Recurring Task

[The Old Bloke]

I have just started using Project 2007 and have very little knowledge of
it..

I want to have a recurring task, but the task recurs at varying intervals,
say 10 days then 7 days then 3 days etc. ie not weekly or monthly. How can
this be done?

Regards
Doug

 

[Dave]

You will have to manually move the dates of the repeated elements. As
there is no algorithmic method of stipulating how the dates fall,
Project cannot be expected to automate it (or import the dates from some
other document containing them).

 

[The Old Bloke]

Please realise that Project is new to me. No, I don't expect an algorithmic
method. Dave, let me tell you what I want to do. I am tracking patients
and their medications. Medications and their duration is easily entered as
a task. Then as a single task, I want to enter the dates that the patient
has consulted the doctor. I would like to enter doctor's visit as a single
task with multiple entries/dates.

Thanks for your help

Regards
Doug

 

[Dave]

I'll help as much as I can but I don't fully understand what you are
trying to do with the application or what you hope it might give you.

Please note that there is an error in the last sentence of my original
reply. I had meant to say that if you have a list of dates in another
file, they can potentially be imported. However I suspect you want
something simpler.

I don't fully understand the structure of your project (and am not
actually sure whether or not there really is a project in the way that
people on here use the term).

Anyway, if as summary tasks you had the patients names, you could have a
list of the mediations and their durations under the patients names as
tasks much as you describe. You could then enter the dates on which the
visitor had consulted the doctor as milestones (or separate 0 duration
tasks) for each of the dates a visit was made.

Can I ask what you are actually trying to achieve with this application.
From what you describe you are simply documenting medication duration
and overlaying that on a consultation history of doctor's visits. As
such, that could be achieved with a myriad of applications (Visio, Word,
PowerPoint, Excel and so on). So I suspect that there is something more
to your end objective that I haven't grasped.

Sorry if this doesn't help you much, but if you give more information
then I'll have another stab.

Dave

 

[The Old Bloke]

Hi Dave,

I am not using Project for any planning purpose, but I am documenting what
has happened. I particularly like to present this in a timeline date
presentation as is done by Project. I am looking for interactions between
cocktails of drugs that some people take. The Project timeline display
works best for me.

Entering each medication as a new Task is fine, as are the symptoms.

I want the consultation date displayed, but so far I have been able to do
this only by having each consultation as a new task. What I want is a
single task called Consultation with a short bar at the date of each
consultation.

None of this data is digital. And there is only one patient, me. I have a
two month trial of Project 2007.

I never seem to explain myself well. -

Thank you for helping,
Doug

I'll help as much as I can but I don't fully understand what you are
trying to do with the application or what you hope it might give you.

Please note that there is an error in the last sentence of my original
reply. I had meant to say that if you have a list of dates in another
file, they can potentially be imported. However I suspect you want
something simpler.

I don't fully understand the structure of your project (and am not
actually sure whether or not there really is a project in the way that
people on here use the term).

Anyway, if as summary tasks you had the patients names, you could have a
list of the mediations and their durations under the patients names as
tasks much as you describe. You could then enter the dates on which the
visitor had consulted the doctor as milestones (or separate 0 duration
tasks) for each of the dates a visit was made.

Can I ask what you are actually trying to achieve with this application.
From what you describe you are simply documenting medication duration and
overlaying that on a consultation history of doctor's visits. As such,
that could be achieved with a myriad of applications (Visio, Word,
PowerPoint, Excel and so on). So I suspect that there is something more
to your end objective that I haven't grasped.

Sorry if this doesn't help you much, but if you give more information then
I'll have another stab.

Dave

SNIP

 

[CB]

Select View/Task Usage and enter time in the grid for the day of the occurance.

 

[Dave]

You could do something with bar styles potentially. How about you
create a summary task for all the appointments. Now under the summary
bar you enter each of the dates as separate tasks. You can now roll up
these tasks to the summary level and that will give you a bar spanning
the visits.

If you now double click on the task name and then navigate to the
General tab, you will see an option to "Roll up Gantt bar to summary"
and checking that causes the visit dates to be highlighted on the
summary level bar.

Hope this helps.

Dave

 

[Dave]

I should add that if you then go to edit bar styles, then you can get
exactly what you want. For example from Format/bar styles, find the
entry for rolled up tasks/milestones and then navigate to the text tab
and choose the text entries you want from the drop down boxes.

You will probably have to change the order of the elements in the table
or at least the colours prudently or you will find that the actual
summary bar overwrites the text.

 

[The Old Bloke]

Many thanks Dave. I now have what I want thanks to your help. Very much
appreciated!

Regards,
Doug