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Plan 5 installed but can't see any additional features (portfolio management etc)
Hi All, I have a licence for a month of Microsoft Project Plan 5 to try it out but on both the desktop and online version I can't see any additional features compared with the Plan 3 version? Can anyone advise how to verify I am looking at Plan 5? From online videos it shows a difference view with timesheets etc down the left side. Any advice would be great as IT are just saying the licence is applied but can't see how its different? Thanks!
Unique identifier for tasks in Project on the Web
Hi, my team and I have heavily been using Microsoft Project on the web (via Teams and web). One question that does come up, how can we find unique IDs for each task? This would be highly effective for many users, as without a unique identifier, we cannot reference previously done tasks and history. Is there any plans for this? Otherwise this would severely limit our use for project on the web at this time.
Project for the Web - % complete calc error
Hi, it appears that be the order in which the effort/duration etc. fields are entered/edited, changes the calculation from % of effort completed to a % of time elapsed. When entering a new task, typically I enter those details in the order: Task name Start Finish (accept the calculated duration) Assign a resource Effort (overwriting the calculated effort - typically my resources will only work part-time on project work e.g. 4 days of effort may require 4 weeks duration) Effort completed (amend as needed) Effort remaining (accept the calculated value) % complete (accept the calculated value) ..this works fine - regardless of the start/finish (calculated duration), if I set: effort of 100 days update effort completed to 50 days effort remaining will be 50 days % complete will be 50% However, if I then change the start or finish date – at this point the % complete calc changes to an unknown calculation which is neither % of effort or elapsed time. Even when putting the fields back to their original values, % complete doesn’t return to original value?!Planner portfolio not loading
Hi everyone, I usually work in Microsoft Project for the Web, but have just discovered Microsoft Planner and the ability to create portfolios ... which seems pretty smart. I have added a plan (Project for the Web) to the portfolio, but I don't get the option to add more. It's like Teams isn't loading the rest of my created plans (Project for the Web) Has anyone experienced the same problem and possibly found a solution? Best regards, LasseProblems with export Microsoft Project Visual Reports to Excel
Hello, I need to export a visual report from MS Project 2013 to a pivot table in Excel. When I attempt the export, MS Project displays a message stating that I need Excel 2003 or a newer version. I have a newer version, but I am unable to complete the export. What should I do? Folow this messageTeam member unable to access the Project site in project online
I have a project in project online. I assigned a task to a team member . Whenever i assigned a task , he can able to access the project. but he couldn't able to access the project site is says Access denied or request for approval. When admin or project owner opens the project site>site settings under >invitations, i can able to see who requested the site access. i don't want to manually approve. System has to assign him as a team member role to the project site & he should able to access the modules. I am using out of box permissions.
Assign a resource to a task after they have finished working on a parallel task
Let's say we have two tasks: Task A (80 hrs) Task B (40 hrs) And two resources - Jane and John. Both tasks start at the same time, with Jane working on Task A and John working on Task B. With auto-scheduling and the default 5 working day week, Task A will show as 10 days and Task B will show as 5 days. Now I want to assign John to Task A once he's completed Task B, so that he can help Jane out and get the work finished faster while making optimal use of available resource. Naturally my expected outcome is that the "Duration" of Task A then becomes 7.5 days. Is there any way to achieve this? For context, here's my starting position: This seems so simple and seems like the sort of thing Project is made for, so it's sending me a little mad that I can't seem to find any resources that explain how I might tackle this.Track equipment capacity in MS Project
Hello, I have decent experience using MS Project desktop but currently struggling with how or if MS project is able to track equipment capacity in terms of quantity/units. Ideally, I would like project to alert/show capacity for an equipment based on task start/end date show capacity for future planning. For example, I have 70 samples to run on the equipment but capacity is 40 samples. I know that the 70 samples can't go through, but how can I set the equipment capacity in project to call this out? I have been tinkering with resource sheets, names, %, but don't understand how to manipulate it so that if I set an equipment capacity at 40 units (not %), it will show me capacity alerts. I also want to enter in tasks that are happening months out and would like capacity alerts to be called out in this situation too. This is how I'm tracking it in project. I don't want to put each sample as it's own line item as there are many projects with X samples so I keep it as a high level task with the project and associated sample count. Maybe it's how I am tracking that doesn't allow for tracking capacity in units? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.Don't overrun Due Date
Hi there, I have a project and of course also a due date. How can I make sure that due date will not be overrun? If I increase the duration in row 3 ("bbb") to e.g. 9 days then the Due Date ("Ablieferung/Delivery") got overrun. When I set there in row 4 ("Ablieferung/Delivery") a predecessor, then the due date is floating into the future. General: I think this is problem is the core of every project. In the competitor software Smartsheet I can easily set up a formula that shows me the slack time. And in Smartsheet I can then set up conditional formating to show the line gets red. But how can I help myself in MS-Project?? Any help will be greatly apprecitated! Thank-you already dearly in advance! Best regards Hans ... from Germany
