Set start & finish dates for a duration that is not consecutive?

[CDC31]

How do you set the start and finish date for a specified duration that is not
consecutive days? Ie, the task takes 5 days (duration set to 5 days) but
instead of starting Mar 1 and ending Mar 5, it starts Mar 1 and ends Mar 30.
So the total time the task takes is 5 days but the work is spread out over a
longer period of time.

 

[Manmeet Chaudhari]

HI
You can split the task, make it fixed duration and increase the amount of
work being done on that task.

Hope this helps

Thanks
Manmeet Chaudhari

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi CDC31,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Firstly, you don't! You should not be entering dates. Enter Tasks,
Durations and precedence links and let Project do what it was designed for -
to calculate the schedule based on your inputted data. You're also confusing
Duration of 30 days (the working time span between start and finish) with
Work 5*8 hours per day= 40 hours ( the number of man-hours required).

However, having entered a task for 30 days Duration, go to Window/Split.
Make sure your task is selected in the top pane. Now you want the Duration
to remain at 30 days, so change the Task Type to Fixed Duration and click
the OK button to set that mode. Click on Resource Name in the bottom pane,
and enter its name. Change the 240 hours in the Work column by typing 40
and OK. The Units will change to 17%, ie the resource will be required to
work 17% of his 8 hour day on this task.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #5 on resources, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Steve House]

Firstly, you need to decide if you mean that 5 mandays of work will be
performed slowly over the course of 30 days of duration or do you mean that
the work will start and stop several times over the course of 30 days with
the work occupying the resource full time while he's actually working but
with intervening gaps where there's no activity?