Task calendars on Milestones

[Ellen Lehnert, PMP]

A client I have is trying to apply task calendars to milestones. This only
seems to work on tasks that are not milestones and have some duration or
tasks with resources. Do you know anything about this situation??

Thanks.

 

[JulieS]

Hello Ellen,

Tasks with zero duration are not subject to calendars of any sort. As
they have zero duration they can occur at any time. Set the duration as
1 minute, mark the task as a milestone and you should be all set.

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

Julie
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[Jim Aksel]

Calendars may be applied to milestones. A milestone is task with 0 duration.

Example, a meeting is always held on a Friday, but all predecessors for that
meeting must be complete as well. How do you handle a situation where the
predecessors do not finish until the following Tuesday and the meeting is
then pushed back a week and not forced to start on Wednesday?

Create a special calendar where the only work days are Thursdays. Create a
series of tasks with appropriate predecessors, etc. These tasks would use a
normal calendar. There will be one additional single milestone "Meeting
Preparation Complete." Assign the special calendar (Thursdays only) to this
task which means it can only complete on a Thursday.
Make the milestone a precessor to the Friday meeting. The Firday meeting
would use the standard (normal, or project) calendar.
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[Ellen Lehnert, PMP]

Exactly what I needed - thanks. They are trying to track a line of
milestones that are occuring in Japan and subject to the Japanese calendar -
works great.

 

[JulieS]

You're welcome Ellen and thanks for the feedback.

Julie
Project MVP