Re: New user question

Kurt Maute wrote:

>There's no current feature in MrProject that would allow you to set up a
>recurring task.  I haven't seen it in other PM tools either (but maybe
>that's because I haven't looked).
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Or maybe I'm not using the right tool for what I'm doing.

>I'm curious as to what sort of task you want to set up as recurring?
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Every other Saturday (which is another problem) I have to place a call 
to reserve a spot in a show. But before I do that, I have to make sure 
thata certain tasks are completed beforehand.

>There are several ways of handing a part time task.  You could set it up
>as fixed duration if its something you're waiting on a vendor for but
>requires some work, or you could set it up as a fixed amount of work and
>when you assign a resource to it, you could limit the resource units
>(expressed as a percent of the person's time), and the duration would be
>calculated.
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Hmmm.... Ok. I was wondering, If I say that a task needs 100 days to be 
completed and after 50 days, only 30% of the work has been done, will 
MrP automatically push the date back? How does percentage completed 
affect the Gantt chart? For example, I started something that takes 12 
weeks to complete, but now I have to suspend that task for a few weeks. 
Once I restart it, the end date will be pushed back (I can't speed it 
up. It's a time sensitive thing and it really takes 12 weeks. No, I'm 
not an alcoholic...).

>>    * Some of my tasks have to be completed on a certain date. Is there
>>      a constraint that allows doing this?
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>There doesn't seem to be, but you could use the fixed duration option as
>a workaround.  Of course, it won't calculate the start date based on the
>amount of work, so you'll need to check that manually for now.
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Ok, thanks.

>>    * Can I create keyboard shortcuts for the most common tasks? Like
>>      Ctrl-I or Insert to insert a new task, Alt-arrow to move up, down
>>      or (un)indent.
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>AFAIK, only the predefined keyboard shortcuts are available right now. 
>Sounds like a good idea, though.
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Doesn't GNOME support that as part of the platform?  I seem to remember 
that there was an option that could be used to do that.

>It might be a good idea to enter some of these enhancement requests in
>bugzilla - more likely to get attention from the codefactory folks that
>way:  http://bugzilla.codefactory.se/
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>I hope this helps.
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Yes, thanks for the reply!

L

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