Limits of Project 2007

[Ed3]

I am a project manager for a large commercial sign company and I am
researching Project as a way to track our production. Each order is like a
project unto itself, but we also share resources, production, installation,
etc. We currently have over 120 projects underway at some stage or another.
I want to know what would be the (project total) limits and how would we go
about integrating Project into our environment?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Ed,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Is this what you want?

Specifications:

Note Out-of-memory errors may occur before you reach the listed limits.
Attribute Maximum
Resources per project 700,000
Resource units per assignment 60,000,000 units or 6,000,000,000%
Resource availability dates 100
Tasks per project 400,000
Task dependencies per project No limit
Predecessors per task 50,000
Successors per task 50,000
Outline levels per project 65,535
Consolidated projects 998
Open project files per consolidated project 998
Sharer files connected to a single resource pool 997
(That is, the maximum number of open project files, minus 1 for the
resource pool itself.)

Open windows 50
Base calendars Tested to 30,000+
Calendar exceptions per calendar Testing was able to add more than
15,000 exceptions to a base calendar.
Rate tables to support varying pay scales and rates 5 per resource
Variable rates per rate table to support rate increases and decreases
25
Cost value in a currency field 999,999,999,999.99
Work value 1,666,666,666 hours
Assignment work values for work assignments 999,999,999 hours
Assignment work values for variable material assignments 999,999,999
units
Assignment work values for fixed material assignments 60,000,000 units
Custom cell formats 64,000
Print scaling adjustment range percentage 10%-500%
Page header text 5 lines
Page footer text 3 lines
Page legend text 3 lines
Page legend text box width 5 inches (12.7 centimeters)
Filter tests per filter 40
Filter tests per AutoFilter 2 per column
Earliest date allowed for calculation January 1, 1984
Latest date allowed for calculation December 31, 2049
Discontinuous selections in a sheet view 10
Baselines 11
Characters in a text field 255
Characters in an outline code field 255
Values and characters in an Enterprise Resource Multi-Value (ERMV)
field 255 values, each of 255 characters
Value in a number field 9,999,999,999,999.99


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
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Mike,

This list doesn't show how many projects server can handle. It is far above
the 120 noted in the last post.
One thing is that performance is dependent on hardware (memory, server,
network ...)

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Jack,

True, but he didn't mention servers as such.

Ed : If you plan to use Project Server, then try posting on the server
newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion
products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web
address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

This can indeed work well without Server.
The PRACTICAL limit is that opening such a resource pool with 120 projects
attached may take something like 5-10 minutes and hence is best to be doen
only once a day.
HTH

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