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From: Terri on 9 Feb 2010 08:51
Thank You Everyone for the help

"Steve House" wrote:

> Additional notes ...
>
> When the task is Fixed Work and you edit Work hours, it behaves as if it was
> Fixed Units and duration changes.
> When the Task is Fixed Duration and you edit Duration hours, it behaves as
> if it was Fixed Units and work changes.
> When the task is Fixed Units and you edit Units, it behaves as if it was
> Fixed Work and duration changes.
>
> --
> Steve House
> MS Project Trainer & Consultant
>
>
> "Terri" <Terri(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5335A162-CE30-4443-A443-1B0D2798BB08(a)microsoft.com...
> > Using MSP 2007
> >
> > I was added to a project that is in the proposal stage and took over an
> > existing schedule.
> >
> > The original scheduler had it as fixed units, and did a preliminary
> > resource
> > loading. Now the estimates have changed and I need to adjust the hours.
> > I
> > want it to be fixed work and let the duration calculate based on amount of
> > work. I did change all the task types to fixed work and then started
> > adjusting the hours.
> >
> > My question, (I may not even have to worry about it, but it is bugging me)
> > is when I adjust the hours on a resource using the gant chart view, split
> > window, task details form on bottom split, the units are adjusting for
> > some
> > resources, but for some it is staying at whatever the unit percentage was
> > there prior to the adjustment or is changing to 100% for less that 100%
> > effot.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > Total work for the activity is 120 hours split over 3 resources 100 hours
> > for 1 and 10 hours each for the other 2.
> >
> > The 100 hours is giving me 12.5 day duration, since this is engineering, I
> > am allowing some float so I adjust the duration to 15 days. This reduced
> > the
> > units for the 100 hours correctly to 83% the other two are staying at 100%
> > which I would have expected to see 8% on. Is there an explanation why
> > some
> > units adjust correctly while other stay where they were prior to the
> > adjustments?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> >
> >
>
> .
>
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