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MS Project 2002 vs MS Project 2003

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Mon, 2007-02-12 02:28
Rodel Marasigan
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Is any body aware of this issue? A project done in MS Project 2003 and open on MS Project 2002 has a different result end-date after re-scheduling? I try to resolve the issue by changing calendar or working time but it seems no effect. I open it again in MS Project 2003 and re-schedule and give me back to original end-date again. I also convert it to P3e and give me different end-date again. The problem is the client using MS Project 2002 and having different end-date on my submission. If anybody aware of this and know the causes kindly advise and it’s very much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance RCM PCMgr UGL QLD, AUST
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Mon, 2007-02-26 21:58
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Rodel Marasigan
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Hi Paul,

I do same exercise of what you did on MSP2002 & MSP2003 and gave me different result as shown below.

MSP 2003 result
Task Name     Duration     Start          Finish          Predecessor      (Calendar)
Sample      3d     Tue 27/02/07     Thu 1/03/07     
Act1          1d     Tue 27/02/07     Tue 27/02/07                    Standard
Act 2          1d     Thu 1/03/07     Thu 1/03/07          2FS+5d          24hr

MSP 2002 result
Task Name     Duration     Start          Finish          Predecessor (Calendar)
Sample      6d     Tue 27/02/07     Tue 7/03/07     
Act 1          1d     Tue 27/02/07     Mon 27/02/07                    Standard
Act 2          1d     Mon 6/03/07     Tue 7/03/07          2FS+5d          24hr

It clearly shows that MSP2003 used successors calendar on relationship lag while MSP2002 used predecessor’s calendar.

I try to contact you but unfortunately I did not manage to get through.

Regards,

Rodel
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Thu, 2007-02-22 08:29
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Paul Harris
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I have just run some tests with 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000 versions.

I have found that by adding 2 tasks of 1 day duration and setting the second task to a 24 hour calendar and connecting the two tasks with a FS +5D that 2007, 2003, 2002 calculate on the successor calendar and 2000 on the project calendar as set in the project overview form.

Rodel, give me a call sometime to discuss, 04 1118 7701.

Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting
www.eh.com.au
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Tue, 2007-02-20 09:39
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Rodel Marasigan
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After a thorough review on programme and logic comparing MSP2002 and MSP2003 I arrive on a conclusion that the main cause of the different output is because of the relationship calendar lag duration used are different from each other. MSP2002 uses the predecessor’s calendar on lag while MSP2003 use the successor’s calendar.

P3e/ PM5 have an option to select which calendar to be used on lag before re-scheduling.

Regards,
Rodel
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Tue, 2007-02-20 07:02
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Charleston-Joseph...
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Hi Alex,

At present, I don’t have files in MSP2003. A colleague of mine from previous collaboration loaded MSP2003 in my laptop and we used to prepare our proposal in MSP and P3, but the final submission was in P3.

So my laptop got corrupted and was re-formatted. There was no partition so all files gone.

I come to know about this differences because I read books MSP2003.

so i cannot sent you any files.

regards,

Charlie
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Mon, 2007-02-12 03:35
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Charleston-Joseph...
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Rodel,

Do the best you can to acquire same version of MS project as the client.

Otherwise, you have to live with the same problem that repeat and repeat until completion of your project.

This is because it is very clear in MS Project 2003 that the new version is totally different from previous versions.

Cheers

Charlie
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