gantt: How to put activities in a row?

[Bernd Brenner]

Hello Project Users,

I have a question about the gantt view:

When I enter lets say 10 Activities with all a length of 2 days, is
there a MS-Project function or

feature which sets the dates AUTOMATICALLY in a continous row like
this:

act1 ----
act2 ----
act3 ----
act4 ----
..
..
..


?

I don't want to use the link function, so I don't want to link one
activity to the next one (so there would be appearing arrows). There is
no dependency amoung the activies, so that's why. I still want to be
free to move the activites around.

Thanks for any hint,
Bernd from Munich

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Bernd,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I'm not sure why you would want tasks to appear thus, but if you assign a
resource to all of them and then level, you'll see what you want.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Merf]

Another option could be to highlight the finish date for task 1 then use
paste special to paste a link into the start date for task 2 then repeat for
other tasks.

Hope this helps

 

[Bernd Brenner]

Hi Mike,

thanks for you help!

I do not understand exactly what you mean with "level". Could you
please explain this? I assigned now all acitivies to a ressource. What
would be the next step?

I have a project with possibly only one person working on it. I want
first to list the acitivies with duration and then see (after putting
the activies in a row), how long one person will work on it. Then I
will see if my plan would exceed the milestones and decide to get a
second person to work on it.
Thats why I want the activities automatically be set in a row.

I could use the "link" function and link one activity to the next. But
I do not want to use this feature because there is no real dependency
between the acitivies.

Regards,
Bernd

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

The next step is Tools, Level Resources (or in other versions Resource
Leveling)
HTH

 

[Bernd Brenner]

Hello Mike and Jan,

thanks a lot that is exactly what I have been searching for!

For german users: The menu is called "Extras" -> "Kapazitätsabgleich".

Bernd

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Bernd

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #5 on Resources, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Vielen Dank Bernd,

gerade heute bekomme ich de-ie Frage ob ich auch einen Kurs auf Deutsch
geben könnte und jetzt weiiss ich die Antwort: Nein leider, ich ^wüsset eben
nicht wass Kapzitätsabgleich war...
)

Gruesse,

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
"Bernd Brenner" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Hello Mike and Jan,

thanks a lot that is exactly what I have been searching for!

For german users: The menu is called "Extras" -> "Kapazitätsabgleich".

Bernd