I'm using MS Project for the first time and I can not seem to get the default number of working hours to carry over to the individual resource working hours. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong? Saving Changes...
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Stephen MayeSenior Vice PresidentVa, United States
Hi Lori,
I'm sorry I didn't reply to your message sooner; you've had time to become an MSProject expert by now. Anyway...so that I can attempt to answer the question intelligently (or find someone who can), let me ask you a questions.
When you refer to "the default number of working hours", are you refering to hours that carried over from a MSProject template? I'm not clear where the default working hours are coming from.
Secondly, are you taking a new manually created plan, assigning work hours to the activities, and then attempting to assign resources (and their anticipated or scheduled work hours) to the new plan?
It's been awhile since I did this, but I think this works. In Project 98, you go to Tools | Change Working Time... There's an Options button that lets you choose a specific type of calendar for your project, or change the standard working hours. A slightly different technique is simply to highlight days on the main screen and select "Working Time" -- assigning the vales you enter. Problem there is that you are limited to what you enter on the calendar -- if your project goes beyond the date range you've designated, you're back to "default" working time. The fix? Instead of choosing specific DATES, click on the headers for the DAYS of the week -- i.e. click on "M" and slide over to "F" to highlight all the Monday thru Friday columns, then assign the work hours using the fields on the right side of the dialogue box. Only problem there is it ends up overruling standard holidays -- go fix them yourself by paging down, clicking on the specific date (Thanksgiving, Bastille Day, whatever), and setting them to nonworking time.
Same techniques work for individual resource calendars, but that's another question. Saving Changes...
Senthil SPM III| GGS Information Services IncChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
"Change working hours" at the project level will cascade automatically to individual resources as well. Saving Changes...
