV) does not show in some tasks
I have been working on a project for a while now, i've always faced the issue that the MSP project does not show me all the values like the planned value (BCWP), BCWS... ( in some task it is shown) ...
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Auto-populate Lookup values from a custom field
I have written below code for custom field 'Product_task' to take values selected for field 'SFDC Product'
as options. However this doesn't seem to work always. Please let me know your suggestions.
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In Project Web App > PWA settings in 'Personal settings' part, the link 'Manage My Alerts and Reminders' is not present
In Project Web App > 'PWA settings' in 'Personal settings' part, the link 'Manage My Alerts and Reminders' is not present. But in 'Additional Server Settings' checkbox 'Turn on notifications' is ...
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How to call MS Project API
I need to write a macro to reschedule multiple projects. I am able to do everything, except I am not able to perform actions exactly same as in-built Reschedule option does. Is there someway that I ...
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Microsoft Project: Auto Start/Finish Dates Aren't Correct (get set for start of project)
Having some issues with Microsoft Project. Making a task marked as complete (100%) whatever the view, the task gets set to have a Start/Finish (including the Actual Start/Finish) date to that of the ...
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MS Project Agile Showing Wrong Start/Finish Dates
Hopefully you can help provide me with insight.
So I'm new to the Agile functions of MS Project, and I have a board with sprints and tasks set up. When inspecting the dates for Start/Finish times of ...
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MS Project schedules only 7 hours for starting day of task
I have an existing project file (.mpp file). I realized that duration of all tasks is one day longer comparing to my estimation. For example, a task with duration 2 days starting at 3.6.2019 is ...
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Scheduling based on end date and amount of hours willing to spend per course
Given an end date and the amount of hours I'm willing to spend per course (say 250 hours each for 2 concurrent courses), how do I make MS Project Professional 2019 spread out the courses evenly every ...
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Custom Column Calculation
We use MS Project for work. I want to create a column that multiplies the cost of 'work' resources by 5% and 'cost' resources by 15% for each task line.
In Excel I know I could use an 'ifs' ...
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How to merge multiple Enterprise Resources into one Enterprise Resource in Project Server?
In Project Server (2013 if I need to be more specific), assume you have the following Enterprise Resources:
Res. A
Res. B
And you would like to replace them to be a single Enterprise Resource:
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How to generate a portfolio milestones roadmap with Project server
my new company is using MSP 2013 for change management in combination with the Project Server for the portfolio management.
Do you know an integrated way to promote project milestones to portfolio ...
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Correctly Calculate Cost Based on Units Percentage
I have an 8-month project am I planning. It's a software development project with 11 developers (and many other resources). I count "Devs" as one resource item, rather than Dev1, Dev2, Dev3 etc. On ...
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MS Project 2016 dashboard
would like to ask if there is a formula or custom visual or field that will show the count of activities that are completed, On schedule and Late??
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Macro to run on projects
I have some tasks to be be performed on each project daily. I can write a macro to automate those tasks for a project. That way I have to run that macro exclusively for each project. How do I write a ...
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Button to run macro in MS Project available for all users
I am not able to find how I do I make a button available at enterprise level to run a macro. I have nothing showing up in Modules tab in Organizer though I have written Macro and successfully made ...
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How to share MS Project macro?
I have created a macro in my MS- Project. I am admin. Now how can I make it available to be used by other MS- Project users of my enterprise? Macro is created in Global file/template.
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How can I see 'next available' tasks in MS Project?
I'm used to creating project checklists in software such as OmniFocus, which shows me 'next available' tasks: those that are available now, aren't deferred, whose predecessors have been completed, etc....
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I have a resource who will work all day Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday and a Friday morning every week, Can I set him up as one calendar entry?
It seems as though I can't set full days and part days in one go?
I've created a new Calendar from the standard calendar and can assign the full days but cannot see how I would split that one day in ...
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Why are my calculated spans slightly less than my durations? [MS Project]
I calculated the span based on my start and finish dates to double check the file.
Why are these two columns not equal? Is there a setting wrong somewhere? Does this mean my end date isn't being ...
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Why does my duration = calendar days for a 5 day work week?
shouldn't the calendar days be 2/7th longer than the duration if we're not working Saturdays and Sundays?
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Display in the Details View --> Task Form: Sorting Predecessors by Task ID, not alphabetically
I'm using MS Project 2013 Professional
In the Details View using Task Form, displaying Predecessor view, it is sorting alphabetically by Task Name when I would rather see it sorted by Task ID. I do ...
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MS Project: Sub-tasks causing unexpected 'Late Start'
I'm attempting to build a schedule and use MS Project to calculate dates and flow, based on constraints and task linking, but am unable to overcome an apparent issue with how the 'Late Start' is ...
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Fix task time of day (Trip planning with MS Project)
I'd like to be able to fix the time of day that a given task must start at and its duration without specifying the actual start date. In this scenario, the date would depend on the end time & date ...
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How to Create a Custom “Look Ahead” Field Formula?
I am very new to MS Project and I am struggling to create a Look-Ahead formula for a flag field in a master project file (collection of sub projects). I can't seem to get even the simplest formula to ...
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How to calculate project finish date with fixed work and different date of resource availability
I am preparing a high-level project plan in mpp to see the top level view when the project will finish based on the resources availability and work estimation.
My requirement is as: I have an ...
