Calendar Hierachy

[Jonathan]

The earlier post on "Order of precedence for calendars" helped a little, but
I wanted to post my specific situation for feedback...

I have two calendar templates specified in the Enterprise Global -- Standard
(mon-fri 8h/day) and Extended (mon-sat 10h/day). Most of our projects will
follow the Standard calendar, but ocassionally, we elevate a certain project
to overtime mode (Extended). What is the correct progression to update this
escalated project and its resources without changing the other standard
projects?

Here is what I tried:
1. In the escalated project's file, I changed project calendar to Extended.
This affected only the tasks that were not assigned to resources -- the
assigned tasks remained the same.
2. I opened the assigned resources in the Global Resource Pool and changed
each of their calendars to Extended. Once I saved and reopened the project
file, the assigned tasks were affected as desired. However, I opened another
project on a standard calendar that uses one of the altered resources, and
that project was affected, as well.

From the previously mentioned post, it appears that the Resource Calendar
assigned to a resource overrides the Project Calendar. That would explain
why #1 didn't work, and #2 did work. The problem is that the Resource
Calendar appears to be global without regard to the differing projects.

The post does mention that the Task Calendar trumps the Resource Calendar --
should I have elevated the individual tasks instead of the project or the
resources? If so, I was hoping for a more robust solution for calendar
adjustments -- we have a predictable slow/busy cycle, and I was hoping to
control the allocation of hours through the assignment of project calendar.

???

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Jonathan --

In a scenario such as yours, I would recommend that you select all
uncompleted tasks in the "elevated" project and assign the Extended calendar
as a task calendar on those tasks. Remember to select the "Scheduling
ignores resource calendars" option when doing so. I think that would be the
simplest solution to your problem. Hope this helps.