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H

Hardip

Hi All

Have played around with Visual Reports and I am warming to the new feature
following numerous visits to this forum, searching google and
watching/reading some interesting online tutorials.

I guess visual reports is crying out for someone to write a more advanced
paper or perhaps creating some commercially available templates that extend
the current reports.

Any thoughts?

Cheers, H
 
R

Rob Schneider

Perhaps that's what's in Project 2010 that will be shown to people at
the Microsoft Project Conference in September? Probably some material
on Project 2010 on the internet now.

There are a some products already out there that does more advanced
things. See a list at http://project.mvps.org/comprods.htm

Also, since the data is "open" in Project (via VBA, exporting, etc.)
it's easy to get the data out into what form one wants to "munge" into
bespoke views.

--rms
 
H

Hardip

Hi Rob

I've been to the site already following a recommendation by Julie - actually
I've been there a few times. Your site is a great resource and much
apreciated by intermediate users like me (am I a beginner or intermediate -
lol).

That's where I found Decision Edge which is a great product. I'm
considering purpose it but the user interface isn't very intuitive (in my
opinion). I've trialed the product and find it hard to consolidate reporting
anomolies with the Project data. By comparison I managed to do some analysis
between Visual Reports and Project and found the differences faster. I guess
its a matter of greater familiarisation with the interface and what the
product is doing under the hood in terms of DecisionEdge.

It's a shame the DecisionEdge team don't have a threaded discussion forum
for users of the product (or even those that are interested). I'm willing to
buy the support and need to confirm what the support model is. However, you
can't beat a community of like minded individuals that just enjoy extending
and expanding the product much like you guys here :)

I also liked the product that creates the swim lanes and moving timelines in
flash - good stuff but very expensive ($700+) and there some great products
that capture and document the WBS's. As I became a more senior PM I walked
away from Project (allowing schedulers to do the work) and now I'm back using
it I have to say its a great tool that's mostly under used and more often
than not purely used by PM's. Something of the things I've been doing has
turned heads and its all native functionality - just goes to show really.

I feel that in Visual Reports MS have provided a more integrated charting
feature that I understand in terms of its relationship to the core data. As
I'm not a VBA man, customising the office suite isn't really an option. So I
(like many others) rely upon experts to customise and commercialise add-ons.

That's it for me. Fingers crossed for MS Project 2010 - very high hopes
here when it comes to the charting options and functionality. Like I always
say to my teams "its a solution waiting to happen". Whats the release date
for 2010?

Cheers, H
 
R

Rob Schneider

How did you find my site?

I don't know much at all about Project 2010, but will surely get
over-dosed on it at the conference.

--rms
 

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