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From: elbyc on 7 May 2008 19:19 I'm planning a launch date of a new product. One of the tasks is set to 4 weeks duration. It starts on June 12 but ends on July 4. How can I set the weeks so that weekends are included? It should end on July 10.
From: Jonathan Sofer on 7 May 2008 19:32 You need create a special working calendar that has the weekends as working days and then apply that calendar to the tasks that will be worked on over weekends. You can apply calendars to tasks in the Task Information screen on the Advanced tab. If the entire schedule should be on this calendar, you can apply the calendar at the project information screen under Project>Project Information. FYI, if you assigned resources to a task, the resource calendar will overwrite the project calendar. If you assign a task calendar, you can also check the box "Scheduling ignores resource calendar" to force the task calendar to overwrite the resource calendar. Jonathan "elbyc" <elby_cloud(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3d88eea6-7197-4663-9d2a-ff531c6901d9(a)q1g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > I'm planning a launch date of a new product. One of the tasks is set > to 4 weeks duration. It starts on June 12 but ends on July 4. How can > I set the weeks so that weekends are included? It should end on July > 10.
From: elbyc on 7 May 2008 19:54 On May 7, 4:32 pm, "Jonathan Sofer" <jonathan.sofer.m...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > You need create a special working calendar that has the weekends as working > days and then apply that calendar to the tasks that will be worked on over > weekends. You can apply calendars to tasks in the Task Information screen > on the Advanced tab. > > If the entire schedule should be on this calendar, you can apply the > calendar at the project information screen under Project>Project > Information. > > FYI, if you assigned resources to a task, the resource calendar will > overwrite the project calendar. If you assign a task calendar, you can also > check the box "Scheduling ignores resource calendar" to force the task > calendar to overwrite the resource calendar. > > Jonathan > > "elbyc" <elby_cl...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > news:3d88eea6-7197-4663-9d2a-ff531c6901d9(a)q1g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > > > > I'm planning a launch date of a new product. One of the tasks is set > > to 4 weeks duration. It starts on June 12 but ends on July 4. How can > > I set the weeks so that weekends are included? It should end on July > > 10.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Thank you - I just got some help from a colleague. I should have stated more clearly that although no work will be done on weekends, I want the duration of 1 wk to last 7 days. In fact, the problem was that I had my work week set to 35 days. That is true for our offices when scheduling resources, but doesn't work for planning the project. I copied the duration column into Excel, changed the work week to 40 hours and copied the duration column back, and it worked.
From: Dave on 8 May 2008 03:18 It may be helpful to you to know that you can use the concept of 'elapsed' time in Project. So if you enter a duration of 1 emo it will be one elapsed month rather than 1 working month. Of course,the length of the elapsed month will depend on how may days you have set a month to be which is not the same month to month. elbyc wrote: > On May 7, 4:32 pm, "Jonathan Sofer" <jonathan.sofer.m...(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> You need create a special working calendar that has the weekends as working >> days and then apply that calendar to the tasks that will be worked on over >> weekends. You can apply calendars to tasks in the Task Information screen >> on the Advanced tab. >> >> If the entire schedule should be on this calendar, you can apply the >> calendar at the project information screen under Project>Project >> Information. >> >> FYI, if you assigned resources to a task, the resource calendar will >> overwrite the project calendar. If you assign a task calendar, you can also >> check the box "Scheduling ignores resource calendar" to force the task >> calendar to overwrite the resource calendar. >> >> Jonathan >> >> "elbyc" <elby_cl...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >> >> news:3d88eea6-7197-4663-9d2a-ff531c6901d9(a)q1g2000prf.googlegroups.com... >> >> >> >>> I'm planning a launch date of a new product. One of the tasks is set >>> to 4 weeks duration. It starts on June 12 but ends on July 4. How can >>> I set the weeks so that weekends are included? It should end on July >>> 10.- Hide quoted text - >> - Show quoted text - > > Thank you - I just got some help from a colleague. I should have > stated more clearly that although no work will be done on weekends, I > want the duration of 1 wk to last 7 days. > > In fact, the problem was that I had my work week set to 35 days. That > is true for our offices when scheduling resources, but doesn't work > for planning the project. I copied the duration column into Excel, > changed the work week to 40 hours and copied the duration column back, > and it worked.
From: elbyc on 8 May 2008 12:05
On May 8, 12:18 am, Dave <nob...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > It may be helpful to you to know that you can use the concept of > 'elapsed' time in Project. So if you enter a duration of 1 emo it will > be one elapsed month rather than 1 working month. Of course,the length > of the elapsed month will depend on how may days you have set a month to > be which is not the same month to month. > > > > elbyc wrote: > > On May 7, 4:32 pm, "Jonathan Sofer" <jonathan.sofer.m...(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> You need create a special working calendar that has the weekends as working > >> days and then apply that calendar to the tasks that will be worked on over > >> weekends. You can apply calendars to tasks in the Task Information screen > >> on the Advanced tab. > > >> If the entire schedule should be on this calendar, you can apply the > >> calendar at the project information screen under Project>Project > >> Information. > > >> FYI, if you assigned resources to a task, the resource calendar will > >> overwrite the project calendar. If you assign a task calendar, you can also > >> check the box "Scheduling ignores resource calendar" to force the task > >> calendar to overwrite the resource calendar. > > >> Jonathan > > >> "elbyc" <elby_cl...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > >>news:3d88eea6-7197-4663-9d2a-ff531c6901d9(a)q1g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > >>> I'm planning a launch date of a new product. One of the tasks is set > >>> to 4 weeks duration. It starts on June 12 but ends on July 4. How can > >>> I set the weeks so that weekends are included? It should end on July > >>> 10.- Hide quoted text - > >> - Show quoted text - > > > Thank you - I just got some help from a colleague. I should have > > stated more clearly that although no work will be done on weekends, I > > want the duration of 1 wk to last 7 days. > > > In fact, the problem was that I had my work week set to 35 days. That > > is true for our offices when scheduling resources, but doesn't work > > for planning the project. I copied the duration column into Excel, > > changed the work week to 40 hours and copied the duration column back, > > and it worked.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Thanks - that is interesting, didn't know about that one. |