default working days

[Remington]

By default, holidays and weekends aside, a task starts on
Dec 10 ends on Dec 11 is treated and shown as '1 working
day'.

Am wondering if it is possible to auto-change to '2
working days'.

Please kindly help me out here.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Remington,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

The Duration is a measure of the working time between the start and end of a
task. If it starts at midday on 10 Dec and finishes on 11 Dec at midday, it
will have a Duration of one day: ie 8 hours work. You might like to see FAQ
Item: 5. Default Working Hours.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Guest]

Dear Mike,

Many thanks for the welcome message.

Actually, I'd like to know if it is possible to make the
default working days (8:00am, Dec 10 - 17:00pm, Dec 11)
from '1' to '2' working days, i.e. 16 working hours in
total.

Have checked the mvps.org site, but didn't really find the
answer.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Remington,

Of course you can !
Your calendar options (Tools / Options / Calendar) must be homogeneous with
the very project's calendar : Tools / Change Working time.
That's what is explained on the web site that Mike gave you :

See FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours at this web address:
http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this help,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Steve House]

Normally that would be considered two working days, or 16 hours. Dec 10
8am - Dec 10 5pm = 1 day, 8 hours. Same for Dec 11. Therefore Dec 10
8am - Dec 11 5pm = 16 hours/ 2 days. What does the Calendar options
page show for "hours per day"? What does the Project Calendar show for
the working hours on those days?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Remington,

This still sounds like a mis-match of calendars and working times. Are you
sure you read and made adjustments for this problem as in the FAQ?

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Steve House]

It depends on the duration of the task and the start time. On the view
page of the Options menu select a format that shows both date and time.
Look at both your project start time and the task start times. If your
work day begins at 8am and goes till 5 and a 1 day task starts at 9 on
Monday, that 1-day duration will end at 9am on Tuesday. As you adjust
durations and resources it's entirely possible that tasks will start and
end at other than concurrent with whole day start and end times.
Remember that regardless of what units you enter duration in, it's
converted to minutes for storage, calculations, and placement in the
charts. Since you say the calendar bar extends into Tuesday by a hair,
that's what I'd suspect is going on. A task with 480 minutes, ie 8
hours, is a 1-day task regardless of how many calendar days it spans in
the calendar. Or conversely, a task that begins at 1pm on Monday and
ends at 12 noon on Tuesday is a 1-day task, not a 2-day'er.