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Dear all,
I am coming from Microsoft Project world (which a lot of people consider not a proper scheduling tool) and I am looking now for alternatives.
I have a discussion about Spider Project tool functionality on this forum.
http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/spider-project/530450/tracking-progress-spider#comment-75696
It appears, that with all obvious to me really cool features of Spider, which I have discovered so far (e.g powerful resource leveling engine; automatic resource assignments based on skills, where one resource may have many skills etc) the tool is not really designed for the situation, where the progress on different tasks is updated on different dates. In another words, once in a tracking stage of a schedule, you have to have actual data entered for all tasks till exactly the same date, before you can press reschedule button. If this is not done, then the tool will just move all of the activities (or remainder of activities), for which there is no progress to start after the latest Data Date available in the tracking database.
It does not have, what I call, “let us assume, that tasks with no progress entered are still on schedule ” functionality . The tool has paradigm, that you have to update all tasks till exactly the same date before you can plan anything further
Obviously there are some ways available to bypass this, but these are more tricks, than recommended ways of working.
Just wondering, how is it done in Asta?
Note: there are a lot of pictures, which illustrate the story, if you follow the link, which I put at the beginning of the post
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Mike,
my question was not so much in relation to whether it can be entered, but how does Asta handles this, once you have to reschedule your schedule in the situation, when one task has been updated with the actual data up until Monday, another up until Wednesday and today if Friday?
Hi Evgeny
You can set any number of Progress Up To dates and only enter progress on the tasks that are relevant.
A filter plus the copy paste operation makes it very simple.
You can give the drop lines different colours and titles.
Best regards
Mike Testro
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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