Re: Effort driven fixed duration task

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Thank you Mike for your reply.


"Mike Glen" ha scritto:

> 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.)
>
> FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
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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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