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Predecessors status on the same view

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Fri, 2005-05-13 04:47
Álvaro Gómez
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Hi,

I am using MSP 2000 and my question is the following:

I made a combined view which shows on the upper side a table with the pending tasks for a resource, and on the lower side the resource graph.

The main user of this view needs to see, next to each task, his predecessors and the status of them on a quick an visual way.

I tried with the Relationship Diagram, but it only shows the predecessors and sucessors, not their status (I only need if the task is completed or not).

is this possible?

Thanks.

Álvaro Gómez
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Fri, 2005-05-27 00:42
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Zhang Haixiang
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some activities may have more than one predecessor,you should think about how to sort by preducessors’ status.
I think you can save the project as Access database,then do it in ACCESS,it is more powerful than PROJECT for data processing.
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Tue, 2005-05-17 09:31
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Álvaro Gómez
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Thanks all,

my idea is to visualize the predecessors status in a column, in order to sort the tasks by this predecessors status (first 100% complete, next 0%). On this way, the user could see quickly the work which really can be started.

I am still trying different methods to solve this problem, such as macros Alexandre suggest.

Regards.

Álvaro.
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Tue, 2005-05-17 01:56
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Raj Maurya
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Alvaro,
Why are you not trying with Network diagram? I think that will help you to show the progress as well. Only thing you need to filter the required activity.
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Mon, 2005-05-16 07:56
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Philip Jonker
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Hi, I did not say zero slack, but the slack should be blank, ie no value in the column.
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Fri, 2005-05-13 12:01
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Philip Jonker
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The normal way to see if an activity is completed, is to look at the float, or slack as referred to in MPS, I do not recall if they have this function. If the slack is blank, the activity is completed
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