If we want to see more information about tasks to prepare schedule, Combination View make it easy. One View often displays limited information. Now when dependencies are also displayed in Gantt Chart, this View is almost redundant.Ĭombination View means we can see two views at the same time. On the Gantt Chart, it displays two bars for every tasks – one for current plan and other for baseline plan.Īs the name indicates, Network Diagram View displays a project network diagram mainly displaying dependencies among project activities. The main purpose of Tracking Gantt Chart is to monitor tasks progress and compare it against baseline. Tracking Gantt Chart looks similar to Gantt Chart. On right hand side, it displays day wise resource allocation on tasks. In this view, we can see list of tasks on which resources are working. Left hand side is a table and right hand side is resource allocation. Similar to Task Usage view, it also has two sections. If we want to see list of tasks, a resource is working on, Resource Usages is the view. In this view, we can also see list of resources working on a task. If we want to see tasks and resources together, Task Usages is the view. By double clicking on a resource row or selecting Information on Resource Tab will open Resource Information dialogue box to edit detailed information about resources. We can use this view to add/remove/edit resource information. This view contains only table with commonly used columns. While Gantt Chart is mostly task oriented, Resource Sheet view is resource oriented. I will discuss some views here that are commonly used by project managers to perform their day to day scheduling work. Similarly MS Project has several pre-defined view catering to various standard requirements of project managers. Names, duration, start and finish dates are presented in the tables on left hand side and bar chart (called Gantt Chart) is presented in the graph on right hand side. Traditionally a Gantt Chart contains Tasks names, tasks duration, start and finish dates and a bar chart drawn based on tasks duration. There are two sections – Table on left hand side and Graph on right hand side.

For examples, let’s look into Gantt Chart view shown below. A View in Microsoft Project is a representation of data in the form of table and graph. Addressing some common requirements, Microsoft has provided some readymade views and allow users to customize them to fit their specific needs or create new views from the scratch altogether. Every view presents data in a format logical to users. To systematically present the data to users, MS Project has several views. Microsoft Project collects, derives and maintains a lot of data which is necessary for effective scheduling, tracking and reporting projects. Microsoft Project 2016 – Views that you can use

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