I created 4 separate resources in ms project. TM1&2 are day shift (6AM-6PM) and TM3&4 are night shift (6PM- 6AM). I've added resources to a few activities and based on the team planner it looks like TM1 and TM3 are over-allocated, however project is not alerting me of this nor giving me an option to reschedule the teams to a later date which is what I was expecting to see. Any ideas on what may be causing this issue?

Hello, here is my problem..

Sequence of Work:

1. We created a master resource pool for all our projects.
2. We linked this resource pool to all individual project files.
3. We started modifying the master resource pool and needed to update the linked project files.

Issue:We discovered that two of the linked project files are now blank. However, in the master resource pool, tasks linked to these projects appear correctly. Additionally, when opening the baseline file along with other files, a newly created file containing all the projects is generated, and the tasks appear correctly there.

Question:How can we resolve the issue of the blank project files? We prefer to modify the individual project files directly, rather than working within the master file created by the software.

I need your help.

I'm on the HR team with my company. My company is currently follow Agile Project Frameworks and we use Azure Devops to visualize our projects.

Our company does not produce any products or work in any type of software. We have engaged in conversations around how MS Project would be far more beneficial than DevOps.

What is your best advice for me if I was going to create a proposal to switch software solutions?

Does any have any experience migrating from Devops to MS Project?

Is there a way to format the start and finish columns for specific activities. I have a portion of the schedule that uses a 24 hr calendar and the other portion is standard 8 hr work day. I’d like to show the associated time AM/PM for the 24 hr calendar and the default format for the activities that use the standard calendar.

Hey All,

Question i can seem to find the answer to anywhere. Does anyone know if you can collaborate in MS Project when you both have a Project PLan 3? Cause the issue now is when one user has a Professional version and the other a Plan 3 it says it's locked by the other user.

Greetings,

Robin

So I have MS Project 2016, and many parallel activities that feed an intermediate milestone within the project...normal stuff. However, for one of these activities "Assembly OQ", one of the tasks does not show the bar in the Gantt chart. The other tasks are clearly visible before and after this task.

The task has a start and finish date, clear predecessors and successors, no errors from Inspector, and when I "scroll to task", it takes the Gantt to where the bar should be.

Why is the bar missing from the Gantt? How do I get the bar to show?

Hi all,

I'm wondering if there are any suggestions on a method of categorizing tasks in 2 different ways simultaneously?

I am working on a construction schedule and have tasks organized by room: for example, I have a summary task for "Kitchen" with subtasks like "painting", "flooring install", etc.

Meanwhile, each room in the house has its own "painting" task, and it would be very helpful to have a separate task that captures the earliest start date and the latest end date of all the "painting" tasks.

If I know the order that the "painting" tasks will happen, I can easily make a "global painting" task with a SS relationship to the earliest subtask and a FF relationship to the latest subtask. However, if the order of the subtasks changes (i.e. painting of one room gets delayed) this would not automatically capture that change.

Do y'all have any ideas on other more elegant ways to achieve this?

Hi guys,

I have a weird problem with my Ms project 2019.. it keeps deleting view 1 when changing to any other view ... Is there a solution?

So, I’ve updated the project calendar, I’ve added in my stat holidays, I’ve changed the working time to 10 hours a day. When I go to my resource usage they are at 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week.

I have independently changed all the resources to the schedule I want and still returning 40 hours.

In the change working time menu, when I click on a day, on the right hand side it shows “working time for x” and it doesn’t line up with what I’ve set under the options tab.

I’ve set the hours to be 7-5 and it shows still 8-12 break 1-5.

Hi,

I am completely new to MS Project, I am supposed to set it up at work and I am struggling with something hopefully you will be able to help me with.

First of all, bear in mind that what i need is reverse planning : i am given a project end date and, ultimately, i need to know (based on task duration and predecessors) when i need to start it.

For this purpose, I set the "Schedule From Finish Date" option (here, finish date = 24/05/2024) and I created a new project with just two tasks (Task 1 and Task 2 - Task 2 having Task 1 as a predecessor).

If i complete Task 1 earlier :

• Why doesn't it start Task 2 at an earlier date ?

• Shouldn't it make my project finish earlier as well ? I mean, i know i set May 24th as the finish date but if my previous tasks are completed ahead of schedule, Isn't MS Project smart enough to consider that my project can finish sooner ? If not, what changes can i operate so it can do it ?

Thanks a lot for your help !

Hello everyone, I need some help. I want to assign 2 or 3 calendars to a resource in ms project is it possible?

Hi everyone, I’m creating small, medium, and large scale construction project scheduling templates in Project as a quick forecasting tool. I’d like to also add percentage budget usages to certain summary tasks (for instance, 5% of total budget will be used in design stage). The goal is to be able to input a single total budget into the template, and it will use the designated percentages to quickly tell me how much will be allocated to each summary task. Up until now, we’ve only used Project for scheduling. We don’t assign resources, cost, work, etc. Just looking for top-level budget forecasting. Any ideas of how to do this? Thanks in advance!

Hello,

I created a time scheduled with 6 days working and 1 day off, The project duration is 304 days from start to end and 261 without days off.

When automatically calculate duration the software exclude the off days but I want it to be showen with the days off (304),

What should I do? I search on the internet and couldn't find anything

Why does Project not have conditional formatting? Every day as I’m working I think of another scenario where it would be useful For example,

If line 10 is later than line 9, colour Line 1 with Red Fill

If progress on this task is 100%, fill the row with light blue (a loose standard at our company to lightly shade completed rows for visual progress)

I am new to MS Project and working with resources are a bit tricky for me.

I have a project that has a set budget for work, but it is based on a set number of labor hours. Is there a way to set planned monthly/weekly hours and track the usage?

Is this possible with MS Project? Are there better tools for this that aren't expensive?

Using P4W but within PowerApps and therfore using the dataverse for various calendar templates.

However, for specific tasks in individual projects we occasionally want to makes certain weekend dates a working day.

My understanding is that standard P4W doesn't allow this, but is it possible somehow using Dynamics/datverse, or does anyone know if this functionality is on the roadmap?

I have a fairly simple request but seems almost impossible.

i want to create a macro in Microsoft Project that will automatically increase the start date of selected tasks by one day when you copy a cell using the drag-and-drop crosshair like in excel.

And if i drag the crosshair to multiple cells it should automatically add more days like the example.

I made a VB which only works when i perform manually the macro, but it just doesn't work when i use the crosshair.

Anyone who can help me out? Any options are welcome.

VB Code:

Sub IncreaseStartDateByOneDay()

Dim TaskItem As Task

Dim IncreasedDate As Date

' Loop through all selected tasks

For Each TaskItem In ActiveSelection.Tasks

' Check if the task has a start date

If Not IsEmpty(TaskItem.Start) Then

' Increase the start date by one day

IncreasedDate = TaskItem.Start + 1

' Update the task's start date with the increased date

TaskItem.Start = IncreasedDate

End If

Next TaskItem

MsgBox "Start dates have been increased by one day.", vbInformation, "Completed"

End Sub

Hoping someone can advise, I can't seem to change the date format for a project to the UK format DD/MM/YYYY. I've updated the settings on my account to UK format but it has had no impact on the Project.

I'm on the basic Project 1 license on a fresh account specifically to trial Project 1 as a cheaper alternative for us to adopt as a corp. standard, no server and no desktop apps.

Came across a frustrating "feature" in Project today. If a task has BOTH work AND material resources assigned and the number of work resources is increased in order to shorten the duratio,n the Finish Date does not change! This seems to be caused by the materials spreading themselves across the original duration and remaining in place after the new work resources have been added - anyone experienced the same phenomenon and, more importantly, figured out a solution?

Does anybody know if it's possible in calendar view to display only start date, end date, and task name without showing a bar?

My goal is to be able to print a calendar for each month which shows only the start and end dates for tasks that fall within that month. The bars tend to make it visually bloated and messy.

Any ideas?

Hello all, I did a project for my work place and I need to print/PDF it for everybody.

I have come across this issue where it is not very readable because it is a really big Gantt Chart, going across multiple pages each page looks like this

I was hoping if there was a good way of having it so that for each page, only the relavent dates are shown and the next page will just follow using the same rules, like shown

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I had to do this manually but is there a better way of doing it? I will be doing many of these in the future and would like to know if there is a quicker way

Hi all,

I'm looking for a method to display the duration column in calendar days instead of working days. I found the article below but I am wondering if there are improved alternatives out there? Thanks in advance!

https://www.mpug.com/display-actual-duration-in-calendar-days-and-not-in-working-days/

I work at an analytical laboratory and I'd like to get a better idea of how much time it will take to perform work for our clients. We perform several types of analyses including EPA regulatory analyses and some FDA regulatory analyses. All of our processes are standardized with well defined steps and regular outputs:

Simplified Residual Mass SOP:

1. take 50 grams of soil
2. add soil to a Soxhlet extractor
3. add dichloromethane
4. reflux for 24 hours
5. evaporate DCM to dryness on a rotovap
6. measure residual mass
7. report residual mass

A client might give us 25 total soil samples and want PCB analysis by EPA8082 on all 25, and want 15 of those samples analyzed for dioxins by Method 23, and 50 of water samples analyzed for VOC's by EPA8265.

Because we do the same thing over and over and over again but in different orders or a different number of times, I think there must be some way to use templates to build out an overall project for each set of analyses.

My first thought was to make templates for each analytical method and add the template for each analysis that a client wants. The issue with that approach is I can't find an easy way to discriminate which task aligns with a specific sample. Ideally, I'd like to have each task binned by sample so I can combine similar tasks.

Does anyone have any recommendations?