Re: Effort driven fixed duration task

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Hi Michele,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You need to make the Task Type Fixed Work to achieve what you want.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #11 on Task Types, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site, :)
Thanks.)

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Michele wrote:
> I have a fixed duration effort driven task with one resource
> assigned.(2 days of duration and 8 hours of work)
> I want to create another assignment for the same task, but with an
> amount of work equal to 2 hours so that the first assignment need to
> work only for 6 hours.
> (that's what i understand about the definition of effort driven task)
> I know i can do that manually using the bottom pane of any of the
> tasks views split window and digiting 2 hours of work for the second
> assignment and 8 hours for the first but, in my opinion, there
> should be the possibility to associate to the second assignment, as
> soon as you're creating it, 2 hours of work and Project should than
> calculate the remaining work of 6 hours for the first assignment.(If
> i create the second assignment in a window split and i digit 2 hours
> of work without changing the work hours of the first assignment, the
> total amount of work becomes 10 hours and not 8 like it should be
> since the task is effort driven!!!!)
> Why isn't that possible, and if it is how can i achieve that?
> Really Thanks a lot
> Michele



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