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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Lesson 6: Task and project forms │
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-
- In this lesson you'll:
-
- ■ look at the task form for both a
- milestone and a task
-
- ■ enter overhead costs for the project in
- the project form
-
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1205
- When you're ready to add more detail
- about a task or milestone, use the
- ~task form~2.
-
- To add detail about your project or to
- change project default values, use the
- ~project form~2.
-
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1205
- So that we can see these forms, I'll get
- the HiTech project for you and HTPM will
- display its PERT chart.
-
- Just sit back for a moment and wait for
- the next Tutorial window.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF>5<F2><ENTER>HITECH1 <F10><CHOME><CMD><*1412
- To edit information on a task form, move the
- cursor to the task or milestone on the PERT chart.
-
- Let's start by looking at the task form for the
- milestone ~Booth~2.
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- Press the right arrow, then the down arrow key><CMD>
- <XFLD><RGT><DN><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1414
- To add data for this milestone, pull down the Data
- menu.
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- Press F3><CMD>
- <XFLD><F3><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1414
- Now select ~Task form~2.
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- Type ~4~1><CMD>
- <XFLD>4<XFLD><HOME><CMD><*3815
- This is a milestone form. (The form
- for a task is different. We'll look
- at one a little later.)
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1412
- You can change the information in the fields you
- see now at the top of the form.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1412
- You can change the name of the milestone or the
- person responsible for it. You can also add a
- ~code~2 that you can use later for sorting reports.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1412
- You'll use the constraints to indicate dates
- imposed on the milestone by events outside the
- project.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1412
- Finally, fill in the ~Description~2 field if you'd
- like to include a fuller explanation of the mile-
- stone.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1403
- The lower half of the form, which you see now,
- contains data that HTPM supplies. You can view
- this data, but you can't change it.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*3413
- Now let's take a look at a task
- form for a task that's not a
- milestone. First, return to the
- PERT chart.
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- Press Esc><CMD>
- <XFLD><ESC><XFLD><CMD><*1214
- Move the triangular cursor to the task ~PlnBooth~2.
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- Press right arrow><CMD>
- <XFLD><RGT><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1214
- Pull down the Data menu and select ~Task form~2
- again.
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- Press F3 then type ~4~1><CMD>
- <XFLD><F3>4<XFLD><HOME><CMD><*1416
- HTPM places the task form over the PERT chart.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1211
- Like the milestone form, this task form contains
- fields you can change (you see them now at the
- top of the form) and fields that HTPM calculates.
-
- You can change some of the same information:
- the task name, the person responsible. You can
- add a code and description, too.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1211
- But this task form contains some information not found
- on a milestone form. For example, HTPM assumes that
- the task will start as soon as possible. (Note the
- ~ASAP~2 in the ~Pln start~2 field.) You can change
- this default. In addition, you can add the actual
- start and finish for the task. You can include some
- cost information here, too.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1203
- The information you see now at the bottom of the
- form is calculated by HTPM. You can view this
- information, but you can't change it.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1202
- HTPM has already filled in some data about this task,
- such as its planned start and finish. But the cost
- information (at the very bottom of the form) can't be
- calculated until you supply more data.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1202
- You'll use the milestone and task forms to specify
- information about individual tasks. To include data
- about the whole project, you'll use the project form.
- Let's return to the PERT chart so that you can see
- the project form.
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- Press Esc><CMD>
- <XFLD><ESC><XFLD><CMD><*1214
- Pull down the Data menu and select ~Project form~2.
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- Press F3 then type ~5~1><CMD>
- <XFLD><F3>5<XFLD><HOME><CMD><*1416
- The project form overlays the PERT chart.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1412
- Like the other forms in HTPM, the project form
- contains fields you can change (you see them now
- at the top of the form) and fields that HTPM
- calculates at the bottom.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1412
- The ~Planned start~2 field shows the date we used
- when creating the project from the work breakdown
- structure. HTPM calculates ~Planned finish~2 from
- the project information.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1414
- To track project costs in a later lesson, we'll add
- the planned overhead cost for the project to this form.
-
- Start by moving the cursor to the ~Pln overhead cost~2
- field.
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- Press Tab four times><CMD>
- <XFLD><TAB><TAB><TAB><TAB><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1408
- Overhead costs, which include such expenses as
- rent and utilities, are fixed costs for the whole
- project, not individual tasks. For HiTech, let's
- change the overhead costs to $6000.
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- Type ~6000~1 and press Tab><CMD>
- <XFLD>6000<TAB><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1408
- When the project is complete, we can include actual
- overhead costs in the ~Act overhead cost~2 field. But
- for now, we'll leave this field and the rest of this
- form as it is.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1202
- The information HTPM displays at the bottom of the
- project form is similar to that of the task form --
- in this case, it's for the entire project, not an
- individual task.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1202
- The last three lines of the form show cost informa-
- tion for the entire project. HTPM has filled in the
- planned overhead cost that we entered at the top of
- of the form.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1202
- As the project gets under way, we can include more
- cost information and HTPM will summarize it here.
- It will also project the cost of the entire project,
- based on our current rate of spending.
-
- Now return to the main menu.
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- Press Esc twice><CMD>
- <XFLD><ESC><ESC><XFLD><CMD><*1219
- Let's quickly review this lesson.
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF><CMD><*1205
- ~In summary ... ~1
-
- ■ Select ~Task form~2 from the Data menu
- to add detailed information about tasks
- and milestones.
-
- ■ Use the project form to enter data
- pertaining to the project as a whole,
- such as the default time units and
- project overhead costs.
-
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- Press Spacebar><CMD>
- <XFLD><Ctrl5><XFLD><ENDDEF>