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Project schedule APIs provide the ability to perform create, update, and delete operations with Scheduling entities. These entities are managed through the Scheduling engine in Project for the web. Create, update, and delete operations with Scheduling entities were restricted in earlier Dynamics 365 Project Operations releases.
Unlike all other project scheduling APIs that update an entity, the resource assignment contour API is solely responsible for updates to a single field, msdyn_plannedwork, on a single entity, msydn_resourceassignment.
In this scenario, you create a project, a team member, four tasks, and two resource assignments. Next, you update one task, update the project, update a resource assignment contour, delete one task, delete one resource assignment, and create a task dependency.
I needed to do some higher-level project planning that doesn't really fit into the workflow of our day-to-day task management tools (FogBugz and whiteboards), so I figured I'd give MS Project a whirl (it being free through MSDN).
Fine so far. The problem is that, except in those relatively rare instances where tasks are linked (most of the work involved can be done in any order), all of the tasks are scheduled to run concurrently. What I'd like to do is have Project figure out some scheduling scenario based upon:
You can ostensibly have Project automatically reschedule things as tasks are added, edited, etc., but I suspect that would result in chaos, as there's nothing about the resource leveling process that makes me think it's "stable" (e.g. that two levelings performed back-to-back wouldn't yield the same schedule).
It would be nice if Project would "fully allocate" whatever people you have configured, so that you don't have to assign people to tasks just to have those tasks scheduled in a way that is consistent, if not correct. Any thoughts on that front would be most welcome.
That seems (and feels!) like a lot of work, but I think the result is relatively decent -- a super-high-level view of a project that allows for a high degree of day to day flexibility, but still affords one a way to reasonably make plans around "interdisciplinary" activities (e.g. once this is done, we need to buy those four servers, make sure our legal stuff is taken care of, and pull the trigger on that marketing push one week later, etc).
I have created a simple project (at this stage), but I have noticed, with automatic scheduling that MS project has left a few day 'gap' in a particular resource's scheduled time. See image for 'Isaac':
It is simplest to have one calendar assigned to all tasks in a schedule. This is why the default in Microsoft Project is to assign all tasks the project calendar. This makes sense, because generally all work in a project is performed using one work week schedule, perhaps an 8-hour per day five day work week schedule or a 10-hour per day four day work week schedule.
There are, however, many situations when it is appropriate to assign a task a unique task calendar. It is possible to make unique calendar assignments to individual tasks in a Microsoft Project schedule.
This is a piping repair and improvement project. Note that the task calendar column shows that all activities are currently assigned none for the task calendar. This means that all tasks are currently scheduled using the project calendar.
By default, Microsoft Project schedules tasks using the project calendar. However, it is possible to assign a unique task calendar in Microsoft Project to a specific task. If the task calendar setting is none then Microsoft Project schedules that task using the project calendar.
Assigning a task a unique task calendar is as simple as displaying the task calendar column and selecting a calendar from a drop down list of calendars for your respective task. In this way the scheduler can assign a calendar to an individual task for modeling unique efforts, such as the curing of concrete.
Hello, today I'm very happy to have connected a BI report directly to my project schedule located in my Project Center for the first time. But there's just one major problem, which is that the query doesn't bring in the custom columns that my team established.
Hi @collinq , I was able to determine that the field in the schedule, though custom, is local to the .pbix file. Only enterprise fields are available to the Power BI query when connected to Project Online. My next task is to build the new enterprise field in the schedule file, populate it, and republish.
Hi , thanks so much for your reply. I concur that the project schedule data is in the Tasks table, but the are zero custom columns brought into my model. Neither does "Team" appear in the list of columns nor does the custom category name appear (as we are not actually labeling it "team").
Thanks again! I followed along your advice and swapped your variant for the source step, and although this still produced the schedule data table successfully, the columns available are no different from before. I'm very intrigued about the possibilities at the source step all the same.
When connecting Power BI to Project and pulling back a project file the custom fields are listed in the list of available fields. If Team Name is at task level, the field will appear inthe Tasks table. Like this example, the first two fields I have are custom fields in the Tasks table.
Each project has a project plan board with a very simple waterfall task list with over 100+ tasks. Very simple, FS setup as my account does not have the dependency type options or leads/logs (very basic functions?).
There has to be a better way to do this. Is there a way (with formulas or automations) where if I have dependencies and durations completed for all 100+ tasks, that when I enter the first task date in the waterfall, it will automatically add dates to all tasks from project start to finish?
Once a board is created, select all of your items and pick a date for the simple date column (any date will work). The automation will take several seconds to run on large boards. The change in duration column will trigger Monday to automatically assign dates in your timeline column based on dependencies and durations. Note: any item without a dependency will be scheduled to start on the current day. Strict scheduling will allow you to change the start date if needed.
We have a standard project schedule template created with durations and dependencies preset, including a sample project start date (e.g. 1/1/2023). After copying the template and entering the actual project start date (e.g. 2/12/2024) we would expect that date change to update the entire project schedule. Unfortunately, this is not working and the project schedule dates must be manually updated.
It is very common for project managers and schedulers to start with a schedule and wrestle through some of the obvious scheduling choices, but if you want the fewest amount of clicks avoid this common mistake in schedule creation.
Typically in creating a schedule we want to link activities together. And by clicking, typing or double clicking, you are presented with several choices for establishing a relationship. In this next diagram, you will see a relationship type called Start to Finish.
The idea is that the Start of a Task will trigger the finish of another task. If you were building your schedule, you would be listing the Finish Date as Row #1, then linking the next to the last Task as the second row in our schedule.
This would leave you with the Finish of your Project Schedule in Row #1 with the following rows evolving to the beginning of your schedule which may be Row #279. As you can see with this next diagram, it is NOT the easiest to manage a schedule with going forward, let alone follow and progress.
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As a default, the Always use Plug Days when updating InEight Estimate from the schedule checkbox is not selected (on a job by job basis, this box can be checked later for jobs in which an estimator does not want updates from Microsoft Project to change the duration and therefore the cost of your cost items in InEight Estimate)
Before you can integrate with Microsoft Project, your cost items need to be marked as Scheduled in InEight Estimate. This is done on the Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) Register. From your Saved Views drop-down list in the CBS, the Schedule Setup View displays all of your schedule-related columns. There are a couple to keep in mind when you schedule your items:
Now that you have set up your schedule to integrate with Microsoft Project in Job Properties and scheduled your cost items in the CBS, you are ready to send your project information to Microsoft Project.
Make sure the Schedule Plug Days checkbox is selected on the Excavate RCP Trench cost item, and then enter a Plug Days duration for the number of days the item will be scheduled in Primavera (7 days).
While there have been challenges to its rule, and many who have surpassed it, Microsoft remains a giant in this industry. No discussion of project management software would be complete without including Microsoft Project.
Many argue that this pricing structure is not convenient for many teams because prices can go up exponentially as you add team members. There are many Microsoft Project alternatives in the market such as ProjectManager, which have the same project portfolio management features for less.
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