Status,
I went to the "Task Usage" view.
Then used the magnifying glass (-) minus and was able to view
it
monthly.
Originally the task was supposed to take 16 hours (2d).
So I went and put in 32 hours for "Betty" working on this task
(ie
Task2).
The hours changed and the "Duration" stayed at 2 days.
I went back to the "Gantt Chart" and saw Betty's name as:
Betty[200%].
My assumption is that the 32 hours were compressed to the 2
days
duration.
In essence having Betty work 16 hours per day. I thought it
would
have
automatically changed the duration to 4 days or 8 hours per day
(working
hours).
-jp
:
If you change the timescale in that view (use the magnifying
glass icon with
a - in the middle) to weeks or months, project will take what
you
enter and
spread it smoothly across that period. So if there were only
hours per week,
set the timescale to show weeks and then enter the number.
-Jack Dahlgren
:
Hi Julie,
I wish I could collect task information daily. However,
these
resources do
not work for me and its very hard to get info from them.
The
best I got was
a total # of hours for the task.
So, when I go to the "Task Usage" I see 2 windows:
on the left window I see:
Task_Name
Resource_1_name
Resource_2_name
on the right window I see:
Days of the week as follow: M, T, W, TH, F.
if it was possible and they gave me hours per day and week.
I could put them in the right window on the days of the week
and MS-Project
would know that that's a running total of hours for that
task?
Do I have it correct?
-jaime
:
Hello jp,
I suggest going to the Task Usage or Resource Usage view
and
record
on a weekly basis the estimate of how many hours Betty
worked
in
Actual Work. The first recorded actual work will set the
Task
Actual start date (assuming Betty is the only resource
assigned) and
the last date should set the Actual Finish date. Make
sure
there
is no work to the right of the task or set the Remaining
Work
to
zero as needed.
I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.
Julie
Project MVP
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information about Microsoft Project
I have resources working on various tasks and here is my
question:
A resource ie "Betty" has told me she has completed her
task.
However,
she began sometime in early July of this year and has
worked on
this task
on and off due to other project priorities.
So in essence the task has taken about 1 month to
complete
and
"Betty" has
put in 32 hours of work to complete this work.
Q: How would I record this info in ms project? Thank
you.
-jp
