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From: Ste.be on 8 Feb 2010 08:45 Is it possible to make a task appear multiple times in a ms project view? I want to make a plan which integrates an engineering plan with a production plan. I can insert them to a master plan, and then group by area, but I would like to make certain engineering tasks appear multiple times. For example: The calculation of load bearing structure is a prerequisite both for "concrete wing A" and "concrete wing B". I want to group by wing and then get area: Wing A -Load bearing structure -Concrete wing A area: Wing B -Load bearing structure -Concrete wing B Anyone know if this is possible? Another solution would be if the "group by"-function could sort by multiple criterias. For the example, I would get the groups "all + wing A" and "all + wing B" where engineering tasks would be categorized as "all". Thankful for any advice!
From: Dale Howard [MVP] on 8 Feb 2010 10:39 Ste.be -- You need to manually add the task in each section of the project. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] VP of Educational Services msProjectExperts http://www.msprojectexperts.com http://www.projectserverexperts.com "We write the books on Project Server" "Ste.be" <Ste.be(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3DC28DF3-3FD7-462C-A50F-DE8B2A2C1C95(a)microsoft.com... > Is it possible to make a task appear multiple times in a ms project view? > I want to make a plan which integrates an engineering plan with a > production > plan. I can insert them to a master plan, and then group by area, but I > would > like to make certain engineering tasks appear multiple times. > For example: The calculation of load bearing structure is a prerequisite > both for "concrete wing A" and "concrete wing B". I want to group by wing > and > then get > > area: Wing A > -Load bearing structure > -Concrete wing A > > area: Wing B > -Load bearing structure > -Concrete wing B > > Anyone know if this is possible? > > Another solution would be if the "group by"-function could sort by > multiple > criterias. For the example, I would get the groups "all + wing A" and "all > + > wing B" where engineering tasks would be categorized as "all". > > Thankful for any advice!
From: John on 8 Feb 2010 11:51 In article <3DC28DF3-3FD7-462C-A50F-DE8B2A2C1C95(a)microsoft.com>, Ste.be <Ste.be(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Is it possible to make a task appear multiple times in a ms project view? > I want to make a plan which integrates an engineering plan with a production > plan. I can insert them to a master plan, and then group by area, but I would > like to make certain engineering tasks appear multiple times. > For example: The calculation of load bearing structure is a prerequisite > both for "concrete wing A" and "concrete wing B". I want to group by wing and > then get > > area: Wing A > -Load bearing structure > -Concrete wing A > > area: Wing B > -Load bearing structure > -Concrete wing B > > Anyone know if this is possible? > > Another solution would be if the "group by"-function could sort by multiple > criterias. For the example, I would get the groups "all + wing A" and "all + > wing B" where engineering tasks would be categorized as "all". > > Thankful for any advice! Ste.be, Just keep in mind that each task in a project is unique, no two are exactly alike. In your example there are two "load bearing structure" tasks. Although they both have the same description one is the load bearing calculation for wing A and the other is a similar task for wing B. This may seem like a trivial point but if you want to sort or group your file to see all the structural calculation tasks, you would get a whole list of tasks with the same description and unless a summary line was included in the sort/group, the user could not distinguish one calculation task from another. Another suggestion. All performance tasks should be stated in action verb format. For example you could show the two tasks as: "Calculate load structure for wing A" "Calculate load structure for wing B" Hope this helps. John Project MVP
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