Calendars and Duration

[rfreschner]

I've set the default calendar in my Project 2007 project to a 6 hour day for
internal resources and when I enter 6 hours, duration equals 1 day. I've
added another calendar for Consultant resources that I've set working times
to 8 hour days. How do I get the duration to equal 1 day for these resources
when I enter 8 hours - right now it continues to use the 6 hour day.

 

[Crook]

Hi,

You could set up your consultants with individual resource calendars.

HTH,
Crook

 

[rfreschner]

That doesn't seem to help. I set up the resources based on an 8 hour a day
calendar (8:00 to 12:00, 1:00 to 5:00) and if I go into Change Working Time
and select the individual resource calendar it shows 8 hours with no effect
on the duration.

It appears that it doesn't matter what I put in the individual calendars if
the projects default working day is 6 hours.

Thanks for the reply though.

Rick

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

There can only be one definition of "a day".
You can set it in Tools,, Options, Calendar.
Whatever individual calendars you use will only define when the work (which
Projet internally keeps as minutes) will be scheduled.
But if you want to display durations and work as days, there is only one
definition possible, sorry.
HTH

 

[rfreschner]

Jan - If I understand you correctly, when my default day is 6 hours then the
duration will be set using this figure for all resources no matter what their
individual calendar might say. In my example, an 8 hour employee will show a
duration of 1.33 days for 8 hours instead of 1 day, but the Start and Finish
dates will reflect the fact that the resource is working the 8 hours. Is
that right?

Rick

 

[Steve House]

Absolutely correct - if a "standard day" (think "ship's standard day" from
StartTrek <grin>) is defined as 6 working hours, someone who puts in 8 hours
on a given day of the week working 8am to 5pm will have worked 1.33 working
days during that single day. Project tracks duration in minutes to the
nearest 10th. It allows you to use units of day, week, month, etc only as a
matter of your convenience but "day" doesn't mean a period from a sunrise to
a sunset, it always means a single specific count of minutes, fixed at the
project level.

 

[rfreschner]

Thanks Steve and Jan -- I think I've got it now.

Rick

Absolutely correct - if a "standard day" (think "ship's standard day" from
StartTrek <grin>) is defined as 6 working hours, someone who puts in 8 hours
on a given day of the week working 8am to 5pm will have worked 1.33 working
days during that single day. Project tracks duration in minutes to the
nearest 10th. It allows you to use units of day, week, month, etc only as a
matter of your convenience but "day" doesn't mean a period from a sunrise to
a sunset, it always means a single specific count of minutes, fixed at the
project level.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

Jan - If I understand you correctly, when my default day is 6 hours then
the
duration will be set using this figure for all resources no matter what
their
individual calendar might say. In my example, an 8 hour employee will
show a
duration of 1.33 days for 8 hours instead of 1 day, but the Start and
Finish
dates will reflect the fact that the resource is working the 8 hours. Is
that right?

Rick