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You're most welcome Andrew.

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On 5/28/2010 1:26 PM, Andrew Lavinsky wrote:
> Honestly, I've never noticed that Task Summary Name field before.
> That'll work way better. Kind of like when I was looking at 2010 the
> other day and saw the Linked Fields field and thought it was a new field
> - only later realizing it's been around for a couple of years.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
>
> - Andrew Lavinsky
> Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I think Kirsten's message is a repeat posting from a few days ago.
>> I've given her some options on adding the Task Summary Name to the
>> Resource Usage view and creating a group to group by the Task Summary
>> Name resource field.
>>
>> Julie
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>> On 5/27/2010 8:24 PM, Andrew Lavinsky wrote:
>>
>>> The trick is that you need to flag each task/assignment with the
>>> summary task and then group by that element.
>>>
>>> Easiest would perhaps be to group by WBS levels. If you're using
>>> 2007 SP2, add the WBS Code to the Resource Usage view, then Project>
>>> Group By the WBS Code, setting the outline to use levels.
>>>
>>> Something like that should work. I don't have Project in front of
>>> me, so can't play with it to confirm this is exactly how it would
>>> work.
>>>
>>> Note in preliminary testing that 2007 SP1 has issues grouping outline
>>> codes by levels.
>>>
>>> I'll take a look at it tomorrow and see if I can't come up with
>>> something more specific.
>>>
>>> "Kirsten" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to create a report or view that shows the Summary Task
>>>> as my header then resource name an Monthly hour associated by the
>>>> Summary Task.
>>>>
>>>> The Resource Usage View is ok, but I need it to role up to the
>>>> Summary task, how do I get it to do that? I only need to view
>>>> Monthly Hours at the Summary Task Level.
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Kirsten
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