Discuss Spider Project
Dear all,
I noticed, that Spider ignores the activity priority for all leveling algorithms, except Standard. I understand, this is a deliberate decision.
See example below:
Question: how do I address the following task then:
When I create the 3 scenarios for a project I usualy have to change the Material Consumption [per Unit Volume] for each material assign an activity. This is very time consuming since I usualy have 100+ materials for a project. When I asign materials to activities I use either the activity properties box or the activities tab in the materials properties box. Is there a faster way to modify the material consumption other than using the activity properties box or the activities tab in the materials properties box?
Hello,
First of all I have to say I have little experience working with Spider Project. I have been trying to create scripts in order to perform complex tasks faster when I hit a dead end trying to create a script for risk analysis. The script looks like this:
Vladimir, Rafael,
I am looking now at phases and I have the following few questions:
Question 1
I could not find any function similar to “Indent” or “Outdent”, available in MSP or Asta. I only found “Convert to Phase”. Hence the only way I found to Indent or Outdent is to cut Activity or Phase and then to Paste it (One Level Lower or to The Same Level). Is it correct?
Question 2
I never managed to create the following structure in Spider
Hi,
I was looking at comparison of different versions of schedule and found one issue, which I would consider a bug, unless I miss something.
Every task in Spider has a code field, which Spider later used to uniquely identify task, when comparing different versions of a project. This code has to be unique, it can be changed by a user, but default goes 1, 2, 3……
Dear all,
I am looking at resources in Spider and have a question how to simulate resources absence.
As I can see, every resource needs to have a calendar, which, in turn, depends on a Week object and exceptions.
I am now considering the situation of named resources.
Question 1
As in practice each resource has his own absence schedule (due to individually booked vacations ), does it mean, that I will have to create:
Hi,
I am just experimenting with entering of the actual performance data into Spider, so far with just entering the default data, which Spider offers me, when I do right click=> add to Actual Data Input Table.
It works fine and logical when I enter the new period every time. However I can’t understand behavior and logic of a tool, when chose to include the period, for which the performance data is already available.
So, in the example below, I have created a simple 1 task schedule.
Vladimir,
I tried the Asta Powerproject on what I call for myself a “Vladimir Liberzon resource leveling test”. A simple schedule with 2 resources and 4 tasks, which you showed in one of the forums here. I just found it very illustrative for the purpose of testing resource leveling intelligence of a tool
I have the following question regarding tracking of progress in Spider:
I observe the following behavior:
Once I have updated progress on some of the activities (once I have entered an actual data for some of the activities), after that I will get an advice to reschedule project (which is logical).
Hi, it is me again.
In MS Project, there is a possibility to do a Manually Editing of Timephased Assignments. That means, that I can assign resource to a task and then go to task usage or resource usage and manually edit the amount of work the resource is scheduled to work. I can make intervals of assignments as small as 15 min.
See picture below:
May be I didn’t search well, but I couldn’t find this feature is Spider. I only found how to assign resource to task with permanent loading.
Did I miss something?
