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Power BI and Microsoft Project – Getting the Data!

By: Collin Quiring As seen on MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) at this link: https://www.mpug.com/articles/power-bi-got-you-puzzled/ Using Microsoft Project Online or Project Server is commonplace for many Project Managers and report writers alike.... (more...)

Task Types and Order of Entry

BY: Collin Quiring Microsoft Project has a built-in formula that helps Project Managers when they enter time for a Resource’s work. The difficulty is that the Task Type affects how that formula acts and is affected by the order of entry (Resource... (more...)

Intimidator Group – Case Study

BY: Collin Quiring Tim Gryder has been helping the Intimidator Group (https://intimidatorutv.com/ ) with their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation.  A few months after the implementation, and with the direct assistance from Microsoft Dynamics... (more...)

Microsoft Project Custom Field Limiter (Not Limit)

BY: Collin Quiring Custom fields in Microsoft Project (Online, Server, Professional or Standard) have a limit of 255 characters.  However, I recently had a request from a client that went the other way – they wanted to put their own limit on a... (more...)

Power BI Content Pack for Project Online

In case you missed the announcement – there is a new Project Online Content Pack for Power BI. It was released October 26 and can be downloaded here: https://app.powerbi.com/groups/me/getdata/services/project-online The reports are (as excerpted... (more...)

Baseline, No Baseline

BY: Collin Quiring We recently ran across an interesting situation where a schedule has a baseline, but, in the Set Baseline pop up box, there is no indication of a baseline ever being saved.  Is this a bug?  I don’t think it is a bug as much as it... (more...)

Project External Linking – Another Method

BY: Collin Quiring Just a quick note on another way to link tasks from different schedules.  We have talked about this a few times with a few different twists, here, here and here.  As with many things Microsoft, there are multiple ways to do something... (more...)

Accepting External Links

BY: Collin Quiring We recently ran into a slight issue with the ability to accept External Links in a Microsoft Project file. We were using Project Professional with Project Server. But, this works the same in Project Online. And, in this case, we had... (more...)

Removing the Hammock Task – The Un-Hammock

By:  Collin Quiring In a previous entry we explained how to make a task span a time period based upon other tasks’ durations or start/finish dates.  This is called a Hammock task.  That link can be found here –https://epmstrategy.com/microsoft-project-the-hammock-task/... (more...)

Maintain your Enterprise Template Formatting

BY: Collin Quiring An ongoing issue with Project Professional and creating templates is losing any custom formatting that you might spend your time and effort on when creating those templates.  There are a couple potential work-arounds that can get cumbersome... (more...)

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