Dear all,
I’m trying to do a Procurement Schedule calculated by customized/calculated fields in MS Project (2000). Based on a milestone value called “Material Required on Site”, I want to have e.g. a duration called “Lead In Time”, one named “Approval of Design by Employer” and last one named “Design” and then show all these 3 durations (in different colors) + plus the milestone on the same line in the bar chart. All this is back-calculated from the milestone value (“Required on Site”).
Definition of the milestone is given by the normal “Start/Finish”-value and the rest is defined by “Duration/Start/ Finish 1”, “Duration/Start/ Finish 2", and “Duration/Start/ Finish 3”-values and then the same values defined under “Bar Styles”.
No problem getting the desired result on the bar chart when I manually enter the misc. start/finish values, however, when using calculated fields it starts to do funny things.
“Finish 3” is defined as “Finish-1” (day before) which gives correct result, but “Start 3” is defined as “Finish 3” minus “Duration 3” and here the fun starts. If “Duration 3” is 1 week, then “Start 3” should be one week before “Finish 3”, however when writing my formula as [Finish 3] – [Duration 3] is gives me a date that is located some 8 years, 2 months and x days before.
How do I write my formula correct for the calculated field of “Start 3” so the result will be a week before “Finish 3” based on the “Duration 3”-value?
Thanks,
Bo
I’m trying to do a Procurement Schedule calculated by customized/calculated fields in MS Project (2000). Based on a milestone value called “Material Required on Site”, I want to have e.g. a duration called “Lead In Time”, one named “Approval of Design by Employer” and last one named “Design” and then show all these 3 durations (in different colors) + plus the milestone on the same line in the bar chart. All this is back-calculated from the milestone value (“Required on Site”).
Definition of the milestone is given by the normal “Start/Finish”-value and the rest is defined by “Duration/Start/ Finish 1”, “Duration/Start/ Finish 2", and “Duration/Start/ Finish 3”-values and then the same values defined under “Bar Styles”.
No problem getting the desired result on the bar chart when I manually enter the misc. start/finish values, however, when using calculated fields it starts to do funny things.
“Finish 3” is defined as “Finish-1” (day before) which gives correct result, but “Start 3” is defined as “Finish 3” minus “Duration 3” and here the fun starts. If “Duration 3” is 1 week, then “Start 3” should be one week before “Finish 3”, however when writing my formula as [Finish 3] – [Duration 3] is gives me a date that is located some 8 years, 2 months and x days before.
How do I write my formula correct for the calculated field of “Start 3” so the result will be a week before “Finish 3” based on the “Duration 3”-value?
Thanks,
Bo