Making Saturday Working Day

[Pallavi]

Hello,

I am working on Microsoft Project 2000. I want to make the calendar
for my project as saturday working day. I created a new calendar
before creating the project schedule with only sunday as non-working
day. And, after creating project and before creating schedule, I
assigned the calendar to the project (Project->Project
Information...). But, still when I assign 2 day schedule starting from
Friday, the Calendar view shows the task from Friday to Monday instead
of Friday to Saturday.
Can you help me how can I resolve this issue?
Thanx in advance..

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello,
If your calendar is well defined, it may be an issue about work time.
Look at the FAQ #5 : Default Working hours

http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Paul]

Or you could just let the people off on Satursday and
close the shop down. I am sure they deserve the break,
besides, it will solve your calendar issue.

 

[Chris]

When you assign the custom calendar to the task, you
should check the box "Scheduling ignores resource
calendars"

 

[Pallavi]

Hi,
Thanx a lot for your suggestion, but this should be given to our boss.
I am just an employee.
Still, it is not properly creating the schedule. I started off again
from the beginning. Set the options from Tools->Options->Calendar.
Made hrs per week as 48 and days per month as 25. Also before creating
new project, I created 1 calendar. & the whole procedure as before..
but, still the same result. And, now it is showing like, if I enter
2 days starting from Wed, then it shows Start date as Wed and Finish
date as Fri instead of Thu. I am totally confused. Will you just test
these things on your PC and tell me whare I am getting wrong?

Pallavi.

 

[Pallavi]

Hello,

I got the solution for this. I was setting working time just for the
new calendar that I was creating. These working day assignment should
be made for all the resources that are used in the project. So, I also
set saturday as working day for my name 'Pallavi' in 'Change Working
time' screen. Now, it is working fine. Thank you everybody..

Pallavi.

 

[Pallavi]

But, this setting I have to make for all the task. Instead, it is less
tedious to update resource calendar itself.
Am I right? What do you think?

Pallavi

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Yes, you are right! The best way is to assign *your* calendar to the
resources in the Resource Sheet.

Gérard Ducouret