Timescale Duration Bars = Actual Duration?

[Holland]

How can I get the timescale bars to equal the values in the duration column?

Thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

What exactly do you mean? Which view? What are "timescale bars"?
Bars normally havve a length proportional to duration...
HTH

 

[John]

How can I get the timescale bars to equal the values in the duration column?

Thanks

Holland,
By timescale bars I assume you mean the Gantt bars. My first question
is, are you sure that is what you really want to do? The Duration field
shows working time based on a default 5 day work week at 8 hours per
day. However, elapsed time can be shown in the Duration column by either
changing the default calendar (and some options) to a 24 hour work day
or by simply entering duration values in elapsed time (e.g. 10ed for 10
elapsed days). On the other hand, the Gantt bars normally show elapsed
time. They can be configured to show working time but it would be very
confusing. For example, let's say a task starts on Monday and has a
duration of 10 days (i.e. goes through Friday of the following week).
The normal Gantt bar will show a bar from Monday through Friday of the
following week. However, if the Gantt bar was showing working time, it
would go from Monday through Wednesday of the following week. That's
because the Gantt bars always including non-working time - in this case
the weekend.

Now, it that really what you want to do?

John
Project MVP