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Task Control - Actual Start and Actual Finish Wrong data
Hello team. Once again I very much want to receive your dear help. I have a work resource that has been allocated a task with 5% (11 mins) of its availability, in a 220 mins task. (...this task als...
Thank you so much for the explanation John. It helped a lot.
But I would like to know how it turned out in your case "Real Start and Real End of the Dr. Amadeu Resource with the hours displayed. In my case it was like this,
(The resource has 5 minutes as real work, but in the spreadsheet it shows 100 minutes) .... Is this normal?
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.
May I assume that by "real start" and "real end" you mean the Actual Start and Actual Finish fields. Is that true?
Unfortunately, once again your screen shot doesn't show enough information to answer your question. Let me see a screen shot that shows the Task Usage view with all these fields and the timescale data.
John
I will send the file to facilitate a more detailed analysis. On the other hand, it is difficult to make a print screen by the number of columns you requested.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Agg30WAoUvdLgQWHNYYlFd73aJNC?e=xwdGax
Thanks Jonh.
Filipe,
I've never used One Drive before but I do have it set up. However, when I tried to open your file I got an error message saying "Project cannot open the file". What version of Project are you using? I have Project 2019 Pro.After it crashed my computer, your file did finally show up in my downloads folder. I'll have a look tomorrow.
John
- I have marked the resources in red in the Task Usage - Control Table view. The Actual Start and Actual Finish fields
I took a quick look at your plan and I see a problem that needs to be addressed. There are dependencies on summary lines and that is bad practice. Refer to the following Wiki article:
With respect to your question about why the highlighted resources show a period of performance which is greater than their actual work (e.g. Dr Amadeu Lemos period of performance is 9:00 AM to 10:40 AM which is 100 minutes, but his actual work is only 5 minutes), I cannot tell unless I know EXACTLY how his actual work was entered. For example, into which field did you enter the actual work? Did you manually enter an actual finish date?
This is the screen shot showing how the actual work data was "logged" by Project into the timescaled data (what you call the "spreadsheet"). But I can't tell how that data was logged without a step-by-step accounting of his work and progress from initial assignment to assignment completion.
John