Project progress line not responding to progress ahead of schedul

[Brian at LB]

In Project 2003 I can not get the progress line to zigzag through tasks which
are further advanced than the scheduled progress. The progress line
faithfully follows changes in progress that are less than the scheduled
progress, if I increas progress the line responds until it becomes vertical
through the progress date, but as I said will not zigzag to the right of the
progress review date. I believe this to be a bug which was not present in
earlier versions of Project.

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[JulieS]

Hi Brian,

Are you displaying the progress lines in relation to the Baseline plan?
When I use the baseline plan and am ahead of schedule (based upon status
date), I do see the adjustment in the progress line.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Brian at LB]

Hi JulieS,
Yes I have tried displaying the progress line in relation to both baseline
and actual whuilst displaying on tracked Gantt. In either case it will not
show progress ahead of schedule
Brian at LB

 

[JulieS]

Hi Brian,

I just took a look at the list of issues fixed by SP-2 for Project 2003 and
did not see a mention of this particular issue. But just to ask a few
questions:
Are you running SP-2 for Project 2003?
How are you tracking data in Project? Tracking table? Resource usage or
Task usage view and supplying actual work?
What settings do you have enabled on the Calculation tab?

Julie

 

[Brian at LB]

Hi JulieS,
Thanks for your response. I have SP2 installed.
I am displaying with either Gantt Chart or Tracking Gantt Chart, both with
Table Tracking applied
I have tried entering progress figures in several ways: via Task Info dialog
box, via Task Usage and via Tracking table using % comp (also tried Act %
Comp but that does not move the black progress bar).
Calc Tab settings are: Mode = Auto, Calc = All open projects, Calc Options =
only checked "Updating task status updates resource status", "Inserted
projects are calculated like summay tasks" and "Actual costs are always
calculated by MS Project"
Result is always no deflection of progress line beyond review date, but
always follows progress prior to review date.
Give me an e-mail address and I will send you a screen dump of my results
Regards
Brian at LB

 

[JulieS]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the detailed response to my questions.

On the calculation tab, try enabling the option "Edits to total task %
complete will be spread to the status date"

Without that option enabled if all I do is supply % complete but do not
adjust remaining duration, I can reproduce the same issues you have.

Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Think about it a second. Today is March 1. Sitting here today it is
physically impossible for me to have done work showing in the plan as
scheduled for March 6, doing it ON MARCH 6th. I don't have the time machine
I'd need to be able to do that. What I can do is perform the work that was
ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED on March 6 on some earlier date PRIOR TO TODAY. What
you need to do when posting actual work is insure that the work is recorded
on the day it actually was performed and NOT simply mark it as having been
completed for some date in the future that we haven't reached yet, either by
manually entering the dates where the work was actually done or turning on
the calculation options "Move end of completed parts after status date back
to status date" and "Move start of remaining parts before status date
forward to status date."