aboout Groups

[karishma]

first of all thanks for the answer aboout resource levelling.

the next question is about "grouping information".

i have just started to work oon MSP 2003 and have listed my summary tasks
and subtasks with estimate duration and start and finish dates. but when i
apply group to show a list of critical activities, then it is showing me all
the subtasks under the heading "critical: No" and only the last subtask of
the last summary task under the heading "critical: Yes".

will anybody please help me in understading this confusion.

any help will be appriciated

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

You say you "entered dates" which is not normal if you want to study the
critical path, you should just enter the start date of the project and the
dependencies.
Specifically, if you set a date to the final task such that all the other
tasks can be done later without impacting the final task's dates, then only
that final task is critical since the others have slack.
Hope this helps,

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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[karishma]

thanks for that, but still not cleared.

these are some of the summary tasks in my project:

abc 20 days? Fri 5/30/08 Mon 6/23/08

lmn 24 days? Tue 6/24/08 Wed 7/23/08

xyz 23.69 days? Tue 6/24/08 Wed 7/23/08

there are subtasks to all these summary tasks. now when i grouped the
activities the confusiioon arises, which in the main menu under the project
heading. when i did this it shows me all subtasks as indented undeer the
"critical:NO" and only the last subtask of last summary task is showing
as"critical:Yes".

from your last replay, i think you want to say that i dont have to enter the
finish dates for these subtasks. is that the point?

one more thiing. as you can see in the above table, the duration is with
decimals. why is that so?
thanks in advance

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Yes, you should NOT enter ANY date if you want to see the critical path.
As for the decimals you may get understanding from FAQ 5 in
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

And you have to link the tasks predecessor to successor
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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf