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From: KingKikapu on 24 Nov 2009 14:16 I use the resource usage view with an applied grouping that groups our resources based on our company two level resource outline code. This works great in summarizing our costs, so this view is the one I use for our budget reports (I collapse everything to the outline code summary level and print to PDF with the intent of emailing it to the respective parties). Overall it is a good system. My only problem is sometimes there are notes explaining any large cost variances (at the assignment level), but there is no way to write these at the grouping summary levels (project won't let you). I would like to show some of these notes, but I do not want to print the report with everything open as they quickly get overwhelmed with details. I want to be able to print the view to PDF and MAINTAIN accessibility to the expand/collapse function. I know Kidasa Milestones 2008 has something like this, but the program is admittely a mess. Is there a way to implement this, or does anybody know of an app that produces this sort of functionality? Many Thanks -- KingKikapu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KingKikapu's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/119086.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/1274689.htm http://forums.techarena.in
From: Jack Dahlgren MVP on 25 Nov 2009 12:03 There is no PDF writer which does this. I think that exporting to excel might give you the ability to group and collapse, but it would not be collapsed by default. -Jack Dahlgren "KingKikapu" <KingKikapu.4266rb(a)DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:KingKikapu.4266rb(a)DoNotSpam.com... > > I use the resource usage view with an applied grouping that groups our > resources based on our company two level resource outline code. This > works great in summarizing our costs, so this view is the one I use for > our budget reports (I collapse everything to the outline code summary > level and print to PDF with the intent of emailing it to the respective > parties). Overall it is a good system. > > My only problem is sometimes there are notes explaining any large cost > variances (at the assignment level), but there is no way to write these > at the grouping summary levels (project won't let you). I would like to > show some of these notes, but I do not want to print the report with > everything open as they quickly get overwhelmed with details. I want to > be able to print the view to PDF and MAINTAIN accessibility to the > expand/collapse function. > > I know Kidasa Milestones 2008 has something like this, but the program > is admittely a mess. Is there a way to implement this, or does anybody > know of an app that produces this sort of functionality? > > Many Thanks > > > -- > KingKikapu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > KingKikapu's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/119086.htm > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/1274689.htm > > http://forums.techarena.in >
From: KingKikapu on 25 Nov 2009 12:31 Damn you WYSIWYG! What about some sort of HTML export? Exporting to excel makes for a formatting mess. -- KingKikapu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KingKikapu's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/119086.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/1274689.htm http://forums.techarena.in
From: KingKikapu on 25 Nov 2009 14:27 Alright thanks for your suggestions gentlemen. I will have to find another way to succintly report without presenting full access to the Project files. -- KingKikapu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KingKikapu's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/119086.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/1274689.htm http://forums.techarena.in
From: JulieS on 25 Nov 2009 15:52
Hello KingKakapu, You may find one of the third party project viewers (Housatonic, Seavus, Steelray) might work for your users. See: http://project.mvps.org/comprods.htm for a list of companion products. If you search the page for "project viewer" you'll hit upon several. I hope this helps. Julie Project MVP Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information about Microsoft Project "KingKikapu" <KingKikapu.42847b(a)DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:KingKikapu.42847b(a)DoNotSpam.com... > > Alright thanks for your suggestions gentlemen. > > > I will have to find another way to succintly report without > presenting > full access to the Project files. > > > -- > KingKikapu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > KingKikapu's Profile: > http://forums.techarena.in/members/119086.htm > View this thread: > http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/1274689.htm > > http://forums.techarena.in > |