Changing working times

[joe]

I am trying to set up a schedule where everyone is working 5 days/week, 8 hours/day for the design phase. When we go to the construction phase I want to go to a 6 days/week, 12 hours/day.
The problem is that when I put in the information and work with the durations to get the start and finish days that I want the program is telling me that I have 82 days between February 2 and April 5, even though I have changed the working times on the Standard(Project Schedule) to 6 (12 hour) days for the time framer in question
If I change the general settings under Tools/Options/Calendar to use the 6 (12 hour) days, then the design phase of my schedule has 43 days between October 2 and December 31.
Is there any way to set this up so that the duration time logically matches the start and finish dates?

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

In construction projects I usually have two schedules, one for design, the
other for construction. This lets you have two different calendars.

If you still want one schedule, then in Tools, Change Working time, create a
new base calendar called Construction that is 6 working days. \Select View,
Resource Sheet and set the calendar for each construction resource to be
Construction. Now all construction resource work the hours in the
Construction calendar and design staff work the hours in the Standard
calendar.

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I am trying to set up a schedule where everyone is working 5 days/week, 8

hours/day for the design phase. When we go to the construction phase I want
to go to a 6 days/week, 12 hours/day.

The problem is that when I put in the information and work with the

durations to get the start and finish days that I want the program is
telling me that I have 82 days between February 2 and April 5, even though I
have changed the working times on the Standard(Project Schedule) to 6 (12
hour) days for the time framer in question.

If I change the general settings under Tools/Options/Calendar to use the

6 (12 hour) days, then the design phase of my schedule has 43 days between
October 2 and December 31.

Is there any way to set this up so that the duration time logically

matches the start and finish dates?

 

[Steve House]

Note that the menu Tools/Options/Calendar does NOT change the working
times. It's a table of conversion factors and only changes the
definition of a project standard "day."


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Steve House
MS Project MVP
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I am trying to set up a schedule where everyone is working 5

days/week, 8 hours/day for the design phase. When we go to the
construction phase I want to go to a 6 days/week, 12 hours/day.

The problem is that when I put in the information and work with the

durations to get the start and finish days that I want the program is
telling me that I have 82 days between February 2 and April 5, even
though I have changed the working times on the Standard(Project
Schedule) to 6 (12 hour) days for the time framer in question.

If I change the general settings under Tools/Options/Calendar to use

the 6 (12 hour) days, then the design phase of my schedule has 43 days
between October 2 and December 31.

Is there any way to set this up so that the duration time logically

matches the start and finish dates?