MS Project 2002 vs MS Project 2003

Submitted by Rodel Marasigan on
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Submitted by Rodel Marasigan on Mon, 2007-02-26 21:58
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Hi Paul,



I do same exercise of what you did on MSP2002 & MSP2003 and gave me different result as shown below.



MSP 2003 result

Task Name     Duration     Start          Finish          Predecessor      (Calendar)

Sample      3d     Tue 27/02/07     Thu 1/03/07     

Act1          1d     Tue 27/02/07     Tue 27/02/07                    Standard

Act 2          1d     Thu 1/03/07     Thu 1/03/07          2FS+5d          24hr



MSP 2002 result

Task Name     Duration     Start          Finish          Predecessor (Calendar)

Sample      6d     Tue 27/02/07     Tue 7/03/07     

Act 1          1d     Tue 27/02/07     Mon 27/02/07                    Standard

Act 2          1d     Mon 6/03/07     Tue 7/03/07          2FS+5d          24hr



It clearly shows that MSP2003 used successors calendar on relationship lag while MSP2002 used predecessor’s calendar.



I try to contact you but unfortunately I did not manage to get through.



Regards,



Rodel

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Submitted by Paul Harris on Thu, 2007-02-22 08:29
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I have just run some tests with 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000 versions.



I have found that by adding 2 tasks of 1 day duration and setting the second task to a 24 hour calendar and connecting the two tasks with a FS +5D that 2007, 2003, 2002 calculate on the successor calendar and 2000 on the project calendar as set in the project overview form.



Rodel, give me a call sometime to discuss, 04 1118 7701.



Paul E Harris

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Submitted by Rodel Marasigan on Tue, 2007-02-20 09:39
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After a thorough review on programme and logic comparing MSP2002 and MSP2003 I arrive on a conclusion that the main cause of the different output is because of the relationship calendar lag duration used are different from each other. MSP2002 uses the predecessor’s calendar on lag while MSP2003 use the successor’s calendar.



P3e/ PM5 have an option to select which calendar to be used on lag before re-scheduling.



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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Tue, 2007-02-20 07:02
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Hi Alex,



At present, I don’t have files in MSP2003. A colleague of mine from previous collaboration loaded MSP2003 in my laptop and we used to prepare our proposal in MSP and P3, but the final submission was in P3.



So my laptop got corrupted and was re-formatted. There was no partition so all files gone.



I come to know about this differences because I read books MSP2003.



so i cannot sent you any files.



regards,



Charlie

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Submitted by Alexandre Faul… on Mon, 2007-02-12 03:54
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Rodel and Charleston-JOseph,

strange behavior, because MSP 2003 was supposed to be only a restyling of MSP 2002

I do have this kind of result (or mistake) with MSP in French, because as of the 2002 release the basic standard calendar the working day is only 7 hour long

Could you send your file to afaulxbriole@wanadoo.fr?

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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Mon, 2007-02-12 03:35
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Rodel,



Do the best you can to acquire same version of MS project as the client.



Otherwise, you have to live with the same problem that repeat and repeat until completion of your project.



This is because it is very clear in MS Project 2003 that the new version is totally different from previous versions.



Cheers



Charlie