Calendar Assignment

[Sue C]

I have several Enterprise Project Templates in which I have to change
the calendar for a certain resource from "None" (Standard), to 24x7 - a
calendar I've created. Only one resource is being assigned this
particular calendar. As I progress through the Template to change the
calendar on tasks assigned to this resource, I've come across a few
that have the "Calendar" choice in the "Advanced" tab greyed out, and
therefore cannot choose 24x7. Any ideas on why this might be?

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Sue:

Any chance you have the resource assigned to summary tasks?

 

[Sue C]

Gary,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I was going to send you a long list of scenarios that we've experienced
with different combinations of duration, start, finish, etc., but then
thought to ask you this question first:

Do all resources (a piece of equipment actually) assigned a 24x7
calendar also have to have the assigned task set at "elapsed days"
instead of "days" and also be set to Task Calendar 24x7?

This is the only case where I can get this to work, and I have to
change the Task Calendar to "24x7" first, then make Duration "elapsed
days"....it won't work in any other combination.

The question is, if the resource is assigned a 24x7 calendar why should
I have to mess around with changing the task to 24x7 calendar and the
duration to elapsed days? I would think the resource would hold these
defaults. Is one calendar overriding another?

PS - I have the equipment resource set up as a non-generic, enterprise
resource....not sure if that makes a difference.

Sue

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[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Sue:

I wouldn't call it overriding, but they do overlay each other. It's the
window of availability in the overlay, that the system uses to schedule.
When you assign the 24/7 calendar to the task, do you select the checkbox to
ignore the resource calendar?