Hard and Soft Dependencies
Most problems (or opportunities of course) arise from customer queries; really, if it wasn’t for you guys keeping me on my toes I would just spend everyday cycling…. Some days I combine Project and Project Server with cycling…. Anyway, I digress; one of my customers wanted a way to differentiate between mandatory and discretionary (or […]
Exporting tasks from Project into your Outlook calendar
This is something that in the past I have done manually, but due to a discussion on a Web2.0 application somewhere I had the idea that it would be possible to semi automate this. <Update 8th October 2014 – this is now available as a fully fledged and supported add-in to Project – see here> […]
How to automatically change the colour of a task name
This requirement came from a customer more as a general query rather than a full demand, but I thought it should be an interesting enough problem to invest some time in. Changing the font, colour, or any of the other options available under Format | Text Styles can only be done automatically for a certain […]
Automatically setting the task Publish field to No
If you’re using assignments for team members, you’ll have noticed that completed assignments still appear on the My Tasks page, even when the resource has updated the task and the task is 100% complete. This causes confusion for resources, and consternation for clients in general. Completed assignments disappear after the pre-requisite number of days (30 […]