Suppressing Task IDs on Printouts

Tony, I fully understand your problem.

My way of solving it : I use one text field to number as I want ( even including kinds of "codes" the same way of Promavera), than a second text for the "descrition" and the third column to "concatenate" columns 1 and 2.

Last step being to copy that last result in the column "name" (coz you can not customize that field.

So, you have YOUR numbering AND it appears in all the normal "forms".

You just have not to forget to refresh the "name" if you modify or add some activities. (to be sure, a very simple macro can do it, or you just copy/paste the whole columns.

As with Primavera, have your own codification in the numbering can easily allow you to filter or sort on it !

Hello all,

MS P is using the ID field just like MS Excel does: as this field shows the row nbr, it cannot get out of sequence, you cannot renumber it, you cannot do anything with it.

The Unique ID field shows the order in which you have added tasks in the project, this field is never renumbered and MS P will not re-use the Unique ID of a deleted task.

If you want to add text to the so called task ID, you will edit the WBS or Index field; this is the only way to obtain task IDs being numbered every 10 numbers.

Alexandre

Methinks you which to have your cake and eat it too. The Unique ID is just that, a primary key for the Task entity. Forcing it to be in sequence would defeat the purpose, as it is strictly a sequence number to identify the row the task is stored in, not the task itself. It is a handy way to identify that row (task) in the database and no other, but if you want tasks to be in order, you pretty much have to accept the fact that the task numbers are going to get out of synch periodically.



Last time I used Primavera, you had to do all the numbering yourself, and renumber everything if you ran out of room, which to me isn’t that much better.



Perhaps if you train people to refer to the deliverable in the WBS and then the actual task under that deliverable, you might have better luck. Or write your own custom WBS structure and use that. (I’ve never used the WBS feature in Project, as it’s fairly new, to my knowledge, but it might be worth a try.)



Larry

Andre,

It’s possible to make custom form acting as standard form.

you need a good programmer. I’ve tried using custom events (checking the current selected task every 0.3 second, if it changes, then raise a event, the custom form catches the event and update the form accordingly. I hope there’s other way to do it, as i know this is not a effecitve way),anyway it work. I made a custom form to show preds of a selected task with a * in front of the pred ID to show it’s a driving pred. as in P3. and no need to call task by task.



BTW the custom form i mentioned is not the custom form in the menu "tools->Customize->forms" but the form build in VBA

Hi andre, tony,



Maybe I have not explained myself clearly. I was proposing to use the Unique ID with conjunction with the addition of text using the customize field formula. In other words, it’s the same as using a custom text field but using the Unique ID for easy referencing.



Ex. Unique ID - 34

Added text using formula lets say ADD

/: Activity ID(Text1) = ADD34



Just a matter of curiosity guys.



I’m not sure about what Tony said if you add/delete activity it becomes out of sequence. Is there a use for this? Tony, could you explain further.



For andre, could you explain what’s the use of putting the Unique ID in the standard forms. I’m completely lost on this.



Cheers,



Se

Andre,

At that point, you pretty much have to hide the column and live with it, I’m afraid, unless someone else has another idea.



Larry

1. Remember, we (Tony and myself) don’t like to use this "unique ID"

2. The "custom forms" are also a pain in the neck, as you have to "call" them task by task

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Pardon my french and some of my spelling alexandre. I’m trying to learn it but I find it quite difficult specially the pronounciation part and listening to it.



Au revoir,



Se

Hello all,

how complicated are you!

1. Open View, Table, More tables,

2. Select the table being associated to the Gantt chart you want top print

3. Click Edit if you want to change this table for good, or Copy if you prefer to keep both the original and a modified table

4. Suppress the ID field and insert the Unique ID field instead; be carefull to keep the option "Lock 1st column" ticked

That’s all

Alexandre

Hi Andre,



Just a matter of curiosity, why do you need to put it standard forms? BTW, you can insert the Unique ID field to a customize form using the customize form feature.



Cheers,



Se

The problem is that this "unique ID" is a complete mess, and do not appear in the standard "forms" (predecessors, successors, ....

I also use the unique ID then use the customize field formula option to add text to the unique ID.



Cheers,



Se

There is also a Unique Task ID field that never changes. I ran into this also during planning sessions.



Larry

As a result, I have had problems with people referring to task IDs

YES, THAT’S A [Deleted by Moderator] SYSTEM IN MSP;



I am proposing to use one of the text fields to give each task a "permanent" ID number

SHOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU INCLUDE IT IN "NAME" OF TASK.



to remove the automatic Task ID field from the printouts, but cannot find a way to do this.

JUST REDUCE THE COLUMN WIDTH TO "0", NO ?



Any suggestions from other MSP2000 users will be appreciated

USE 2003 !