Task

[Matt]

Hello all,

I'm fairly new to project and am ammending a project already created by
someone else, my specific problem is that i don't want some of my tasks to be
split over the none working part of the day. Basically all my task are
between 15mins and 4hours each and my working days are 8hours long. My
problem is that my 4hour tasks have to be completed in one go, therefore I
don't want project to start the 4hour task on a day if they can not be
completed that day.

If someone knows if/how i can overcome this problem it would be much
appreciated.
I am using Project Standard 2003

Regards
Matt

 

[Jim Aksel]

This is going to get a little tricky because you might have a 15 minute
predecessor that starts at 8AM. This means you cannot start a 4 hour
succesor until 1PM. However, if that 15 minute predecessor finishes at 5PM
yesterday then you are good to go this morning on your 4 hour task.

Generally here is what you need to do:
Create two new calendars, lets; call them Morning Start and Afternoon Start.
In the morning start, you have the work hours set for 1 minute on all normal
work days (yes, there is only one minute of work the whole day). That minute
starts and ends before 8AM (the normal start time for the other calendars).

You have two tasks A and C. There is a FS relationship between them. C
must start at either 8AM or 1PM becuase it is 4 hours and cannot split over
lunch.

Insert a Task B as a 1 minute task without resources. It is just a dummy
task. Link A-B-C all as FS. Assign the calendar "Morning Start" to Task B.
Now, task B will always complete at 7:59AM on a work day. Task "C" will
then start immediately after at 8AM on the same day.

Same story for afternoon start. If you want "C" to start at 1PM then you
would assign task B with Calendar "Afternoon Start" which has one minute of
work at 12:59PM.

Look for trouble: Since you probably cannot track things so very tightly,
you will need to perhaps be "dynamically" changing the calendar on Task B to
swtich between a morning and an afternoon task. A macro could be written to
do this and have it automatically run on opening of the file or changes to
the file. That's somewhat tedious. At least for baseline purposes you will
not need the dynamic potion.

Let's see who else contributes


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