Gantt Bar For 1 Day Task Is Huge Because Of Weekend Or Holiday

[Guest]

Say I have two tasks of equal duration (1-day each). One task starts on
Tuesday November 24th and appears about a 1/4" long on the Gantt Chart. The
other task starts on Wednesday Nobember 25th and because of the Thanksgiving
holiday and weekend it appears to be over 1" long, because it stretches
across the holiday and the weekend.

Is there a way to have the Gantt bar start as a bar on Wednesday and then
thin down to a blue line or something over the holiday and weekend and then
covert back to a bar again on Monday the 30th?

It's just that this huge 1" wide blue bar looks like a much larger task that
the smaller 1/4" blue bar even though they are of equal duration.

 

[PhilosophersSage]

You can split the task, I use 2003 and in the standard tool bar in the middle
is a split task option (a broken blue bar) just click on the bar in your
Gnatt Chart and drag it to where you want the split to end.

 

[José Miguel Piñeres]

Hello!

Welcome to this Microsoft Project General Questions Discussion Group.

You can try using the Timescale Formatting Options to display the
non-working time in front of the task bars. Double click on the timescale and
select the "Non-working time" tab.

I hope this can be useful. Please let us know how you get along with it.

Best regards,

 

[Projectability]

You can elect to draw non-working time in front of Gantt Bars, this option
is available from the Format>Timeline dialogue box.

However whilst this will show tasks "interrupted" by the weekend thus
eliminating the apparently inaccurate display of the Gantt Bar in terms of
length it can result in Milestones being "chopped in half " if they are
scheduled on a Monday morning or Friday evening. Also if you use a Task
Calendar to show a task being worked on over a weekend you will not be able
to see the task if you are drawing non-working time in front of task bars.

I have had interesting differences of opinion with users in the past over
this issue - the common complaint being "but we don't work over a weekend" -
to which I advise that the bar spans from the beginning to the end of the
task but that there is no work scheduled on the weekend, sadly this does not
always placate objectors.

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[Guest]

Thanks Jose and Projectability, having the non-working time drawns in front
of the task bars seems to be a pretty good solution for now.

Thanks for the tips.