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What role have the columns named Number1 to Number20?
What role have the columns named Number1 to Number20?
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The columns "Number1"…"Number20" are designed for customized use. The name shows the data type it accepts.
What means an outline symbol presenting a plus sign?
What means an outline symbol presenting a plus sign?
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An outline symbol presenting a plus sign indicates a summary task with its subtasks hidden.
What means an outline symbol presenting a minus sign?
What means an outline symbol presenting a minus sign?
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An outline symbol presenting a minus sign indicates a summary task with its subtasks showing.
What is Workflow State field?
What is Workflow State field?
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The Workflow State field indicates a selected proposal or project's current workflow state—for example, Waiting For Approval or Completed. This field is a component of the Microsoft Project Server workflow framework.
What is Workflow Stage Name field?
What is Workflow Stage Name field?
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The Workflow Stage Name field specifies the current workflow stage name for a selected project. A stage represents a single step within a project life cycle, and one or more stages can make up a workflow phase. This field is a component of the Microsoft Project Server workflow framework.
What is Workflow Stage Info field?
What is Workflow Stage Info field?
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The Workflow Stage Info field describes the current workflow stage for a selected project. A stage represents a single step within a project life cycle, and one or more stages can make up a workflow phase. This field is a component of the Microsoft Project Server workflow framework.
What is Workflow Phase Name field?
What is Workflow Phase Name field?
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The Workflow Phase Name field specifies the current workflow phase for a selected project. A phase represents a collection of stages grouped together to identify a common set of activities in the project life cycle. Typical workflow phases are Create, Select, Plan, and Manage, although these phase names may be customized. This field is a component of the Microsoft Project Server workflow framework.
What is Work Variance field?
What is Work Variance field?
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The Work Variance field contains the difference between baseline work of a task, resource, or assignment and the currently scheduled work.
What is Work field?
What is Work field?
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The Work field shows the total time scheduled on a task for all assigned resources, the total time to which a resource is scheduled on all assigned tasks, or the total amount of time scheduled for a resource on a task.
What is Work Contour field?
What is Work Contour field?
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The Work Contour field provides choices for the contour shape to use for the resources assigned to a task.
What is Work Availability field?
What is Work Availability field?
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The Work Availability field contains the maximum time a work resource is available to be scheduled for work during any selected time period, as distributed over time.
What is Windows User Account field?
What is Windows User Account field?
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The Windows User Account field contains the Microsoft Windows user name that you enter for a work resource.
What is WBS Successors field?
What is WBS Successors field?
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The WBS Successors field lists the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes associated with the successor tasks.
What is WBS Predecessors field?
What is WBS Predecessors field?
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The WBS Predecessors field lists the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes associated with the predecessor tasks on which the task depends before it can start or finish.
What is WBS field?
What is WBS field?
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The WBS field contains work breakdown structure (WBS) codes, which are alphanumeric codes you can use to represent the associated task's position in the hierarchical structure of the project.
What is Warning field?
What is Warning field?
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The Warning field indicates whether Microsoft Project has identified a potential scheduling conflict with a manually scheduled task's start date, finish date, or duration, for example, a problem with a task link or a date constraint. The information with the potential problem is underlined in red. You can then right-click the field to read the warning or suggestion to improve the project.
What is VAC field?
What is VAC field?
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The VAC field shows the variance at completion (VAC), which is the difference between the budgeted at completion (BAC) or baseline cost and estimated at completion (EAC) cost for a task, resource, or assignment on a task.
What is Update Needed field?
What is Update Needed field?
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The Update Needed field indicates whether a Project Server update should be sent to the assigned team members because of changes to a task's start date, finish date, or assignments.
What is Unit Availability field?
What is Unit Availability field?
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The Unit Availability field contains the percentage or number of maximum units that a work resource is available to accomplish on any tasks during any selected time period, as distributed over time.
What is Unique ID Successors field?
What is Unique ID Successors field?
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The Unique ID Successors field lists the unique ID numbers for the successor tasks to a task.
What is Unique ID Predecessors field?
What is Unique ID Predecessors field?
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The Unique ID Predecessors field lists the unique ID numbers for the predecessor tasks on which a task depends before it can be started or finished.
What is Unique ID field?
What is Unique ID field?
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The Unique ID field contains the number that Project automatically designates whenever a new task, resource, or assignment is created in the current project.
What is Type field?
What is Type field?
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The Type field provides choices that control the effect that editing work, assignment units, or duration has on the calculations of the other two fields.
What is top-down organize method?
What is top-down organize method?
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Organize tasks using the top-down method, you identify the major phases first and then break the phases down into individual tasks.
The top-down method gives you a version of the plan as soon as you decide on the major phases.
What is the risk field?
What is the risk field?
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The Risk field is a custom field (of type Outline Code) that offers you the possibility to specify the risk level of a certain task. You can choose which custom field to be used as Risk field in the Options dialog.
