Setting Times and Dates for tasks

[Josh]

I am trying to set up a task that tasks a small amount of time (an hour for
example) but the start and finish dates are about a week apart, causing the
duration time to be much larger than it actually is. In other words, the
task needs to be done during this week, but it does no take a week to do. Is
there any way to set it up so that it doesn't effect the duration time and
still shows the accurate start and finish dates?

 

[daleatshel]

Try setting your Project Information Calendar to 24 hours instead of Standard

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Josh,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You seem to be confusing Duration (1 week) and Work (1 hour). In the Gantt
view, set up a task with a duration of 5 days. Make sure you have the task
selected, then Window/Split, click in the bottom screen, make the Task type:
Fixed Duration and click OK to set Project in this mode. Now add a resource
and make the Work 1hour and OK. This will set the Units to 3%, and should
be what you're after.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #5 & 10 on resource assignments, 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 articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP