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Project 2007 changes my 2003 durations??

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Mon, 2006-12-04 13:15
Mark Wells
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I’ve just installed MSproject 2007 which I got because of the unlimited undo’s feature.

I opened a project in Microsoft Office Project 2007 that I created in Microsoft Office Project 2003 and started to edit it. I deleted an existing task and the durations of a number of other tasks changed, even though I didn’t make any changes that would affect their duration.

I should explain that this happens only tasks where I have:

A fixed duration constraint
A number of days duration (in this case 14)
0 hrs work
A cost entered in the cost column (in this case £500)

I set these tasks up like this to represent jobs which where being carried out by a 3rd party. In this example our supplier had quoted 14 days to carry out the job and given a cost of £500. I assigned 0 hrs work to the task because I don’t know how many working hours the supplier will actually spend working on my job but I do know the job will be ready to collect after a 14 day time period and want this to show on the project schedule.

2007 won’t let me set the task at 14 days duration and leave the work at 0 hours. Can anyone help???

Thank you

Regards
Mark
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Mon, 2006-12-04 13:44
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Mark Wells
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MS have added a new resource type ’cost’ this appears to give the same affect as my work around. You create the task with a pounds cost in the cost column and duration and then assign the supplier (who you have set as a ’cost’ type resource) to the task and it automatically set the works hours to 0 (it even locks you out of the work column). Good Stuff!!!
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