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MS Project 2010 - Insert a New Task
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Reply Thu 9 Sep 2010, 16:23Delegate Jon said...
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MS Project 2010 - Insert a New Task
I sometimes need to insert a task at late notice, this new task is fixed re: start date and end date. I'd like this to autosplit the task/s it interrupts. If there's a macro I could use to do this or some internal functionality I could use - this would be excellent.
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RE: MS Project 2010 - Insert a New Task
Hi Jon
Thank you for your question - there isn't an autosplit function that I'm aware of. The MSDN website has a programming reference guide that explores the changes in Project 2010 and might be a good place to start.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee758031.aspx
I hope this helps - do let us know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards,
Andrew
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Reply Fri 17 Sep 2010, 13:28Delegate Jon said...
RE: MS Project 2010 - Insert a New Task
Thanks Andrew, as we discussed (in person) as a development team specialist I'm sure we could work this out for ourselves, I was just optimistic that I wasn't alone in this requirement and therefore someone else may have found a solution that works already. (This could potentially save us a lot of development time).
But heres my current thinking:
If I was to insert it as non-working time - this would lengthen the duration of a task which is more or less the same result - I can categorise my non-working time and presumably report on it by it's category.
Here's the bit of info I probably should have mentioned; this "interrupting task" is typically non-development so it doesn't have to be recorded/tracked or planned in the same way as the original plan - so doing it as non-working time would work for me. Having said that I could still plan for it - my issue then becomes - how can I see different types of non-working time highlighted differently on the plan - currently it's all one format on screen isn't it?
So my conclusion is: I would *LOVE* to see different non-working time formatted differently - such that weekends can keep the default of grey (if I wanted) and holidays are a different colour, sickness a third colour, and these interrupting tasks a fourth colour (obviously there could be more potentially). This would be perfectissimo!
RE: MS Project 2010 - Insert a New Task
Hi Jon
Thanks for your reply and further info. Here is an article from the Microsoft Project Server blog. Project server 2010 has a "non-project working time" feature called administrative time that can be categorised. Is this closer to the features you are looking for (bearing in mind it does depend on Project Server 2010)?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2009/02/13/administrative-time-explained.aspx
Kind regards,
Andrew
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