Changing Duration

[Karyn Ryan]

I would like to set the duration for all tasks of my project (41 dates) to include weekends. I haven't been able to figure out how to reset the default from 5 work days/wk to 7. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear from you! Thank you.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Karyn --

To accomplish this, you could use a project calendar that shows 7 days each
week as work days. To do this, you would need to create a new calendar by
completing the following steps:

1. Open the project in question
2. Click Tools - Change Working Time
3. Click the New button
4. Name your new calendar something like "7-day Work Week"
5. Click the OK button
6. Select the Sunday and Saturday column headers and select the "Nondefault
working time" option
7. Click OK

Once you have created this new calendar, you will need to set this calendar
as both the Project calendar and the Nonworking time calendar. To do so,
complete these steps:

1. Click Project - Project Information
2. Click the Calendar drop-down list and select your new calendar
3. Click OK
4. Click Format - Timescale and select the Nonworking time tab
5. Click the Calendar drop-down list and select the new calendar
6. Click the OK button

This is one approach to solve your problem. Hope this helps.

I would like to set the duration for all tasks of my project (41 dates) to

include weekends. I haven't been able to figure out how to reset the
default from 5 work days/wk to 7. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love
to hear from you! Thank you.

 

[Steve House]

Dale gave you a way to do this but before you actually put it into
practice step back and re-think whether you really want to or not. If
the project is based on the assumption that every day is a working day,
that means work takes place every day of the week. But a "task" is
usually the activity done by ONE resource or resource team. That
implies that if Joe is assigned to wax widgets, once he starts working
on it he will never take a day off until it's done, even if it takes
several weeks. If that's the work schedule your resources really will
do, fine, go for it. But that would be a very very rare organization
indeed that doesn't give people time off.

Duration normally only includes time that is available for work so that
the relationship between duration time and man-hours of labour holds up.
If you need the know how much "real time" such as your watch tracks or
you see on a wall calendar that a task takes, you should use elapsed
time. There between Mon 8am and Fri 5pm there are 128 elapsed hours but
40 work hours. Since work won't take place unless people are there to
do it, duration the preferable measure to use.

--
Steve House
MS Project MVP
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

I would like to set the duration for all tasks of my project (41

dates) to include weekends. I haven't been able to figure out how to
reset the default from 5 work days/wk to 7. If anyone knows how to fix
this I'd love to hear from you! Thank you.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi All,

Best of both worlds:.
You can have Dave's calendar as Project Calendar and have all resource
calendars show time off during the weekend.
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
32-495-300 620

 

[Steve House]

Yep - good plan...

Steve House
MS Project MVP

Hi All,

Best of both worlds:.
You can have Dave's calendar as Project Calendar and have all resource
calendars show time off during the weekend.
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
32-495-300 620