Task Usage View 9-80 Work Week

[Jim Aksel]

I am creating a new project in P2003SP3 using a 9/80 work calendar.
I have created a new calendar (9/80) with every other Friday off, along with
company holidays. The new calendar is assigned to the Project.mpp and
ResourcePool.mpp, and all resources in ResourcePool.mpp have a base calendar
assigned as 9/80.

Tools/Options/Calendar Tab is changed to reflect 9/80 work week in both
Project.mpp and ResourcePool.mpp. Default work hours set to 9 hours (7AM-5PM
with a 1 hour lunch), 17 days per month, 45 hours/week.

Resources from the pool seem to assign to Project.mpp nicely and show a
proper hours spread of 9 hours/day and every other Friday off.

In the Task Usage View, I am expecting every Saturday and Sunday to show
gray, and every other Friday show Gray.

The work spreads correctly to the 9/80 schedule along with days off.
However, all Fridays still appear yellow (available). The Resource Usage
view shows every other Friday as non-work day.

Am I missing something with the Yellow on every Friday or is Project.mpp
being stuborn? I would like to see the non-working Fridays as gray in the
Task Usage view.

 

[John]

I am creating a new project in P2003SP3 using a 9/80 work calendar.
I have created a new calendar (9/80) with every other Friday off, along with
company holidays. The new calendar is assigned to the Project.mpp and
ResourcePool.mpp, and all resources in ResourcePool.mpp have a base calendar
assigned as 9/80.

Tools/Options/Calendar Tab is changed to reflect 9/80 work week in both
Project.mpp and ResourcePool.mpp. Default work hours set to 9 hours (7AM-5PM
with a 1 hour lunch), 17 days per month, 45 hours/week.

Resources from the pool seem to assign to Project.mpp nicely and show a
proper hours spread of 9 hours/day and every other Friday off.

In the Task Usage View, I am expecting every Saturday and Sunday to show
gray, and every other Friday show Gray.

The work spreads correctly to the 9/80 schedule along with days off.
However, all Fridays still appear yellow (available). The Resource Usage
view shows every other Friday as non-work day.

Am I missing something with the Yellow on every Friday or is Project.mpp
being stuborn? I would like to see the non-working Fridays as gray in the
Task Usage view.

Jim,
There must be some little gotcha in the way you have everything set up.
I have a sample resource pool file with two sharer files. I ran a quick
test by setting every other Friday as non-working. The resources use the
modified project calendar. I did not adjust the work hours to 9 nor did
I change any of the option settings. All views show the correct
non-working Fridays in the Gantt display.

Maybe you could "creep" up on it by starting with just the non-working
days like I did and then modify the other parameters one at a time until
you see a problem.

By the way, I used Project 2003. I did not try this with Project 2007.

John
Project MVP

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jim,

I am guessing your calendar is a custom calendar (New name) not a
modified standard. Project 2003 has a wonderful issue where it does not
set the nonworking time display to a modified calendar.(This usually
appears most obviously in the Gantt chart view.) From the Task Usage
view, choose Format > Timescale and select the Nonworking time tab.
Change the calendar. Is all as you expected?

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

Julie
Project MVP

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