Selecting specific work times for every day in a calendar

[DannyG]

I want to select specific work times to do work on a project from 9pm to 1am
every day but when I tried to do this, the work times I specified would not
change.

 

[DavidC]

Hi DannyG,

Is the specific times you want to reflect, related to the resoruce or the
task? Times are set up in various places. The first is the calendars where
you can change the time for each individual day or selected days, the second
is in the Calnedar tab of the 'tools/options', where the project defaut
setting is mad.

I suspect from yoru query that you want to change the default working day
from 8:00am to 5:00pm, to 9:00pm to 1:00am. This ensures that the
calculations required for project to give you a correct answer to your
schedule.

however you also need to select all the working days in the calendar used
for the project and manually change the start and finish times. However
remember that this shift works across two days. So the shift needs to show:

Start 12:00am finish 1:00am, then start 9:00pm finish 12:00am. This is the
reality on any particular day, you start the shift on one day and finish the
next hence the odd way of setting the time.

Hope this helps


Regards

DavidC

 

[Roland67]

If you want to change the work time for all tasks/resources then you'd want
to change the work times in Tools--Options area or on the project's calendar.
If its only on a task you'd want to create/update a task calendar which
allows those hours to be valid work times. Hope this helps.

 

[JulieS]

Danny,

I am assuming the problem you are having is trying to make the
working time span over midnight. Take a look at the built-in
"Night Shift" calendar to see a sample of how to create working
time that spans from one night to the next morning.

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]

Important: Changing the "Default Start" and "Default Finish" fields on the
Tools/Options/Calendar page DOES NOT change the start and end times for the
workday! You MUST change the times in the calendar in ChangeWorkingTime if
you wish to change the actual working day start and end time. All date
fields in Project are actually date/time fields - time is always a component
whether you choose to display it or not. When you choose to manually type a
date into a field, such as when setting a constraint, but do not explicitly
provide the time element, Project must assume a time. The Tools/Options
page default Start and Finish fields allow you to specify what time it will
supply when you make such manual date entries. Changing the times here DOES
NOT affect the working time calendar in any way.

 

[Steve House]

See my previous note to David. Changing the default start and finish times
in the Tools/Options/Calendar page DOES NOT change the workday start and end
times or influence the working time calendar in any way.