PLACE HOLDER "GENERIC TASK" (PLANNED) VS ACTUAL SPECIFIC TASK RECO

[Mike Oberneder]

My MS Project file, has a "Technical Support" task (generic place holder)
that spans the complete fiscal year (1 Oct 07 thru 30 Sept 08). This rolls
up with the other, project tasks into an overall budget. I want to be able
to keep this initial plan, perhaps as a Baseline. Yet, I want to add
specific tasks in the rows underneath the "Technical Support" row, that are
specific tasks we've done under the "Technical Support" category. Of course
any "task" (row) I add to the Project, will increase the rolled up cost at
the top of the program, since my original generic line "Technical Support"
and the newly entered specific task are BOTH counted. How do I keep my
planned program (before entering specific actual tasks), so that I know how
much time I planned for my team members, yet be able to add in these specific
technical support tasks, without increasing my overall program cost? As it
is, I'm counting BOTH, my planned Technical Support (1 Oct 07 through 30 Sept
08), and the individual tasks I'm capturing in the rows below this generic
place holder.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Mike Oberneder

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Mike,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I can't think of a simple way to do this. Any solution must result in
adding the new task and subtracting the equivalent from the TS task. I
think I would enter the new tasks and use the Resource Usage view to
transfer the hours from the TS task to each new task as it arises. The TS
task will then have gaps co-incident with each task. At least this will
prevent double accounting.

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