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Skills & Multi-Resources

It seems that if I create a Multi-Resource which contains skiils, when assigning the M-Res to an activity the quantity of the skill will be reset to 1. For example if I have M-Res 1 comprised of 1 Res A and 2 Res Skill 1, when I assign it to an activity the assignemnt wil consider only 1 Res A and 1 Res Skill 1 and in order to obtain the correct asignment I have to update the contents of the multi-resource before I change the quantity of the M-Res assignment.

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Portfolios and Costs

Vladimir,

how does spider handle different costs of the same material/resource in portfolios. Let's take a concrete of class 8/10 (C8/10). If for one project the cost of pouring the concrete are 53.8 euro/m3 and for another the cost is 68.99 euro/m3, how does spider handle this when I create a portfolio using the 2 previous mentioned projects. To be more precise do I have to create 2 materials (with different codes)?

Best Regards,

Bogdan

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Reasons to use multiple links between the tasks

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 4 months

Dear all,

possibility to use multiple links between the same 2 tasks is quoted as one of the Spider’s advantage. However the only application of this I could think of is to have SS and FF links from Activity 1 to Activity 2. In case Activity 2 is a hammock type, then it will mirror the duration of Activity 1.

Are there any other applications of these feature?

Regards.

Evgeny

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New Features in Spider - Perform Automatically, Consider Into Scheduling

Vladimir,

I have downloaded the new release of spider, very eager to try the features, especially the new milestones wich should not be considered into project scheduling. Unfortunetely I haven't been able to get them to work. There is also the posibility that I don't understand how they work.

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Can’t make feature work “Allow Performance Interruptions of no longer then”

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 4 months

Dear all,

I seem not to be able to make the feature “Allow Performance Interruptions of no longer then” to work.

In my test schedule Activity 1 has a calendar with exception on 25 Jan, which with weekend brings interruption of 64 hours., but I just can’t make Spider reschedule activity 1 it to the next week.

The schedule can be downloaded from here (Interrupt.001.sprj)

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B1FBt_G3gCVqS1pmZTJqcWI0Qjg/edit

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Filter activities for Delay Reason

A Delay Reason can be because of:

.    1-Activity: driving predecessor, logic link

.    2-Resource availability

.    3-Calendar Exception: exception taking over any other reason, say an activity cannot work on month 3 but it is scheduled for month 1 because of predecessor logic, if predecessor delays it to start on month 3 it will be further delayed to start on month 4.

.    4-Financial

.    5-Retained Logic or Broken Link

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Project Scheduling and Multiple Cash-Flows

First of all,

thank you Vladimir, Rafael for your help with my material ref-book problem, I managed to create ref-books and corporate ref-books for activities, material and resource assignments - very useful. Unfortunately today I got stuck on something else. Usually during a project I want to create and monitor several Cash-Flows. The issue I have encounterd is that if the start/finish date of the milestones which I use to create cash-flows exceeds the finish of the project the sheduling of the project is pretty much killed using any algorithm and is very unpredictable.

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Excel-like features of Spider

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 4 months

Vladimir, Rafael,

In one of my questions about MSP, Vladimir answered, that it is very easy to implement Excel-like features in Spider.

But so far I could not find how to do it.

How would I achieve the following: say I have several Project-level parameters, and I want durations of some (but not all) of the activities to be dependent on these parameters, based on certain formulas?

So, if I would do it in Excel, I would do something like this:

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