partial days being displayed in duration

[Vickifb]

I have a project where I have 5 sub tasks containing subtasks within one
task. I have no partial days, all durations are complet days. The sub tasks
have the following as durations: 61; 94; 87; 72; 43, the main task has
caluclated the duration of 181.88 with a start date of 1/21/08 and finish
date of 9/30/08. I have no predecessors, links or dependencies set.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in Advance Vicki

 

[John]

I have a project where I have 5 sub tasks containing subtasks within one
task. I have no partial days, all durations are complet days. The sub tasks
have the following as durations: 61; 94; 87; 72; 43, the main task has
caluclated the duration of 181.88 with a start date of 1/21/08 and finish
date of 9/30/08. I have no predecessors, links or dependencies set.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in Advance Vicki

Vickifb,
I'd start by going to Tools/Options/View tab and set the date format to
show a time. You may find that one or more of the "complete day" tasks
is not what you think. I'd also look at the predecessor links between
performance tasks. If there is a delay in one of them, it will affect
the summary line duration calculation.

Other places to look. Make sure the summary lines have the same working
time calendar with the same shift hours as the performance tasks. I
assume you have resources assigned to the performance tasks. Make sure
their working time calendar is in sync with the task calendar.

Lots of possibilities. Somewhere there is a setting or value that is not
what you think.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[Vickifb]

Hi, thanks for those pointers, the Finish Date's time is for 9:00AM. How
would I set the default time of the finish date to be end of day for the
whole project?

 

[John]

Hi, thanks for those pointers, the Finish Date's time is for 9:00AM. How
would I set the default time of the finish date to be end of day for the
whole project?

Vickifb,
You need to check a couple of things. First, go to
Tools/Options/Calendar tab and check the default start and end times and
the hours per day settings. Normal values are 8:00, 5:00 and 8
respectively. Second, display the Task Calendar field as a column in
your view. Normally all tasks and summary lines will say "none" meaning
there are no custom task calendars applied. Third, go to Project/Project
Information and check the calendar setting. Normally it will say
"standard", which is defined by the calendar settings under Tools/Change
Working Time for working days. And finally, just to be thorough, open
the Resource Sheet view and take a look at the value shown in the Base
Calendar field. Normally it will say "standard". However, one or more
resources could still have a customized "standard" working calendar.
Check those by selecting each resource and go to Project/Resource
Information/Working Time tab.

You might also want to go to our MVP website
at,http://project.mvps.org/links.htm, and click on the link for fellow
MVP, Mike Glen's tutorials. Take a look at lesson 7.

You may also find FAQ 5 - Default working hours, on our MVP website at,
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm, to be useful.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[Steve House]

The finish date/time is going to be determined by the start date/time plus
the duration. But remember - durations are ALWAYS measured in minutes.
Units such as days and weeks are just there for convenience of data entry.
Let's say you have a task that has one day duration and a normal workday is
the default 8 hours. The real duration of that task as far as Project is
concerned is 480.0 minutes even though you entered "1 day" when you put the
task in. For whatever reason our task's predecessor finishes at 10am so
this task is scheduled to start at 10am. When we get to the end of the
workday everyone goes home having done only 360.0 of the required 480.0
minutes worth of work - there's still time needed so it get's scheduled for
the next working morning.