Customizing fields

[MalkiaSashko]

Hello,

I am writing in reference to Trevor Rabey's suggestion from my previous
post to use a text field, customizing it to use a lookup table, for
displaying resources in the task sheet. This is a great advice and fits
exactly my needs. I renamed the field, created a lookup table with the
resources. The only problem I encountered so far is that I can't have
several values in that field. I want to have pretty much the effect I
get in the Resources field, where the different resources are separated
by a coma. However, in the custom field, when I choose an entry from the
drop-down list, than put a coma after it and choose another item again,
it replaces the first one instead of adding the second one to the field
(as would have happened in the Resources field). I checked the "Allow
additional item to be entered into the fields" option in the Edit Lookup
Table dialog box, but this only allows me to use text outside of the
lookup table and I still can't use commas. This problem is not too bad
for me as I could just create a couple of more custom fields and use the
same lookup table, but am curious if it's possible to do it with one
field. Thank you!

 

[Rob Schneider]

MalkiaSashko,

Text fields have lookup, but not multi choice lookups AFAIK.

Why don't you just use Project as designed and use the resource
assignment fields (which allow the multi-selection).

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[JulieS]

Hello MalkiaSashko,

The only multi-value field with a drop-down in Project is the
Resource Names field. You'll either need to create several fields
with the same lookup list or add additional entries for all possible
combinations of the values in the lookup list.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information about Microsoft Project

 

[MalkiaSashko]

Hello JulieS,

Yes, I thought of the two solutions that you proposed. I think I wil
use the second one (entering the possible combinations). Actually, thi
is not so bad, as I could leave the list as it is now. In the cases whe
I have several resources, I just enter them and separate them not with
coma, but with a /. This way the entry will be automatically remembere
in the list and I could use it the next time a similar task comes.

Thank you for the advice

P.S. I don't know why but I get the email notifications for poste
replies with more than a 15-minute delay

 

[JulieS]

You're most welcome.

As to the notifications, the web site has been not working well for
several weeks now -- posts not showing, notifications arriving late
or not at all.

Julie