Working Days

[Chris S]

I have a project in which I am working 4-10 hours shifts (Monday -Thursday).
The project needs to be completed within a certain number of working days. I
am being charged a working day for Fridays although I am not working. How
can I set up my calendar to count Fridays as working days and yet only show
work being performed Monday through Thursday?

Thanks, in advance.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

You can't.
If you work Mon-Thurs then the calendar for that work should be Mon-Thur.
You can of course create a different calendar for calculating work days if
you like but you can't have a single calendar which does both.

Go to tools menu / change working time and create a calendar called
something like Four Tens and apply it to either the resources which are
working that sort of shift or the tasks which are being worked on using that
sort of shift. You can then create a summary task which can show the working
time according to the standard calendar.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Steve House]

When you say you are being "charged" for Fridays even though they are not
working days, what are you referring to? Are you having trouble with
Project's costing working out properly for your particular scenario? Or are
you saying that the Friday is counted against the allowable number of days
to complete the project even though it's not actually a working day for you?
When you say it must be completed in a certain number of working days, what
does you really mean? Project does all of its calculations in hours
(actually, minutes to the nearest 10th to be precise but hours are easier to
discuss because the numbers are easier). If a standard workday is 8 hours,
Mon thru Fri would be 5 days or 40 hours. But since you work 10 hour days,
Mon thru Thur is ALSO 40 hours and Project will show it as 5 days duration,
not 4. So your problem may not really be a problem after all. If you will
take 20 days to complete your Project and it starts June 02, it will finish
on June 24. Each of YOUR workdays is 1.25 regular workdays. So 20 days of
duration will have transpired when you have worked 16 of your extended
workdays.