can assignment duration remain the same irrespective of the resource information

[Moorthy]

Hey All,
i am working on MSP for some time and i got a small issue,suppose
if i have a task of 10 hours duration and a resource assignment for 10
hours and now i increase the task duration to 15 hours,is there any
way my assignemnt duraion remains the same 10 hours??

THanks in advance...

 

[Dave]

Hey All,
i am working on MSP for some time and i got a small issue,suppose
if i have a task of 10 hours duration and a resource assignment for 10
hours and now i increase the task duration to 15 hours,is there any
way my assignemnt duraion remains the same 10 hours??

THanks in advance...

Make the task type fixed work.

 

[Moorthy]

Make the task type fixed work.

sorry for the silly question....but i am unable to find the tasktype
field ??
where is this field and at which level??? and more over can i see that
in the xml of the project???
bcos i am using xml

 

[Steve House]

Do you mean the assignment DURATION or the assignment WORK (ie, man-hours)?
Duration is length of time measure the resource is working on the task,
Because "duration" is the time between the moment work is first done on the
task and the moment when it is last done, for a task with only one resource
the resource's duration will always be equal to the task's duration and vice
versa. The WORK, OTOH, can be less. Your resource could be doing 10
man-hours of work over 15 hours of duration, hence be assigned at 66.7%

 

[Jim Aksel]

Ditto on what Steve said. Please do not confuse work and duration which are
two different things. I can do 10hours of work with a duration of 5 days (40
hours) with an assigned units of 25%.

To directly address your question on <XML>

Task types (fixed work or units or duration) can be found on the advanced
tab of the project information dialog box. Select the Task Information icon
from the toolbar or double click on a task. Pull the advanced tab.

In the XML output, task type is contained under <Tasks><Task> and the field
is <Type>n<Type> where n is an integer representing Task Type
0=Fixed Units
1=Fixed Duration
2=Fixed Work

Tasks may also be <EffortDriven>
0=Non-effort driven task
1=Task is effort driven
A fixed work task is effort driven by default and cannot be changed by
project...careful if you are changing that in the XML. I did this
investigation using Project2007 Prof, you will need to look carefully for
your specific version of Project although I expect these two fields did not
change.

Further information about task types and effort driven status is available
in "Help"
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