[MS Project 2007] remaining work, in the time, grouped by custom f

[daniele]

Tool : MS Project 2007

I have a custom text field for activities (Text1 named "Job Card"...or "Job
order").
Each activity has its values ("Job Card X"..."Job Card Y"...).

Issue : I need remaining work, for each remaining months, grupped by Text1.

In "Manage Activities" view (is it its name? sorry my MS Project is in
Italian) I can group by "Text1"...see the time dimension in the table (on the
right)...but in the attributes that I can choose, there'is NOT "remaining
work", only Work and Actual Work...so I must copy/past all in Excel and
MANUALLY calculating the values that I need.

Other solution : use automatic report. I added Text1 in custom field of the
report (for "Remaining Resource Work") but in the pivot of Excel I don't see
Text1....in other tentatives I see Text1 but I cannot pivot for Time.

I think that this issue is general...can anyone help me?

Thank you!
db

 

[JulieS]

Hello Daniele,

If it is any consolation, you are not doing anything incorrectly.
The remaining work field is not available directly as a timescaled
field. You're correct, you can show it in the left (table) side of
the Resource or Task Usage view, but not specifically in the
timescaled portion.

As far as custom fields like Text1, no, sorry they are timescaled
either. So although you can add the Text1 field as a report
attribute, you won't see that data in the timescaled pivot.

Sorry, I wish I had better news for you.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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