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Accounting for Employee Time
I would be interested in suggestions for accounting for employees in C&P. To me there are three options...

Calendar Format Timelines
I am trying to create timelines for jobs in a 'calendar format'. All I have been able to use in C&P is in the scheduling window. I really like the calendar feature in the scheduling window but am unable to view the whole calendar or get this window to print out.

Creating Schedules
Can you clone schedules to and from jobs that are already open?

Developing Job Budgets
I am trying to streamline our job budgeting process. Can you forward to me how your shops develop budgets specifically in terms of who is assigned to the task of developing a budget.

Due Date Report
Does anyone know of a report that will pull all tasks that are due for all jobs.

Gross Margin & Traffic Questions
We are working on profitability this year and I would like to ask the following questions: 1) What percentage do you shoot for in gross margin 2) What percentage do you shoot for in AGI

Implementation with Production
I'm curious if any of you have experience implementing C&P with your production department. We are just getting up and running and are experiencing a great deal of resistance from our production department.

Inventory Tracking?
Hello, I'm the production manager for a corporate communications group and have to assign tracking information to each piece that we create for inventory management needs. Has anyone used C&P to do this?

Job Revisions
I have recently taken over traffic/production here and I have a question about how other agencies are handling job revisions. How are revisions being documented and communicated to production personnel?

Job Work Flow
We are reorganizing some of our processes and were wondering how other companies handle workflow. In other words, what steps does a job go through from inception to completion?

Photo Archive
I'm looking for suggestions on how to re-organize my company's photo archive. We produce alot of publications, catalogs and brochures- and we have a ton of photos!

Report for Job Status
We are trying to figure out a way to come up with one report to use for our daily Production Meeting. It seems that C&P does not give you the option of editing or customizing any of their existing reports.

Scheduling / Calendar Coordination in a PC/MAC Environment
Has anyone found a workable solution to coordinating schedules and/or calendars in a PC & Mac environment? Our PCs use MS Outlook 2000 and we are set up on an Exchange server.

Second Worker on Task Using Subtasking
We have recently put together our Logistics Dept. we have found there are many useful tools in C&P, but also have many problems to solve, and links to put together. I am currently trying to find a way to put 2 people on the same task, and have the work to do report acknowledge it.

Setting up Status Codes
Can anyone relate a good "starting point" list of status codes for setting up the traffic portion of Clients & Profits?

Setting up Tasks Without Overkill
We are a small graphic design firm with billing of $500,000 a year. We are in the process of setting up and using C&P Classic. We set up groups with tasks associated with each group.

Status Code Process Inquiry
Regarding Statuses, we have been toying with the idea of attaching statuses to people. For example a status of in production might be in production-AA and in production-BB, where AA and BB represent person¹s initials.

Tracking Jobs With Job Status Codes
On an average, how many job numbers do you have open? Do you track your jobs by giving each of them a specific production status based on what stage of production the job is in?

Traffic Through C&P
Is ANYONE successfully using the traffic function of CP? We are an 11 person design studio, often with more than one designer on a job. We have used CP for a few years on our accounting side, and are happy with it.

Traffic Training Class
If there are enough participants, C&P would consider offering the one day Traffic training workshop. Is any one interested?

Traffic Updates
Can anyone recommend a practical method by which jobs are updated weekly after a traffic meeting? i.e., which status reports are most helpful, scheduling tasks, etc. Do your traffic managers spend a lot of time updating schedules?

Trafficking Little Jobs
I have been reading the message board and really liked the idea of putting the production schedule on a wall board so that everyone could see where projects were.

Weekly Traffic Report
My Weekly traffic report window shows only one job at a time, depending on what "Job Type" it is. I want to show ALL job types within a certain "status code" for the week.

Work in Process
Message For those of you in graphic design agencies, I wonder if you could take a moment to answer some questions about the recording of WIP on a monthly basis. 1. Do you record WIP at the end of each month, not at all, or at some other frequency?....