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Row height issue
Hello, I have been facing recently issue with automatic row adjustment (Microsoft® Project 2016 MSO (Version 2505 Build 16.0.18827.20102) 64-bit): anytime I make any change on any of the rows, Project automatically changes the heigh of some of the rows into random height. Selecting/unselecting Wrap Text does not help - when clicking the Wrap text, the rows are readjusted to single line, but when I make another change in Gant (eg update % Completion), the rows height changes again. So basically after every change in gant, I need to select or unselect Wrap Text (the same result ) to get back single line per row view. I went throught the forum and tried advices: Bar Styles - check all on row 1, Bar Styles - bars without text, Bars/Layout - decrease the bar heigh. Nothing helped so far. Can anobody help, or is it a SW bug?
Resources histogram export to excel
Hi I'm a scheduler who normally uses P6 (although I have used MS Project a little in the past!) I'm working on a tender schedule which has a stipulation to be presented in MS Project... all good so far, schedule built looks good, hits the key dates etc and now I've loaded it out with construction resources (masons/roofers/electricians etc), one of the tender deliverables is to present a resource histogram (showing numbers of operatives/day) of the project resource. I'm looking to export the project resources to excel to produce the histogram and this is where the issue is! The options as I see it are - Export a visual report - I exported a time-phase resource usage report but then hit a brick wall when I tried to manipulate the pivot table data to add a calculated field to convert the hours into a resource headcount as project export to Excel using OLAP cube data which isn't modifiable! Resource Usage View copy & paste - next I tried to straight up copy & paste the raw data from the Resource Usage view into excel to create my own pivot table but unfortunately left clicking to highlight all the date just didn't seem to work - I could highlight and copy the left hand table but the time phase data on the right hand side seems un-copyable, if I highlight it I don't get any copy option on the left click! Export to Excel - next I tried to export the raw data in xlsx format via File/Export/Save Project as File but then am unsure of which fields to set up when mapping to get the resources time phased, I just seem to be able to export the tabular info - Lastly I created a custom report using the in-built graphing tool in Project to create the histogram but this gives a couple of issues - the resource stats on the y-axis are in hours (obviously) with no way of converting to days and more importantly it is in Project and not in Excel as stipulated in the tender requirements! Am I missing something fundamental with this/is it possible? Any help would be grateful - many thanksPFTW: Make or Promote Subtask Grayed Out Sporadically
I have two separate projects that were created in PFTW. One of them I can still make and promote subtasks (not grayed out) and the other project I was able to make and promote subtasks but now both options are grayed out. I have tried to do this from Project Accelerator, PFTW, and Planner and cannot do it from any of the apps. This is the image from the Planner access for the WBS without the functionality accessible: Here's a screenshot from the WBS where I can access: I am not the only one with this issue and we seem to have the correct licensing as we can access the functionality in some projects but have lost it in others. Any assistance troubleshooting and resolving this is greatly appreci
automatic determination of the duration of a task
Dear Community, I can't find a solution for these two challenges in MS Project, even if I know to had already solved it once... I'd like to link tasks with each other multiple times, so that the duration of the "driven" task is determined automatically. 2 use cases: 1. floating task copy Task A is planned for 4 weeks duration. Task B is linked to task A (SS and FF), so that the duration (including start/end dates) of task B is changing automatically, if the duration of task A is changing. This results into error messages, since a task can be linked to another task only once. 2. automatic dtermination of duration Task A and Task B are linked to each other (FS). Task C is linked to Task A (SS) and to Task B (FF). Duration shall be determined from duration aof Task A + Task B. This works, but the duration of Task C is not calculated automatically (see sketch). Any idea how to solve this? Best Regards, Dirk
Save as a current project to a Project template via Teams Channel
Premium Office 365 for Workplace and Project is available under the Teams channel. I have my current project ready for future projects, and have been trying to create a template, but I could not find the option to save the existing project file structure only. Even though, I save as a copy this with a different name, the copied file works as the original file. I got the same damage on my original Project file after some cleanup in the copied file. There is no UNDO option. I have looked up this Help section about it, but it says I could find a Save As under File, but my Project file under Teams Channel does not have this function. As you see above, there is no option like I guess the Desktop version might have. Even in my Web version does not show File tab. Please advise. Thank you.
