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Why are installers such a pain to both use and create in the first place?
Hopefully, however, the pain has now gone

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An explanation of how to use TA’s multiple element linking functionality.

This is shown by using a milestone that needs to be connected to a number of tasks but could just as easily be any EA element type.

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Managing milestones in TA is simple, once you know how…

This brief article will show you how to designate any task as a milestone and how to control how milestones are displayed.

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Time Architect allows you to model both (the normal) Finish - Start relationship (where the start time of the second task is set based on the finish time of the first) and the less used (but often very useful) Start - Finish relationship (where the finish time of the second task is set based on the start time of the first task).

…This button is not the most obvious button on TA’s screens: This button is only active if the current element has links to one or more parent elements.

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An overview of the TA review status icons and what review status is all about.

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As part of the process of making TA more accessible and easier to understand, we are currently looking at extending the TA Profile so that it is a full MDG technology. The EA help manual is very useful but there is the odd hole or two when you are trying to find out how to [...]

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In TA 2.2 we introduced the idea of export to MS Project via the Excel Workbook format - see the previous blog entry for more details. However, during the beta phase, we discovered that MS Project did not work exactly how we expected…
Although MS Project will allow you to open non-native language Project files (.mpp [...]

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Not all project planning is done in Time Architect (yet ) and by far the most widely used (if not most popular tool) out there is MS Project. One of the early design decisions behind TA was that it should be used to get data from MS Project into the appropriate fields in Enterprise [...]

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One of the early driving ideas behind Time Architect was the desire to get the Project Management/Resource Allocation data in EA out and into MS Project so that it could be used by other people. … Nevertheless, the need to get resource and timing information from TA out to MS Project is still an important one so, in this article, I’m going to show you how easy it is…

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When we started writing Time Architect we needed a way to represent the relationship between tasks but which of the myriad of connectors should we use?
Based on the UML definition of a dependency link (“Shows that one element relies in some way on another element”) we decided that it made sense to use the dependency [...]

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