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Baseline Resourcing Assistance
Hello, I have been transferring a 1700 line schedule from a different program into MS Project. I have got the current schedule loaded and resourced, and all is working well. I have set this now as Baseline1. As part of reporting requirements, I have been asked to report current state (Baseline1) against original state (Baseline). I manually loaded the original baseline dates into Baseline Start & Baseline Finish columns on the schedule, prior to setting Baseline1 in the hope this would force those dates to become Baseline. When I run the Visual 'Baseline Work' Report for Cumulative Actual Work vs Baseline1 Work, I get the expected result, but if I also import Baseline work that data reads as 0, as it appears the resources have not applied to the baseline to create a work calculation for measurement. How can I ensure the resources are applied to all 3 fields (Baseline, Baseline1 and Actual)? Thanks in advance, K
Project Changing % Complete when entered
Why does MS Project change the % Complete value entered? We have a task with a Start date of 11/12/25 and Finish date of 1/20/27. The duration is 223.9 days based on a 4 day/10 hrs per day calendar (it is a long lead time material procurement task). The status date is 1/5/26 and the task has an Actual Start of 11/12/25. When I enter 10 in the % complete column and hit enter, Project changes this to 0%. When I enter 15 in the % complete column and hit enter, Project changes this to 5%. When I enter 50 in the % complete column and hit enter, Project changes this to 44%. I believe % Complete is either calculated or entered, but it seems if you enter a value in this field, Project shouldn't change it. What causes Project to change your % Complete value entered, and how do you get Project to display the desired % Complete for a task like this?
Filter Creation
Hello, I'm hoping this community can help me. I want to create a filter that will dynamically show all in progress tasks as of today's date. I've built the filter as follows: Start is less than or equal to [Value] -AND- Finish is greater than or equal to [Value]. My issue is what to enter as the Value. Copilot said to use "Current Date," "Now()" and "Today," but none of them are dynamic. It even told me to create a new field titled "Today" using the following formula for the Custom Attribute: Today=Date(). Then, it said to reference the "Today" field as the filter Value (e.g. Start is > or = to Today). But that returns the following error: "The entry is not valid. The test value cannot be used with the field for the data you want to find or filter for." At this point I'm at a loss. This seems like it should be a very easy filter to set up; I'm surprised there isn't a built-in system filter for this already. There 's a built in filter titled "In Progress Tasks," but that only filters tasks with an Actual Start that is not blank, and an Actual Finish that is blank. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!Link Procurement Tasks to deliver Just-In-Time without using up slack?
In MS Project, what is the recommended way to link procurement tasks such that the duration is the lead time of the material, the task "finishes" (material delivers) when needed by the subsequent task, and we know when to "start" the task (order material)? If we link the procurement task to the subsequent task with Finish-Start and As Late As Possible, and the subsequent task has total slack (float), this will push the subsequent task back in the schedule and use up its float. If we use Start-Finish, the dates line up but the procurement task doesn't drive the subsequent task as it should (if procurement gets behind schedule, it won't push the subsequent task). If we use the "deadline" feature, we are still tying ourselves to a date rather than letting the schedule dynamically determine when we need to order materials. What is the correct way in MS Project to schedule the ordering of materials so that delivery occurs just-in-time as determined by the scheduled start of the subsequent task?
Project Online Updates & AI Integration
Hi all, Fairly new to this discussion board but I wanted to ask if anyone is aware of any upcoming project desktop updates and potential integration of AI? From what I understand, project has never really evolved significantly and its competitors have started to take some market share. Would love to know if there is something in the works or where I could even find any information on this? It always seems to be challenging finding information. Thanks,
Problems with Microsoft Project office 365 Visual reports MSOLAP$cubes
Problems with Microsoft Project office 365 Visual reports MSOLAP$cubes Hi We have some problems with our Microsoft Project while trying to generate a Visual report: When we check the event viewer, we find following informationals: We tried the following: Reinstall and update the office 365 applications (we are running Version 2102 Build 13801.20960) Installed https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/client-libraries?view=asallproducts-allversions drivers. Tried to repair office installation Tried to update Visual C++ redistributables + tried to repair Informational: We are running a Horizon VDI setup W10 enterprise Build 19042.1237How to visualize data desktop projects after PWA retirement?
This questions is a follow-up to the discussion "Data access after Project Online (PWA) retirement". From the "Data access after Project Online (PWA) retirement" discussion it is clear that data will not be moved somewhere else. We are mainly using the PWA site to enable that the data from the desktop projects can be visualized in Power BI, so that we can create project and portfolio dashboards that summarize information from both desktop projects and planner projects. Any thoughts on how this could be achieved in the future?Visual report don’t work
Hi I am using msproject 2016 stand alone together with office365. And I get an "unknown error" when I try to use Visual Report. anyone knows how to solve this? I have read somewhere that I need to rollback MS Project to a specific build no. I don’t know if this is the solution. If so. How do I do this and to what build version? Br Rune
