Controlling your Activities ID
Controlling your Activities ID
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I am new into MS Project as Primavera is no longer to support P3/SureTrak.
I am used to have some control on my activities ID; this could be worked around with a Text Field if you can set some sort of data validation so when entering your Alphanumeric Task ID it won't repeat. Is it possible, how?
I am used to have some control on my activities ID; this could be worked around with a Text Field if you can set some sort of data validation so when entering your Alphanumeric Task ID it won't repeat. Is it possible, how?
RE: Controlling your Activities ID
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RE: Controlling your Activities ID
Unique identifier does not provides the control we are used to. It is common practice under other software to assign your initial schedule activities ID with ID numbers 10 units apart. If you are in need to add activities you can use numbers in between, if not enough you can use decimal number or suffix.
Consistency in activity ID is crucial specially when comparing different versions of the schedule keeping your baselines/target under a separate file a more powerful method than just a few additional fields in the same file.
Only if you know the other software you would understand the power of controlling your activities ID while being able to compare changes in updates adding activities ID and not losing track of your activities and so on. This is something all other software can do.
Thanks for your effort but after analyzing if another field would do it I found it won't. I already gave up MS Project as an alternative.
RE: Controlling your Activities ID