Best way to set up big project

[kuwanderer]

Hey,
I've been working on creating a huge project. It basically is a timeline of the life of a shipping container that goes through 50+ different events divided into a design, 1st production, and Build phases. I've got it build and it works great in project. My problem is organizing it with 150+ containers going through the timeline during the projects life. My container will be built in waves with 5-10 starting the timeline together then another wave the following week.

The best solution I've found is making each event a summary task that contains each container in the program. So there will be around 50 summary task(event tracking points) containing 150+ containers. I am using different text columns for Project manager, Container ID, and Category so I can filter to see just the container in the timeline that I want. It works. But When I filter to show just the container for 1 project manager the % compete doesn't reflect what is filtered. It reflects everything.



So, Is there a better way to organize the project? Is there a way to have % complete for each summary task reflect only what is filtered? I'll try an attach a pic to show what I am doing.


Thanks for any help

[JulieS]

Its a bit tough for my old eyes to see your Gantt chart view. I'm guessing you have items for each of the containers organized by summary task?

If you have coded each task with the container ID consider creating a custom group (by container ID) to see summary level % complete. Filtering does not recalculate the % complete only for visible tasks.

Post back if you need more guidance on setting up the group.