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Checking for conflicts

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Thu, 2006-07-06 05:04
Julian Coetzee
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Good Day

Can anyone help me with checking for conflicts. I want to run a group or filter to check if any tasks are conflicting with regard to a specific resource such as civils etc.

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Fri, 2006-07-07 02:35
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James Griffiths
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Julian,

Sorry I couldn’t get back to you yesterday; the system wouldn’t allow access.

The way I tend to group-by, is by using the Text 1, Text 2, etc. columns - depending upon how many sub-groups you want to use. You can customise the title of the Text column via Tools>Customise>Fields.

In each text cell, you define the group name for the particular activity and then type it in the text cell. Do this for all activities. If you have thousands of activities, it can be a bit time-consuming, but technically it is very straight-forward.

Go to Project>Group By>More Groups>New, and there is your window to format the order of the Text column groupings. Having done it once, it’s surprisingly easy.

Have a go!

James.
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Fri, 2006-07-07 02:24
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Chris Oggham
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Hi Julian,

Asking the obvious I know, but have you tried using the online help facility to see if that will jog your memory?

Chris Oggham
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Thu, 2006-07-06 07:35
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Julian Coetzee
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Howzit James!

The problem is I can’t remeber exactly how I did it last, as it was quite a while back.

He! He!
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Thu, 2006-07-06 06:38
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James Griffiths
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Julian,

Please forgive if I’m being a bit slow - but if you’ve used the grouping function before, then why not use it again? :-)

You’re quite right in that the use of the group-by function is a perfectly good way of achieving your objective. Again, it will give you a good visual. I’ve used the group-by function quite extensively, so if further assistance is required, please feel free to ask.

Cheers.

James
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Thu, 2006-07-06 06:25
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Julian Coetzee
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Howzit James

I understand what you mean, but I have in the past used a grouping function in MS when applied groups everything together. You can clearly see where conflicts are occuring.

Regards

Cheers!
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Thu, 2006-07-06 06:20
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James Griffiths
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Julian,

Please could you expand a little on your requirements.

As you are probably aware, the "conflicts" are usually ironed-out by applying appropriate logic whilst compiling the programme. Doing this, of course depends upon knowing what the task conflicts are likely to be in the first place. However, in most of my instances, I apply a filter to the task name. By visually inspecting the result you can see when, and how many of such potentially conflicting tasks occur in parallel. Be a little careful, though, because you can have lots of the same tasks running in parallel, but each at a low level of effort. As long as the sum of all the work does not exceed the resource availability, then you have no conflict.

If further clarification is required, or I’ve misinterpreted your question, please let me know.

Cheers.

James.
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