Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog

Luka Gospodnetic is writing this blog primarily about Microsoft Office Project 2007 and its correlation to project management.

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My name is Luka Gospodnetic and I work in the company named IN2 (Zagreb). Welcome to my blog which is dedicated to Microsoft Office Project 2007 and it's connection to project management. The blog will cover MS Project basics, advanced issues and also some nice tips & tricks that I hope will help current and maybe future users to master their ability to use MS Project. From time to time I will also try to provide a fun (realistic? :) ) side of the project management such as images, quotes etc.

If you have any questions or just want to say hello, don't hesitate to contact me:
   e-mail: lukag (at) in2.hr
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veljača 2008 - Posts

Resource availability in resource information only influences the overtime calculation

If you tried to set the resources availability in the resource information dialog (see the picture) you might have thought that it will influence the task duration, but it doesn't.

 

One might think that if you set the resource availability to 0% it will automatically prolong the resources tasks (depending on the task type) but it will not. The task will have the same date of start and the same end date. The only thing that will change, is the over allocation, that will be reported with an appropriate report.

When you want to make the resource unavailable, you have to click on the Change working hour button, and set an exception.

 L.

Posted: vlj 29 2008, 03:37 by lugospod
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Turning project summary task on by default

I read on Microsoft project blog, that you can make the project summary task show itself on every new project plan that you create. This way you don't have to add it each time through the Project menus. The downside is that you will have to do it through Windows registry, but if you are fammiliary with Microsoft products, than you know that this is a normal process :)

So, here is the walkthrough:

-    Start->Run->Regedit (this opens Windows registry editor)
-    Got to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\MS Project\Options\View
-    Right click on View
-    Select New->DWORD Value
-    Put the following text for value: Show Project Summary
-    Set the name to Show Project Summary
-    Click off Show Project Summary
-    Doubleclick on Show Project Summary
-    Set the value to 1
Posted: vlj 26 2008, 01:55 by lugospod |
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Out of memory - MS Project 2007
I suppose not many people experienced “out of memory” message from the MS Project 2007.  While doing some reading, I came across a Microsoft article which lists MS Project 2007 limitations. These limitations are supported only if you are running Project on Vista or on XP Service Pack 2. So for the rest of the operating systems you could get slightly different numbers. Also, limitations can depend on your computer configuration. 

 

Attribute Maximum
Resources per project 700,000
Resource units per assignment 60,000,000 units or 6,000,000,000%
Resource availability dates 100
Tasks per project 400,000
Task dependencies per project No limit
Predecessors per task 50,000
Successors per task 50,000
Outline levels per project 65,535
Consolidated projects 998
Open project files per consolidated project 998
Sharer files connected to a single resource pool 997 (That is, the maximum number of open project files, minus 1 for the resource pool itself.)
Open windows 50
Base calendars Tested to 30,000+
Calendar exceptions per calendar Testing was able to add more than 15,000 exceptions to a base calendar.
Rate tables to support varying pay scales and rates 5 per resource
Variable rates per rate table to support rate increases and decreases 25
Cost value in a currency field 999,999,999,999.99
Work value 1,666,666,666 hours
Assignment work values for work assignments 999,999,999 hours
Assignment work values for variable material assignments 999,999,999 units
Assignment work values for fixed material assignments 60,000,000 units
Custom cell formats 64,000
Print scaling adjustment range percentage 10%-500%
Page header text 5 lines
Page footer text 3 lines
Page legend text 3 lines
Page legend text box width 5 inches (12.7 centimeters)
Filter tests per filter 40
Filter tests per AutoFilter 2 per column
Earliest date allowed for calculation January 1, 1984
Latest date allowed for calculation December 31, 2049
Discontinuous selections in a sheet view 10
Baselines 11
Characters in a text field 255
Characters in an outline code field 255
Values and characters in an Enterprise Resource Multi-Value (ERMV) field 255 values, each of 255 characters
Value in a number field 9,999,999,999,999.
Posted: vlj 11 2008, 10:12 by lugospod | with 2 comment(s) |
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