Calendar problems

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Maria

I have assigned an enterprise calendar different from the standard calendar
to several projects when loading them. My problem is that the company
holidays i have indicated as non-working days are still showing up with work
assigned to those days in the project. Is there anything else i need to do
to make the project use this calendar as the default?
I have gone into Project->Project Information and selected this
enterprise calendar as the calendar when it appeared as the Standard
Calendar- it was inconsistent.
I have found a way to get around this- but i am not satisfied with it. I
have selected a calendar for each task to be this enterprise calendar which
seems to set these days as non-working time. I have not found any way to make
this the default for all tasks assigned.

Thanks for any help you can give me!!
 
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Dominic Moss

Maria,

If you are using Enterprise Resources from the Enterprise Resource Pool they
will probably share the same base Calendar as the default Calendar in your
Enterprise Global File.

It may be that when you create your new project your tasks schedule in line
with the new calendar you have created to model the exceptional
circumstances requiring the calendar. However when you assign Enterprise
resources they will operate to their default base calendar and so not
observe the conventions defined in your new project calendar. Using Task
Calendars with the "scheduling ignores resource calendars" should resolve
the problem, you can set the Task Calendar option to all tasks
simultaneously by ensuring you are showing all subtasks, clicking once on
the Task name column heading and then pressing Shift+F2 to display the
"Multiple Task Information" dialogue box - the advanced tab will be "live".
Be aware that if you add any new tasks they will not have a task calendar
assigned.

An alternative is to use Local Resources and change their base calendar to
be the same as your projects calendar.

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Sumit

Dear Maria,

Assignments are based on resource's calendar. Please ensure that you are
using relevant base calendar for the resources. You can do this in Ent
Resource pool.

Regards,
Sumit.
 
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