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What is Publish field?
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The Publish field indicates whether the current task should be published to Project Server with the rest of the project. By default, this field is set to Yes.
What is Proposed Start Date field?
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The Proposed Start Date field contains the estimated beginning date for the current proposal. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Proposed Finish Date field?
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The Proposed Finish Date field contains the estimated end date for the current proposal. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Proposal Cost field?
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The Proposal Cost field stores the estimated cost for the proposed project. This field is controlled by the workflow.
Can I schedule the project from the finish date?
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A project can only be scheduled from the start date.
What is Project field?
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The Project field shows the name of the subprojects where tasks, resources, or assignments originate.
What is Project Departments field?
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The Project Departments field contains the name of the department with which the selected project is associated, as selected in the Department lookup table, which is shipped with Microsoft Project Server and can be modified to reflect the organization's specific department names.
What is Primary Objectives field?
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The Primary Objectives field contains the primary objectives for the current proposal, as selected in the Primary Objective lookup table, which is shipped with Microsoft Project Server and can be modified to reflect the organization's specific objective statements. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Preleveled Start field?
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The Preleveled Start field contains the start date of a task as it was before resource leveling was done.
What is Preleveled Finish field?
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The Preleveled Finish field contains the finish date of a task as it was before resource leveling was done.
What is Predecessors field?
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The Predecessors field lists the task ID numbers for the predecessor tasks on which the task depends before it can be started or finished.
What is Post Implementation Review Notes field?
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The Post Implementation Review Notes field stores review meeting notes or a link to a meeting notes publication for the post-implementation review. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Post Implementation Review Date field?
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The Post Implementation Review Date field indicates when the Post Implementation Review meeting was or will be held. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Placeholder field?
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Placeholder tasks are manually scheduled tasks that do not have enough information to be scheduled. When you enter a manually scheduled task without a valid start or finish date and without a valid duration, Microsoft Project designates the task as having a Placeholder task mode.
What is Physical Percent (%) Complete field?
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The Physical % Complete field shows an entered percent complete value that can be be used as an alternative for calculating budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP).
What is Phonetics field?
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The Phonetics field is used only in the Japanese version of Project.
What is Percent complete?
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Percent Complete is a field that is calculated based on Actual Duration and Duration and it indicates how much progress has been made on the project or on tasks.
What is Percent (%) Work Complete field?
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The % Work Complete field contains the current status of a task, resource, or assignment, expressed as the percentage of work that has been completed.
What is Percent (%) Allocation field?
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The Percent Allocation field contains the percentage that represents the total amount of a resource's capacity being allocated to tasks.
What is Peak Units field?
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The Peak Units field contains the percentage or number of units to which a resource is assigned at any one time for tasks as distributed over time.
What is Peak field?
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The Peak field contains the maximum percentage or number of units for which a resource is assigned at any one time for tasks/assignments.
What is Overtime Work field?
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The Overtime Work field contains the amount of overtime scheduled to be performed by all resources assigned to a task, for all tasks assigned to a resource, or by a resource on a task, and charged at the overtime rates of the resources involved.
What is Overtime Rate field?
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The Overtime Rate field shows the rate of pay for overtime work performed by a resource.
What is Overtime Cost field?
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The Overtime Cost field shows the total overtime cost for a task, for a resource on all assigned tasks, or for a resource assignment.
What is Overallocated field?
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The Overallocated field indicates whether a resource is assigned to more work on a specific task or all tasks that can be completed within a normal working capacity.

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