Bars different sizes in gantt chart view

[Hil_Jozi]

I find that even though the duration for several tasks is the same, the view
in the gantt chart shows these tasks as being different durations. I thought
it may print accurately, but it doesn't....

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello,

Could you check that the resources assigned to these tasks have different
calendars with different # of Hours/day?

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Hil_Jozi,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Duration is a measure of working time, so a 5 day task shows a longer bar if
it spans a weekend, and even more if it spans a non-working time period like
company holidays.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[Hil_Jozi]

Hi Mike Glen,

Thanks for your response. It makes sense about the task falling over
non-working time, but the task durations I'm trying to indicate, are in hours
and range from 2.5 hrs to 5 hrs and so on. The problem I'm experiencing is
that several tasks, each with a duration of 2.5 hrs, all show bars of varying
sizes.....

Kind regards,

Hilary

 

[Hil_Jozi]

Hi Gérard,

I haven't assigned any resources to these tasks yet.

Kind regards,

Hilary

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hil_Jozi,

If you have durations with decimal numbers, the display on the screen is not
always the same besides the timescale because of some round value: to the
upper or to the lower value.
Gérard Ducouret

Hi Mike Glen,

Thanks for your response. It makes sense about the task falling over
non-working time, but the task durations I'm trying to indicate, are in
hours
and range from 2.5 hrs to 5 hrs and so on. The problem I'm experiencing is
that several tasks, each with a duration of 2.5 hrs, all show bars of
varying
sizes.....

Kind regards,

Hilary



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[Hil_Jozi]

Hi there,

Thanks, I see what Project is doing now wrt the non-working time over
weekends, but I wasn't thinking of the overnight non-working hours! However,
I've set the calendar working time to 10 hours/day and the duration for a
particular task is 10 hours - it seems strange that Project would indicate
the bar starting at the beginning of the day up until the beginning of the
next day. Maybe this is just the way Project is set up, but is there a way of
stopping this happening?

Kind regards,

Hilary

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Hilary,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

In the Gantt Chart view, right click in a blank area of the chart, select
Layout... and uncheck "Round bars to whole days".

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[Hil_Jozi]

You're a star, thankyou

Kind regards,

Hilary

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Hilary

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials