working hours problem

[Fei]

I uses my own customized calendar called MyCalendar1 for my project. In this
calendar I defined 7.5hours/working day. But when I switch Resource Usage
view my tasks are split up in 8hours/working day, why is this?

 

[John]

I uses my own customized calendar called MyCalendar1 for my project. In this
calendar I defined 7.5hours/working day. But when I switch Resource Usage
view my tasks are split up in 8hours/working day, why is this?

Fei,
There could be several reasons. When you created your customized
calendar, did you set up the shift hours under "From" and "To",
(Tools/Change Working Time), to total 7.5 hours? If not you need to do
that. Also, if you have any customized resource calendars, they must
also be set up for 7.5 hour shifts.

Changing the Hours per day under Tools/Options/Calendar will only affect
how Project displays days in the Duration field. It does NOT set the
working shift for 7.5 hours.

To properly set up a 7.5, (or any other custom work day), you need to
set both the shift work times and and hours per day to be consistent.

Hope this helps.

John
Project MVP

 

[Fei]

thanks John, very helpful response.
When I got into (Tools/Change Working Time) and select the customized
calendar, I see on the right "Working times for 14 May 2008: *08:00 to 12:00,
*13:00 to 17:00". but when I click on button Option on the bottom, my Default
Start Time is 08:30, Default End Time is 16:00. the Hours per day is 7.50.
As I realized the difference but I couldn't find a way to fix it. Any idea?
thanks in advance

 

[John]

thanks John, very helpful response.
When I got into (Tools/Change Working Time) and select the customized
calendar, I see on the right "Working times for 14 May 2008: *08:00 to 12:00,
*13:00 to 17:00". but when I click on button Option on the bottom, my Default
Start Time is 08:30, Default End Time is 16:00. the Hours per day is 7.50.
As I realized the difference but I couldn't find a way to fix it. Any idea?
thanks in advance

Fei,
If you want 7.5 hour work days, you will need to change the "From" and
"To" times for a total of 7.5 hours, and you will need to do that for
all days. The easiest way to do that is to click and drag the "M"
through "F" heading (assuming a normal workweek) and then change the
shift times as desired. That will select all work days for all months
and they will then show as "nondefault working time". Under
Tools/Options/Calendar, set the default start and end times to agree
with whatever you use for the shift times.

Hope this helps.

John
Project MVP