act. start, finish and duration

[Alexander Barvinsky]

Hi,
could anybody give me advise how I can enter actual information about task
which started e.g. on Monday, actually finished on Friday, but duration of
them is 4 hours? In base plan it planned as started on Monday and finished on
Monday. Developer start it as planned, do 50% and can't work for 4 days.
Duration at the and still 4 hours, but act. finished at Friday. When I
entered in tracking view actual start and finish MSP automatically define
duration as 40 hrs. How to fix it?

Alerxander Barvinsky
Director of Operations Department

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Alexander --

If you are manually entering the actuals in the Microsoft Project plan, you
could use the Task Usage view for this purpose. Apply the view, then
right-click in the timephased grid and apply the Actual Work details. Enter
2 hours on Monday and 2 hours on Friday. Click View - Table - More Tables
and adjust the Remaining Work to 0 hours. Hope this helps.

 

[Alexander Barvinsky]

Thanks! But you wrote "Click View - Table - More Tables" and which table I
could use?

If you are manually entering the actuals in the Microsoft Project plan, you
could use the Task Usage view for this purpose. Apply the view, then
right-click in the timephased grid and apply the Actual Work details. Enter
2 hours on Monday and 2 hours on Friday. Click View - Table - More Tables
and adjust the Remaining Work to 0 hours. Hope this helps.

Alerxander Barvinsky
Director of Operations Department

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Alexander --

Oops! The step should have read: Click View - Table - Work and adjust the
Remaining Work to 0 hours. Hope this helps.

 

[Alexander Barvinsky]

Thank's!!!
But another one question. I entered all as you wrote: actual cost 24 hrs,
remaining work - 0hrs. But after applying Gantt chart view - work field is 32
hrs. Cost of task is correct and calculated as 24 * rate per hour. Why 32?

Alexander --

Oops! The step should have read: Click View - Table - Work and adjust the
Remaining Work to 0 hours. Hope this helps.

Alerxander Barvinsky
Director of Operations Department

 

[Alexander Barvinsky]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:24:46 +0300, Alexander Barvinsky <> wrote:

Sorry, I mean duration field (not work)

Thank's!!!
But another one question. I entered all as you wrote: actual cost 24 hrs,
remaining work - 0hrs. But after applying Gantt chart view - work field is 32
hrs. Cost of task is correct and calculated as 24 * rate per hour. Why 32?

Alerxander Barvinsky
Director of Operations Department

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Alexander --

Did you enter the 8 hours of Actual Work in the timephased grid
(yellow/white timesheet) on the right side of the Task Usage view? You
should have entered 4 hours on Monday, 4 hours on Friday, and then reduced
the Remaining Work to 0 hours.

 

[Alexander Barvinsky]

Yes, I did it as you wrote. Act. work is 8 hrs, and cost is calculated as
8*rate per hr But field Duration show 32 hrs. May be semantic of Duration is
not clear for me..

Alexander --

Did you enter the 8 hours of Actual Work in the timephased grid
(yellow/white timesheet) on the right side of the Task Usage view? You
should have entered 4 hours on Monday, 4 hours on Friday, and then reduced
the Remaining Work to 0 hours.

Alerxander Barvinsky
Director of Operations Department