How do I use calendar days instead of work days for duration?

[cbc87]

I have a client that insists that we present our schedules showing durations
in calendar days in lieu of work days. How can I do this?

For these projects, we do not have any resource or workload tracking
requirements. It is purely a schedule need. Please help....

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello,
In the English version, enter the duration like this : 10ed for 10 elapsed
days

Gérard Ducouret

 

[cbc87]

I have tried the edays approach. It works OK until I have indented items.
When they total up to the heading it reverts to work days. Any way around
this? I need the totals to be in calendar days also.

 

[JulieS]

Hi cbc87,

You can try a trick that I suggested to another user.

There is a work around using a custom duration field and a custom calendar.
Create a new calendar (Tools>Change Working Time). Copy the project
calendar, name it (I used 7Day) and make Saturdays & Sundays working days.
Then insert a custom duration field ([Duration1] for example) in the task
table. Choose Tools>Customize > Fields and select the [Duration1] field.
Click the Formula... button and use the following formula:

ProjDateDiff([Start],[Finish],"7Day")

In the Customize fields dialog box, click the Use Formula option for the
task and group summary rows.

This will calculate the number of calendar days between the start of the
task and the finish of the task using the 7Day calendar. .

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie