About project calendar in MS Project 2003

[Guest]

What does a project Calendar mean? When I already select a calendar for the
project, still the tasks show the calendar selected as None

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Shiva Chaitanya.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Shiva,

MS Project manages 3 levels of calendars:
- Project Calendar : selected in Project / Project Information. By default,
it is the "Standard" calendar but you can create and use your own calendar.
- Resource calendar : which is often the Project calendar with some
exceptions : holidays... but which can be completely different
- Task calendar : for example you want to say that this task can only be
done on a weekend

While tasks don't have any resource assigned, they obey the Project Calendar
When tasks have resources assigned, they obey the resource calendar,
excepted when they have a specific task calendar : this last one has a
higher priority

Gérard Ducouret

What does a project Calendar mean? When I already select a calendar for
the project, still the tasks show the calendar selected as None

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Shiva Chaitanya.

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[TonyZink]

Hello Shiva --

Each individual task within a project schedule will display "None" in
the calendar field (meaning that there is no task-specific calendar
selected), unless you explicitly assign a special calendar to that
task. Otherwise, MSProject will assume that all tasks will follow the
selected project calendar.

Good luck!

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[Dytham]

Is this in fact the case ?

In v2003, I find that for resourced tasks, calendar of resource overrules
any task calendar set.

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[JulieS]

Hello Dytham,

If you have a task calendar assigned as well as resources, Project
by defaults schedules the task for working time in common between
the two calendars. If there is no common working time, Project will
schedule according to the task calendar but will show an
error/warning message. If you want to over rule the resource
calendar, you need to select the option "Scheduling ignores resource
calendar" when applying the task calendar.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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