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Sometimes you have to go back a souple of levels and start reindenting from there. Another words if you have three outlining levels back all tasks up to outline level 1 starting at the top of the list then start to reindent to outline level 2.
Carla

Sometimes you have to go back a souple of levels and start reindenting from there. Another words if you have three outlining levels back all tasks up to outline level 1 starting at the top of the list then start to reindent to outline level 2.
Carla

Hi Wendel,

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, I do get a login prompt when I open the front end database, I do not get a login prompt when I try to import from this database. I think this is the problem, I am not sure why I am not getting the prompt unless the new database contaner need to use the same security file? I want the clean database to not need the security file to be opened. The creator of the secured database is still an account, but I am not the creator of the database object and I don’t think anyone kept the password for the account for the creator. Any ideas or direction is appreciated.
Carla

Hi Wendel,

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, I do get a login prompt when I open the front end database, I do not get a login prompt when I try to import from this database. I think this is the problem, I am not sure why I am not getting the prompt unless the new database contaner need to use the same security file? I want the clean database to not need the security file to be opened. The creator of the secured database is still an account, but I am not the creator of the database object and I don’t think anyone kept the password for the account for the creator. Any ideas or direction is appreciated.
Carla

Hi Alice,
Happy New Year! By a placeholder task bar I would just mean a task bar without any assigned resources.

If I just wanted to delay the assignment of one overallocated resource on a task with two assigned resources the leveling tool would work if you leveled the single task only.
I would do my adjustment in the Resource Usage view. I do most of my leveling manually using this view. If you add the column ID you can identify task ID numbers as as you look at resource overallocations you can then look at the problem tasks in Detail Gantt to see if the tasks are on the critical path. If they are non critical I probably just delay the work by manually entering work hours per day on the days I want the work to be done on. If they are critical tasks I return to Resource Usage and come up with another solution.
In Rewource Usage view if you right click the Details column where “Work” is displayed you can add the details Overallocation and Remaining Availability to help you decide what solutions you might have available to resolve overallocations.
Hope this is helpful,
Carla

Hi Alice,
Happy New Year! By a placeholder task bar I would just mean a task bar without any assigned resources.

If I just wanted to delay the assignment of one overallocated resource on a task with two assigned resources the leveling tool would work if you leveled the single task only.
I would do my adjustment in the Resource Usage view. I do most of my leveling manually using this view. If you add the column ID you can identify task ID numbers as as you look at resource overallocations you can then look at the problem tasks in Detail Gantt to see if the tasks are on the critical path. If they are non critical I probably just delay the work by manually entering work hours per day on the days I want the work to be done on. If they are critical tasks I return to Resource Usage and come up with another solution.
In Rewource Usage view if you right click the Details column where “Work” is displayed you can add the details Overallocation and Remaining Availability to help you decide what solutions you might have available to resolve overallocations.
Hope this is helpful,
Carla

Hi Alice,

If you just want to delay a task to start on a specific date you could just give it a Start No Earlier Than constraint. I suppose a lag would be fine, I just think that a lag is hard for others to read if they are not familiar with Project. I usually will use a placeholder Task bar in the alternative of a lag.
If you tracking and a task starts early, you can enter the Actual Start date of the task equal to the date the task is starting.
The only thing I have used the Leveling Gantt/Delay table combination is to show what Project changed when using the Leveling tool in Tools,Level Resources. The Leveling Gantt shows two sets of task bars, one for preleveled tasks, and one for after using the leveling tool. The delay table displays in elapsed time the the task was delayed by Project when it went through the leveling process. The have found the leveling tool to be marginally useful. It just will delay tasks until an overallocated resource is available. Is has a few choices making it more useful. I only use it with the option checked level within available slack, and only for phases of the project at a time.

Carla

Hi Alice,

If you just want to delay a task to start on a specific date you could just give it a Start No Earlier Than constraint. I suppose a lag would be fine, I just think that a lag is hard for others to read if they are not familiar with Project. I usually will use a placeholder Task bar in the alternative of a lag.
If you tracking and a task starts early, you can enter the Actual Start date of the task equal to the date the task is starting.
The only thing I have used the Leveling Gantt/Delay table combination is to show what Project changed when using the Leveling tool in Tools,Level Resources. The Leveling Gantt shows two sets of task bars, one for preleveled tasks, and one for after using the leveling tool. The delay table displays in elapsed time the the task was delayed by Project when it went through the leveling process. The have found the leveling tool to be marginally useful. It just will delay tasks until an overallocated resource is available. Is has a few choices making it more useful. I only use it with the option checked level within available slack, and only for phases of the project at a time.

Carla

Caroline,

In Project by default tasks will honor dependency relationships until they conflict with the applied constraint. When there is a conflict the constraint will be honored. You can change this default in Tools, Options, Schedule by unchecking the check box for Tasks will honor their constraint date.

As for what are the pros and cons of FNLT constraints, you will get a message box telling you when you do something in the project plan that will conflict with the constraint (assuming you have not disabled this feature) and Project will let you override the message and accept the conflict. At that point you would need to look at that area of your project plan to see what is happening. In the alternative of using a FNLT constraint I prefer to use deadline markers. Deadlines are created in the Task Information dialog box on the Advanced tab. Deadlines will put a green arrow at the date set for the deadline on the Gantt Chart and if you create a conflict with the deadline you will see a red diamond in the indicators column telling you of the conflict. I find assigning deadlines to milestone markers the easiest to read, so for example I might put a phase complete deadline for each summary grouping in the plan and a deadline on the finish project milestone. This gives me a very quick look at where I am in the project in terms of where I would like to be.

Carla

To the first part of your question there is a Charitable Contributions database in the templates gallery at Microsoft.com
Carla

To the first part of your question there is a Charitable Contributions database in the templates gallery at Microsoft.com
Carla

What I would do is control the available hours for this resource by their calender(set thier availablity at 4 hours per day), then leave the Max Units at 100%. This says the resource is available 100% of the time available as defined on the resource base calendar for this resource. 50% in Max Units says this resource is available 50% of what is defined in the resources base calendar and is used to show if the resource is overallocated in the views displaying that information. If you have a lot of resources that share the same part time schedule you might make multiple base calendars to use for these resources. If you save them to the Organizer you would not have to continue to make the same calendars for multiple projects.

If you are wanting to see resource allocations across multiple projects and this is why you are controlling hours per day allocated to a specific project you might consider as an alternative setting up a shared resource pool file so you would be able to view your resource allocations across multiple projects in a single view.

This is not the only method of managing this scenario, just one that I have used and been successful with.
Carla

What I would do is control the available hours for this resource by their calender(set thier availablity at 4 hours per day), then leave the Max Units at 100%. This says the resource is available 100% of the time available as defined on the resource base calendar for this resource. 50% in Max Units says this resource is available 50% of what is defined in the resources base calendar and is used to show if the resource is overallocated in the views displaying that information. If you have a lot of resources that share the same part time schedule you might make multiple base calendars to use for these resources. If you save them to the Organizer you would not have to continue to make the same calendars for multiple projects.

If you are wanting to see resource allocations across multiple projects and this is why you are controlling hours per day allocated to a specific project you might consider as an alternative setting up a shared resource pool file so you would be able to view your resource allocations across multiple projects in a single view.

This is not the only method of managing this scenario, just one that I have used and been successful with.
Carla

Hi Alice,

This strategy has worked well for me, and you have understood exactly what I posted. I have found there are many options to do things Project, but it is not necessary to use all of them. The bottom line on resource assignments is do you have the hours, duration and units assigned that you invisioned.

Carla

Hi Alice,

This strategy has worked well for me, and you have understood exactly what I posted. I have found there are many options to do things Project, but it is not necessary to use all of them. The bottom line on resource assignments is do you have the hours, duration and units assigned that you invisioned.

Carla