Decimal numbers for duration/work

[Peter M.]

Hello there.
When creating projects in Project Professional, one creates tasks with a
certain duration and a certain amount of hours of work (we use fixed work
task type). So far so good. Now as we know, Project distributes the work
evenly to all days of the duration given for every resource's calendar.
Now, it occurs very often, that these figures are like 2.98h or 5.94h and so
they appear on the user's task and timesheet pages. This is just very very
annoying and affects clarity heavily.
Same thing occurs occasionally in Project itself, when it sets Duration to
49.96d or 10.02d instead of using even numbers.

This is a very annoying issue. I hope someone is familiar with it and can
help out.

Thanks!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Peter M --

You are seeing the default behavior of Microsoft Project and Project Server.
You are correct that the software distributes Work in a flat pattern across
the Duration of a task, sometimes resulting in the decimal values you see.
There's no way to change this behavior, so the best you can do is live with
it. Hope this helps.