Holidays in Microsft Project

[Andrew Barker]

Help needed.

I have successfully created my project plan but have noticed that some of
the tasks are schedueld for the 25th, 26th of December and 1st of January. I
obviously wish to make these holidays and have done so by creating my own
calender making these non working days and uploading the info via project
information. Unfortunatly the changes do not seem to appear within the plan,
the task still shows work during these periods. Therefore my question is this
do I have to create my calender at the start of a project before any tasks
are entered or is project supposed to amend the working times according to
the non wokring times when a project calender is created be this at the
start, middle or end ? I have for the moment created a work around by
splitting the task into two and entering the appropriate start and end dates
so as to avoid work during these periods?

Any help gratfully receieved.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Project will take calendar changes into account even after tasks are
introduced.
Do these tasks have a resource attached? Do they have task calendars?
Resource Calendars and Task Calendars always take precedence over the
project calendar.
Hope this helps

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Andrew,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You need to go into Project/Project Information and select you new calendar
as the project calendar.

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

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials

 

[Steve House]

Are you sure you're seeing what you think you're seeing <g>? Lets say I
haven't entered any holiday information and I have a 10 day task starting 20
Dec. It'll show starting 8am 20 Dec and finishing 5pm 02 Jan. Ooops, need
holidays. So I make 25/12, 26/12, 01/01 non-working days in the Project
calendar. Task now ends 3 days later, 05 Jan at 5pm, just as it should with
the added time off in the middle. But I still see a continuous bar in the
Gantt chart because the bar is simply drawn from the start to the finish
without being interrupted for weekends or holidays - it doesn't stop and
restart for non-working time. Though it's not necessary to do this in order
to have the schedule dates be correct, if you want the task bars broken at
non-working days for some reason, right click in the timeline, choose
"timeline" and "non-working time" and select the check box to put the
vertical grey non-working bars in front of the task bars.