I have my weekends setup correctly as non-working days. I would like to enter a duration on tasks and for the system to calculate and show the duration only during the work week. Example: If I put in a 2 week duration for the task, it would show from the first Monday to the second Friday. I'm guessing that there is another field aside from duration that I need to use to accomplish this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Saving Changes...
which tool are you using to produce the gantt chart? Can you change the units for duration from weeks to days and get around it like that? Saving Changes...
I'm sure there is some way of doing this (or was in MSP 2003) but I can't remember exactly how, and where I am now I have no MS Project at all ( or any other PM software for that matter) to try to remind myself. I think the solution is a little conversion macro around duration units.
Philip HindPM II| P R Hind Consulting LtdRayleigh, Essex, United Kingdom
Hi, You may find that you have a mismatch between your calendar start and end times and your Default Start and End Times.
If you look at ....Tools>Options>Calendar you should see your Default Start and End Time. Then take a look at Tools>Change Working Time... On the right you should see From and To times. Check they are the same. It sounds like when you are scheduling yours tasks that are starting later than the from and to times and therefore running into the next working day i.e. the following Monday. Hope this helps. Saving Changes...
Hi Phil,
They are both set from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. Thanks though I would have never thought of this. I can believe in all of these years using Project I haven't come across this.
Tim- Thanks for the forum link! Saving Changes...
Philip HindPM II| P R Hind Consulting LtdRayleigh, Essex, United Kingdom
Jim, In that case just check the Start and End times on the tasks don't go over these times. You can display times in the start and date fields by going to Tools>Options>View and update the "Date format" drop down to include a time. Saving Changes...
Hi Phil,
Thanks again. I have the date format the same in the project options and the task. It still spans the weekend.
For example, I have a task that my resource has estimated will take 6 days, and that is entered into the "Durations" field in my plan. The start date is thursday 6/712 and the end date is wednesday 6/13/12. So in effect, the task spanned the weekend when I didnt want it to. And I have saturday and sunday configured as non-working days.
-Jim Saving Changes...
Philip HindPM II| P R Hind Consulting LtdRayleigh, Essex, United Kingdom
Jim, Did you inherit this plan from someone else or did you start it from scratch? Saving Changes...
created it from scratch. Again, cant believe i havent come across this in the past. Saving Changes...
Philip HindPM II| P R Hind Consulting LtdRayleigh, Essex, United Kingdom
Then I am stumped. It works fine in my version of Project. The only way I could get the weekend included was to make either Saturday or Sunday a working day.
Sorry I was unable to fix this :-( Saving Changes...
