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Mon, 2007-09-10 06:59
Sarah Henderson
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Hi everyone - I’m a very new user of P3e, and am hoping for a bit of advice please.

I want to set a bar with individual markers for monthly meetings, instead of one long bar. Is this possible in P3e and if so, how???
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Tue, 2007-09-11 08:15
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Sarah Henderson
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Sue, I owe you chocolate - that worked a treat!

Thanks ever so much...I would NEVER have figured that out on my own.

Regards,
Sarah
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Tue, 2007-09-11 06:41
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Susan Young
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If you are looking for a visual effect then there is a possibility by following steps:

1) Create a seperate WBS level where u wish to have the activity titled " bimonthly meetings"
2) create a "Level of Effort" activity called Bi weekly meetings
3) Add milestone activities for all dates you expect meetings to be held & link it suitably to LOE activity.
4) Under bar settings for LOE activity & milestones, Check "show bar when collapsed"
5) Schedule & minimise the WBS.

You should be able to see a long bar with milestones superimposed.

Hope it helps

Sue
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Tue, 2007-09-11 05:44
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Sarah Henderson
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Thanks Oliver for the reply.

I’ve only done on-the-job training, working from a manual which we happen to have in the office. The programme I am trying to create is only for visual effect, to be included in a bid we are tendering. I was hoping to be able to provide a linear chain of meetings on one line called "bimonthly meetings" rather than a visual staircase of linked meetings. I thought I had seen this effect on other plans, and presumed I could do it in P3E. Apparently not!
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Tue, 2007-09-11 04:07
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Oliver Melling
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Sarah,

Meetings can be planned in 2 ways.

1* With the budget against a ’Level of Effort’ activity. This means that when the data date moves along you will automatically claim performance against the budget you set aside for meetings.

2* As meetings are individual tasks, you can insert an activity of 1 day duration (or whatever duration the meeting will be) for each meeting you intend to hold. This will give you a chain of meetings driven by lag relationships (i.e. bi-weekly meetings) or by other activities in the programme. You can also split one activity into sperate parts.

Have you done any formal training on P3e yet?

Oliver
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