do not split task over 2 days

[Carl Morley]

Hi,

I've got some particular tasks that take about 6hrs. But they must be
completed within 1 day. If there is not enough time to complete that 6hr
task on any given day, then MS Project should bump the task to the start
of the next day.

eg. on a day when there is 4hrs of another task at the start of the day,
there is not time within that same day to complete the 6hr task. However
the way I've got Project set up, it simply schedules 4 hrs of the 6 on
that same day, and then the remaining 2 hrs the following day.

Any idea how I can prevent this behaviour and tell Project that certain
tasks _must_ be completed within the one day?

Regards,
Carl.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Carl,
There is no "indivisible" feature in Project, but you can improvise a
solution:
Between the first task (4h Duration) and the second indivisible one, insert
a fake task : duration = 1minute, linked to the firs one by FS-1m.
To this fake task, assign a specific calendar with time work begins = 9h and
time work ends = 12h (6 hours before the end of standard calendar )
Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[John]

Carl,
Here is an alternate to Gerard's suggestion. If you have a little VBA
experience, it is quite easy to write a macro that looks at all tasks
(or any subset thereof) in the file and moves the Start date (i.e. next
day) of any that will violate the same day completion criteria. I recall
a question very similar to this being posted in the past. I may even
have the code for it but I'd have to search.

John

 

[Carl Morley]

Hi,

Thanks for that excellent suggestion. It works quite nicely and is less
clumsy than anything else I was attempting )

Thanks again,
Carl.