How do I stop 1 day tasks splitting over 2 days?

[sc_p]

I am using Project 2003 and it has got an annoying habit of splitting most
tasks with a duration of 1 day into 7 hours of work on one day and 1 hour of
work the following day when you look at them within the Resource Usage view.
This is mucking up my Gantt chart as the tasks effectively look as if they
are 2 day tasks (although the duration cell definitely says 1 day). Any idea
what is causing the problem and how do I fix it? Things to note:

- The project calendar and resource calendars are definitely showing 8 hour
working days (8-12 then 1-5) so that isn’t causing the problem.
- If I have a task with a duration of more than one day Project splits it so
that the first day is 7 hours, middle days are 8 hours, and there if a final
day of 1 hour, so it doesn’t seem to have a problem fitting in 8 hours days.

Thanks.

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

I'd check two things:

1) Tools > Options > Calendar, and review the options there.

2) Tools > Options > View and add the time element to the data display.
See if there is a predecessor task that lasts one hour and is forcing all
tasks to start at 9AM instead of 8AM.




- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[JulieS]

In addition, check the start date/time of your project. That may
account for the 1 hour difference.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information about Microsoft Project

 

[Steve House]

In addition to the other comments, FYI, all durations are ALWAYS stored and
computed in minutes. When you say as task has a duration of "1-day" that
does not mean a single coming-to and going-from work for a resource.
Project looks at the setting for "hours-per-day" on the
Tools/Options/Calendar menu page and uses it to convert your entry into
minutes, with the default settings it would be 480.0 minutes. Then starting
whenever the task starts it ticks off 480 working time minutes according to
the work hours defined in your working time calendar and that's when the
task ends. The ONLY time you'll see a 1-day task actually start and end on
the same day is when it starts at the very start of the workday and the
length of the resource's workday calendar is the same as the hours-per-day
setting. If it starts any later than the first minute of the workday, when
the resource goes home at the end of the day there's still going to be some
X number of minutes left to go for the task to get up to the 480.0 total
minutes it requires and the task will resume at the start of the next
working day, continuing until those remaining extra minutes are burned up.

Andrew and Julie gave you the most likely reasons for the offset you see.
IF you go to the Tools/Options/View menu and select a date format that
includes the time the cause will probably jump right out at you.