Questions tagged [ms-project-2013]
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Is it possible to restore a single project plan from a full database backup
Using MS Project 2013, one of our PCO deleted tasks from a project plan, while work had been entered via timesheets on those same tasks, some of which weren't approved, yet.
The project is now in a ...
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MS Project (2013): How to assess impact of overtime?
I have set up what I think is a relatively simple 2013 project using the default settings. I start with some manually scheduled milestones at the beginning followed by a bunch of auto-scheduled tasks. ...
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Finish Date not correct
I have one task that starts on 8/1/22 and ends on 1/23/23, but the duration is 2.5 days. The end date isn't calculating correctly.
I have theses resources assigned to the task, total 27.2 baseline ...
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Assigning MSP resources with future availability to tasks
I have a project with a bunch of tasks of 20 days each and each of those tasks is assigned to 1 of 4 full time resource. There are no scheduling dependencies so I am allowing Project to auto level ...
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How can I show the month for a Enterprise Custom Date Field in the Project Center for Grouping?
I setup a Enterprise Custom Field for a Key Date that leadership wants to group by year and month. I thought I could just make 2 new Enterprise Custom Fields, one to parse out the Month and the other ...
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Percentage Values In Timeline (MS Project)
in the photo below you will notice four work packages.
Each one is 70% done (column % Work Complete).
Nevertheless, for the first three activities in the timeline I see 9%, 6% and 31% completion ...
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Entering Contract Start and Contract End Date in MS Project
What is the best approach for having contract start and end dates in MS Project?
The issue I am facing is the following: I entered both dates as milestones. all project activities are of course ...
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Simultaneous use of resources
I’m trying out Project 2013 to use to run a test lab, so apologies for the noob question. This seems like a basic scenario but what I’ve found on this forum is “Project doesn’t work like that”:
I have ...
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MS Project 2013 does not Sync with Sharepoint online
I am using Sharepoint online part of Office 365 and Microsoft Project Professional 2013. When I try Open with Project option from Sharepoint Online , MS Project opens up and asks for username and ...
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Microsoft Project - Using "As late as possible" instead of SF dependencies
Im new to project and im trying to link task 2 to a activity in task 1 so that all of the earlier activities in task 2 then work backwards. I have read that i should be using "as late as possible" ...
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Why does total cost increase each week when adding work in MS Project?
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 that is! Could it be because some of the resources are ...
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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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Work resources that don't influence the duration of the task
I work on a construction project. I have a task that needs 1000h to be completed. Depending on the amount of manpower, the duration of the task will vary.
To complete the task I need scaffolding that ...
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Microsoft Project 2013 - Auto leveling according to Resource Availability
I am building a project plan on Microsoft Project 2013 and can't understand why it is not allocating a resource.
I have a task set as auto scheduled, fixed work, with a 7 day effort assigned to a ...
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How to add dynamic date footer to project print-out?
I see other people printing our project's Gantt chart with an up-to-the-date date on the bottom.
How do they to do that? Is it automatic or must one do something every time one prints the chart?
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Work days and Duration does not match
I am using a 5 working days & 8 hours standard calendar. My task is 30 days . I have selected a start date on Monday and end date on Friday (30th work day) but the durationn reflects as 40 days ...
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Report in MS Project (Hr/task/resource)
I am trying to find/create a report in MS Project 2013 in order to display hours done in a month by a certain group of resource or a resource only (they are already grouped in the Allocation tab) with ...
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MS Project burndown for outline level
I'm working on creating a burndown graph for a large project that I'm trying to schedule, but I don't want the sub-tasks to be counted as a remaining actual task for the burndowns. Is there a method ...
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MSProject show main resource on Summary tasks
How can I show the main (resource with maximum hours) for Summary tasks.
I suspect I would need to set a custom text field to show this, but how would I structure this?
thanks
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Task Approval before Publishing
I have received a requirement to customize our Project Server 2013 implementation as follows:
Several project managers can add tasks to the same project plan
A centralized focal point is responsible ...
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MS Project 2013: Can I avoid MSP auto-changing my assignment units to less than 100%?
Curious if there is a way to avoid Microsoft Project auto-adjusting the assignment units, when I add a resource in the Resource name column.
In the project settings all resources are set to 100% ...
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Why are tasks split while updating plan?
I inserted the actual start for updating a task and then inserted the %comp and reschedule and resource leveling for the plan with ms project 2013. The problem is that the task has been split in ...
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How to Specify how Text Colours Should Override Each Other in MS Project
This is a little embarrassing, but I cannot figure out how to do this. I have added Text Style formatting, but I need to change the priority of the formatting.
I have Critical Path tasks formatted ...
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Start and stop in MS Project
I have a lot of situations where there is a small project that is, let's say, 50 percent done. Then it's completely put on hold, and restarted a month later. How is it best to accurately reference ...
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MS Project Column Time different from Project Time
In MS Project 2013 I am attempting to get a particular column to show time unit in Days but leave the default Project Time Unit as minutes for all of the other columns.
I can set the Project default ...
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Add a PWA Enterprise Custom Field to Project Pro
I've added an Enterprise Custom Field to tasks in Project Web Access (under Sharepoint 2013) but when I open an existing project published on PWA in Project Pro 2013 I don't see the new field.
It ...
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Looking for a way to remove an errant calendar from MS Project Professional 2013
I have a project file with a project calendar that shows up in the Change Working Time dialog box's For Calendar dropbox that is not being using in the project file. I've looked in the Calendar tab in ...
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MS Project 2013 cost adjustment
I would like to know what is the best way to handle cost adjustment to the baseline in MS project. Do you save the baseline when you adjust the cost when you get new estimate or not?
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Why does my Earned Value curve go back to zero
I managed to simulate a project in MS Project 2013. I created an initial planning, assigned ressources and put this in a baseline. Then I imagined two status for my project in two different dates.
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Un-wordwrapping columns in MS Project 2013
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to "un-wordwrap" columns in MS Project 2013. According to the docs, if I toggle wordwrap off and then manually adjust each row, wordwrap will snap off. I was ...
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Must every task in MS project be linked with each other?
The project is composed of three groups of teams, each team will contribute to the project plan. The team has listed their tasks, my question is whether all tasks should have a predecessor and/or ...
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MS Project autoschedule - full days of work are bleeding into next day
I'm scheduling weeks of work in Microsoft Project (2013) wherein each task will normally take a full day of work/duration for a crew. I'm scheduling them for 10-hour days and the duration of the work ...
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Can't find the Task Name column in MS Project 2013
When I create a new project in MS Project 2013, there is no option to add the Task Name column.
I've tried clicking on Add New Column but Task Name doesn't appear there:
The following (from a ...
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Scheduling hours over a fixed duration in MS-Project 2013
I am new to Project and, rather than spending anymore time reading the web, I thought I'd appeal to some experts.
In our company we often schedule tasks similar to the made-up one just below.
We are ...
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How can I display buffers in MS Project?
I work on a subproject, the timelines of most work packages we are managing are non critical.
In most cases, we have a scenario like this: Team A needs to work 10 days, but can do this anytime during ...
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Show resources grouped by high-level summary task in MS Project
I'm managing a project in MS Project Pro 2013 with several phases, which I have distinguished by summary tasks. Under these summary tasks I have plenty of other tasks, several again summarized. Note ...
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How to edit groups of tasks in Microsoft project?
I want to change hundreds of tasks in a project from "fixed work" to "fix duration" type.
When I select multiple tasks - the "Information" dialog changes only one if them.
I have also tried to add a ...
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MS Project 2013 - SubProject Finish Date not Calculating Correctly
I have a Master Project with a subproject. Inside the subproject there are two tasks. If opened alone and calculated (F9) the subproject finish date will roll up correctly. If the Master Project is ...
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MS project 2013 - complex resource allocation
I have used MSP before but not for years. I have some long term tasks and I would like to allocate varying quantities of resource requirement (against single resources) each month on these tasks - ...
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How to get MSProject to automatically increase resource usage to over 100% when the average Acutal Work hours is above the standard day work hour?
Let's assume that
the standard number of hours worked per day is 8h
I have a task with a Duration of 2 days and 16 Work hours
The resource RA is assigned 100% to this task.
this task mode is set to ...
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Filter with wrong total actual work
I have a problem with filtering in Microsoft Project 2013. When I create a filter based on some criteria, the results doesn't show correct total work and actual work. In fact, it sums actual work of ...
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MS Project: Finish Variance formula simplification
I've set a formula to monitor variance between baseline and scheduled finish. I know that there is a simple finish variance column for this kind of thing, but in my organization we've got certain ...
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Earned value analysis by client and vendor
We all know that some project managers (those that follow PMBOK/PMP) do earned value analysis to know SPI and CPI.
Schedule Performance Index (SPI) = Earned Value ÷ Planned Value -- How are we doing ...
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Difference between max units and assignment units in MS Project
I know difference between assignment units and Peak units , but can any one explain how max units and assignment units are related to each other ?
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MS Project: Few basis questions on tasks management
I have seen different managers entering preferred Duration in days and some in hours. Is there any best practice?
I have seen many manager will update "% complete" to update a task progress. Is this ...
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Changing default time from 0.88 days to 1 day
In Microsoft Project 2013, when I enter a start day of 16/6/2016 and end date of 16/6/2016, the default duration is 0.88 days. When I go into change working time it shows 8 hours per day. Problem is, ...
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How can I view the tasks which are assigned to my organizational team members?
I am a team lead and we are using Microsoft Project Server 2013. My team members have many tasks assigned across different projects. How can I view the tasked assigned to my team members within ...
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Working (part of) an MS Project schedule backwards
I'm trying to make a portion of my MS Project schedule work backwards, and it's not working quite right. I'm hoping you can help.
I have a schedule where Task 45 ends on 2/1/17. Tasks 46 through 50 ...
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Relationship between Work, Duration and Units in Microsoft Project 2013
I am struggling with Work/Duration/Units.
Example: I have a product that takes 184 hrs to build, we typically have 5-6 guys working on it and in real time, takes about a week to complete. When I ...
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How to show how late a task is in MS-Project 2013?
When a task is late in the status how can we set it up to show how many days it's late not just late? I want to see on each task how many days it's late.
