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From: GC on 29 May 2008 05:17
Clearly MS don't intend Construction Planners and Schedulers to use their
'planning' package.
Proper Planning packages such as Primavera and PowerProject allow the use
of extremely versatile coding structures to group and sort tasks into logical
layouts.

One improvement they have made to the outline codes is that MS seem to have
learned that the planners are generally better at deciding the order the
codes should be placed they they are (and inherently their software), well
done for adding the 'Display order' radio buttons in the lookup dialog box -
Alphabetical/numerical order isn't always the best policy.

I hope a fix to this bug will be available in the next update, until then
I'll go back to 2003.

"cmweiss" wrote:

> I'm going to add to this post in hopes MS can see there is a significant
> impact to reducing the usability of the outline code. We used the outline
> code in multiple aspects to work packaging our schedules. The name
> descriptions in grouping data - but also it would recalculate the BL Start
> and BL Finish within the summary. This way I was able to only tag discreet
> work tasks and roll up the summary BL dates to implement into our earned
> value accounting system (which MSP 07 does not do.) Without this feature -
> we go backwards into restructuring the schedule into roll-up summaries for
> each work package. It was faster to WP code the tasks using the outline code
> fields - and saved me from having to rebuild schedules into work packages.
> This is such a significant impact that we have to reinstall Ms Project 2003
> so we can continue with our earned value projects.
>
> I'm not sure why MS Project reduced coding and fuctionality of this field.
> "Business Engineer" wrote:
>
> > In Project 2007, when you group by a custom outline code, the code values
> > (e.g. 1.2, 2.4) are displayed by default rather than the code descriptions
> > (e.g. Planning, Initiation). How do I show the code descriptions when I
> > group by outline codes rather than code values? How do I hide the field name
> > in groups?
> >
> > NOTE: Project 2003 defaulted to displaying code descriptions rather than
> > codes.
> >
> > Thank you for your assistance!
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