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From: ellebelle on 17 Mar 2010 03:40
I would like to use Leveling (or similar) to delete work days from a lower
priority task when there is an overallocation. ie. The start Date and End
Date are fixed but the Work changes to reolve the conflict.

Is this possible?
From: Jan De Messemaeker on 17 Mar 2010 04:28
Hi,

Sorry but there is no function in the Scheduling engine that will do that.
Leveling will only delay work if necessary to resolve overallocations, never
change work or units.
HTH

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"ellebelle" <ellebelle(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C52A8A4A-0A9D-45F2-892E-635B29D2F5A2(a)microsoft.com...
>I would like to use Leveling (or similar) to delete work days from a lower
> priority task when there is an overallocation. ie. The start Date and End
> Date are fixed but the Work changes to reolve the conflict.
>
> Is this possible?


From: "Steve House" sjhouse at hotmail dot on 17 Mar 2010 05:27
The start and end dates of a task are generally a consequence of the amount
of work that is required in order to complete the deliverable, not the other
way around. The way you describe it, the start and end dates are fixed in
stone and it doesn't matter how much or how little actual productive output
needs to be achieved between them. I'm not saying this is impossible but it
is incredibly rare.
--
Steve House
MS Project Trainer & Consultant


"ellebelle" <ellebelle(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C52A8A4A-0A9D-45F2-892E-635B29D2F5A2(a)microsoft.com...
>I would like to use Leveling (or similar) to delete work days from a lower
> priority task when there is an overallocation. ie. The start Date and End
> Date are fixed but the Work changes to reolve the conflict.
>
> Is this possible?

From: ellebelle on 23 Mar 2010 09:39
the start and end dates are fixed. If the work is longer than their
availiblity then I have to reconcile that by putting somebody else on the job
as a separate task. I track this by making sure my overall total of work days
matches what I expect it to take.

do you know of a macro that could run to do this for me?


"Steve House" wrote:

> The start and end dates of a task are generally a consequence of the amount
> of work that is required in order to complete the deliverable, not the other
> way around. The way you describe it, the start and end dates are fixed in
> stone and it doesn't matter how much or how little actual productive output
> needs to be achieved between them. I'm not saying this is impossible but it
> is incredibly rare.
> --
> Steve House
> MS Project Trainer & Consultant
>
>
> "ellebelle" <ellebelle(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C52A8A4A-0A9D-45F2-892E-635B29D2F5A2(a)microsoft.com...
> >I would like to use Leveling (or similar) to delete work days from a lower
> > priority task when there is an overallocation. ie. The start Date and End
> > Date are fixed but the Work changes to reolve the conflict.
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> .
>
From: "Steve House" sjhouse at hotmail dot on 24 Mar 2010 05:20
No, leveling doesn't do that. All leveling does is slide a task in the
schedule, delaying it until it's clear of the higher priority task.

Remember Project is designed to calculate for you the task start and end
dates you can have, not merely document the dates you want.
--
Steve House
MS Project Trainer & Consultant


"ellebelle" <ellebelle(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> the start and end dates are fixed. If the work is longer than their
> availiblity then I have to reconcile that by putting somebody else on the
> job
> as a separate task. I track this by making sure my overall total of work
> days
> matches what I expect it to take.
>
> do you know of a macro that could run to do this for me?
>
>
> "Steve House" wrote:
>
>> The start and end dates of a task are generally a consequence of the
>> amount
>> of work that is required in order to complete the deliverable, not the
>> other
>> way around. The way you describe it, the start and end dates are fixed
>> in
>> stone and it doesn't matter how much or how little actual productive
>> output
>> needs to be achieved between them. I'm not saying this is impossible but
>> it
>> is incredibly rare.
>> --
>> Steve House
>> MS Project Trainer & Consultant
>>
>>
>> "ellebelle" <ellebelle(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C52A8A4A-0A9D-45F2-892E-635B29D2F5A2(a)microsoft.com...
>> >I would like to use Leveling (or similar) to delete work days from a
>> >lower
>> > priority task when there is an overallocation. ie. The start Date and
>> > End
>> > Date are fixed but the Work changes to reolve the conflict.
>> >
>> > Is this possible?
>>
>> .
>>

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