calendars ang lags

[Mikhail]

Hello,

which MS Project setting affects how MSP calculates lags?

I can see that the same project on different installations
of MS Project looks differently: some installations use
project's calendar while others use task's one.

Where I can set the rule for how to process lags?

Thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hello,

Should I answer your question straightaway, and using Project's terminology,
the anwer is simple:

Project does not calculate lags. Lags are input by the user (see help on
Lag)

As for task calendars: Task calendars, if they exist, always take the better
of projet calendars.
But in Project 98 Task Calendars did not exist so if that is your case
obviouslt Project folds back to Project Calendars.

HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
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[Mikhail]

Should I answer your question straightaway, and using Project's terminology,

the anwer is simple:

Sorry for my English.

As for task calendars: Task calendars, if they exist, always take the better
of projet calendars.
But in Project 98 Task Calendars did not exist so if that is your case
obviouslt Project folds back to Project Calendars.

That is not the case.

I checked 3 installations of MSP 2002 (English, Russian and Spanish) and
2 installations of MSP 2003 (English and Russian)

Consider the simple project:

task1: (duration: 0d
task2: (duration: 0d, predecessors: 1FS+10d)

then set calendar for task2, that differs from project calendar.

what is going on with task2?
it is shifted if I do this on MSP2002-Esp, MSP2003-Eng, and MSP2003-Rus
it is not shifted if I do this on MSP2002-Eng, MSP2002-Rus.

Moreover, if I save this project on one installation
and open it on another, project will look differently (

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Mikhail

Project 2003 has corrected a problem with lags where the lag followed the
Stndard calendar and not the Task Calendar. Time to upgrade to 2003 perhaps
?

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Mikhail]

Hi Mike,

Do you mean that 2003 is incompatible with 2002?

I see that project stored by MSP 2002 looks
differently if viewed by MSP 2003.
Do you mean there is no setting to prevent it?

I receive projects from my partners around the world,
and I can not force everybody to move to 2003.

Moreover I know that even some 2002 installations
use task's calendar rather then project's one.
So I cannot just ask my partners for which version
they have.

One more sucks from Microsoft...

 

[JulieD]

Hi Mikhail

i have the same problem - the workaround seems to be that in ver 2000 & 2002
lags need to be entered as elapsed time (e.g. 1ed rather than 1d).

Maybe you could ask your partners around the world to do this - or change it
when you get the schedules.

Regards
JulieD

 

[Mike Glen]

No, Mikhail, I did not mean that It's just that prior versions
calculated the lags according to the Standard calendar settings. For 2003,
Microsoft has responded to what people has asked for: that 2003 recognises
Task calendar settings for the lags.

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP