Customise the Timescale

[Verossa]

Hi All

Is there a method to customise the timescale view so the label represents different periods to those available. There are 13 defined periods across the year in my project (see below) and am trying to incorporate these into my plan

Period 1: 01 Jan - 25 Ja
Period 2: 26 Jan - 13 Fe
Period 3: 16 Feb - 19 Ma
Period 4: 22 Mar - 16 Ap
Period 5: 19 Apr - 14 Ma
and so..

Originally the plan was set-up to book act.work on an 'end of month' basis. In task usage I changed the timescale view to months making the work booking task much easier. Booking act.work on a period basis creates a variance between the MS Project calendar and the corporate project periods that I cannot consolidate e.g. in Period 3 I can't book the time in Feb or Mar as it cuts across both months. Act.work (bookings) is delivered to me on a period basis with little definition on when the time was consumed across that period - so I was need to summarise the task usage timescale

I posted yeterday but not sure my post was very clear. I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to manage this scenario in MS Project

TIA - Vers

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Verossa,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

This cannot be done within Project. I doubt whether some vba code will do it
either, but you could try the developer newsgroup.

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

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Verossa]

Good Morning Mike

Thanks for responding - I think I will post in the developer forum but at least I know it won't happen straight out the box

Hope you're well
Vers

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome as usual, Vers

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP