Calendar and Holidays

[anovak]

Greetings,

I have a special calendar for our organization that includes
"exception" non-working days for 11/26 and 11/27 (Thanksgiving
holiday). We also have "dummy" projects like Absence where folks
enter their time via My Tasks whereby. The entire team is assigned at
0 hours ahead of time so the "task" shows up in My Tasks. All
operational activities are posted this way.

Anyway, apparently there is a bug in Project Server (I'm at the June
CU) where when someone enters time for 11/26 and 11/27 in My Tasks in
the "Absence" task, Project Server either copies or moves the time
entered to 11/30 and 12/1. This is due to the non-working time setup
in the calendar.

If I change the calendar in the "Absence" project to "Standard
Calendar", that appears to fix the problem, but if at least one of the
resources uses our custom calendar, does that have any impact as
well? I thought that if a resource has days blocked off in their
personal calendar that the scheduler bypasses those days as if the
project calendar had those flagged as non-working as well.

I recall that in order to "override" the calendar at the task level
you have to check "Ignore Resource Calendars". Is that not applicable
when the calendar is changed at the Project level?

Short story is if I just change the project calendar alone, is will
that suffice?

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT

 

[Jonathan Sofer [MVP]]

You have a lot of moving parts in the scenario and so the best thing to do
is to model out the different test cases.

Ignoring task updates via PWA for now and speaking only about Project
Professional and scheduling and calendar behavior, it should work as
follows:

If there are no resources assigned to the task, the project calendar takes
precedence
If there is a resource assigned to the task, the resource's calendar takes
precedence
Like you said, if you apply a task calendar to the task and check the box to
ignore resource calendars, the the task calendar will take precedence over
both the resource calendar and the project calendar. Changing the project
calendar mid way should not affect this.

Jonathan

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Andy:

You should upgrade to the October CU and/or December CU when it comes out.
You're hitting bugs that Microsoft is working on. I believe there are fixes
in Oct and more in Dec.

 

[anovak]

You have a lot of moving parts in the scenario and so the best thing to do
is to model out the different test cases.

Ignoring task updates via PWA for now and speaking only about Project
Professional and scheduling and calendar behavior, it should work as
follows:

If there are no resources assigned to the task, the project calendar takes
precedence
If there is a resource assigned to the task, the resource's calendar takes
precedence
Like you said, if you apply a task calendar to the task and check the boxto
ignore resource calendars, the the task calendar will take precedence over
both the resource calendar and the project calendar.  Changing the project
calendar mid way should not affect this.

Jonathan

What if there are resources assigned to the task but at 0% Units / 0
Hours? (for time reporting actuals only). Would the resource
calendar even play a part?