Individual markers

Sarah,

Meetings can be planned in 2 ways.

1* With the budget against a ’Level of Effort’ activity. This means that when the data date moves along you will automatically claim performance against the budget you set aside for meetings.

2* As meetings are individual tasks, you can insert an activity of 1 day duration (or whatever duration the meeting will be) for each meeting you intend to hold. This will give you a chain of meetings driven by lag relationships (i.e. bi-weekly meetings) or by other activities in the programme. You can also split one activity into sperate parts.

Have you done any formal training on P3e yet?

Oliver

Thanks Oliver for the reply.

I’ve only done on-the-job training, working from a manual which we happen to have in the office. The programme I am trying to create is only for visual effect, to be included in a bid we are tendering. I was hoping to be able to provide a linear chain of meetings on one line called "bimonthly meetings" rather than a visual staircase of linked meetings. I thought I had seen this effect on other plans, and presumed I could do it in P3E. Apparently not!

If you are looking for a visual effect then there is a possibility by following steps:

1) Create a seperate WBS level where u wish to have the activity titled " bimonthly meetings"
2) create a "Level of Effort" activity called Bi weekly meetings
3) Add milestone activities for all dates you expect meetings to be held & link it suitably to LOE activity.
4) Under bar settings for LOE activity & milestones, Check "show bar when collapsed"
5) Schedule & minimise the WBS.

You should be able to see a long bar with milestones superimposed.

Hope it helps

Sue

Sue, I owe you chocolate - that worked a treat!

Thanks ever so much...I would NEVER have figured that out on my own.

Regards,
Sarah