Project provide way to identify driving predecessor (* maybe?)

[honcho]

Project should provide a way to identify the driving prececessor and
successor in the task details form or entry form. At first I thought it was
the first one on the list, but that was not the case. Perhaps the driving
pred/succ could be bold or have an asterick (*) beside it. If more than one,
show multiple identifiers.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Honcho ,

Microsoft are seldom active in these newsgroups, so why not tell Microsoft
directly at this site: http://tinyurl.com/6oaw3


Mike Glen
MS Project MVP




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[Haixiang]

it will be very nice to add FF/TF in task details form

 

[honcho]

Thanks Mike for the address. I did post / submit it as you suggested. Do you
know if there is a way to identify the driving relationship? By the way what
is "MVP"?

Neill

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Honcho,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

MVP=Most Valuable Professional see this
site:http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?LN=EN-US&x=6&y=11

The simplest way to see which is the driving resource is to split the screen
form the Gantt Chart view, and in the bottom pane, just increase the units
of a resource. If the Duration reduces, it is the driving resource. This
is further explaned in at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax
ezine, particularly #10 - Multiple Resource Assignments, 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
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Neill Jones]

Hey Mike,

Actually I was looking for the driving task, schedule wise, not driving
resource. My schedule is not resource loaded.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Neill,

Sorry - my mind must have been on another tack!

There is an undocumented feature that might help, though, unfortunately for
what you want it works in reverse! Still, it might be worth experimenting.


In a split screen, with network diagram view on top and the
task sheet view on the bottom, on the network diagram, select
an appropriate task. Press and hold the shift key then
select the task again. All successor tasks will be then be
selected and therefore will appear on the Task Sheet, where you can insert
other columns if it helps.


Mike Glen
Project MVP