non-working days not taken into account for some tasks

[dtimoce]

Hello

I'm having this buggy problem in MSP 2003: i have several tasks that
include some non-working days ( end of this year and begining of the
new year). I see the non-working time ( selected in the project's
calendar ) greyed in the gantt-chart view, but the tasks durations are
not taking into account these non-working days ?

Anyone seen this kind of problem before and has an workaround ?

Thanking you in advance
Regards
D TIMOCE

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Not buggy but by design.
Durations don't take non working days into account.
HTH

 

[dtimoce]

Hmm .. Some tasks are resized taking this into account ..
So the only solution is to manually resize task's duration ?? I hate
mpp .. It makes you feel it's gonna help and when things get a bit
complex, everything is turned upside down ..

 

[Dave]

Hmm .. Some tasks are resized taking this into account ..
So the only solution is to manually resize task's duration ?? I hate
mpp .. It makes you feel it's gonna help and when things get a bit
complex, everything is turned upside down ..

But they have to be. If a task would take two 'normal' weeks to
complete, then it necessarily must take longer in elapsed terms if the
period in which it is being carried out contains non-working time due to
holidays or other reasons.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi ,

No, the Durations you have already entered should be left alone, as the
Duration is a measure of working time. It's the end date that will go out
to accommodate nonworking times.


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[JulieS]

Hi D Timoce,

I for one, am a bit confused. To clarify a bit, you say some tasks are
"resized" to take non-working days into account. By that, I assume you mean
the finish date is changing so the duration is only counting working days to
determine the finish date.

I assume that with some other tasks, the finish date is not adjusting so it
appears as though the holidays you have added to the project calendar are
being ignored for scheduling purposes.

To help track this down a bit further, a couple of questions:

For the tasks where finish date is not adjusting, do you have resources
assigned to those tasks? If so, check that the resource's base calendar (go
to the Resource Sheet) is the same as the project calendar you set in
Project > Project Information. I have upon occassion seen where a calendar
other than "Standard" has been used as the Project Calendar, but the user
forgets to set the resource's base calendar. MS Project uses the "Standard"
calendar as the base calendar for resources.

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

Julie

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[dtimoce]

Hello and thanks everyoby ..

I'm the problem here .. I've checked again the charges and finish
dates for the tasks i was having "troubles" with and it's ... all ok.
It's just that only the 1st task including non-working days appears
dotted, and i was expecting the others to be displayed just the same ..

I've checked all that you suggested and remembered a few things with
this occasion though

Thanks again for your quick answers !

Regards
Daniel

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Daniel

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP