How to create a schedule with tasks must start on a particular day

[Rayis]

Scenario

We have a project plan consisting of 2500+ tasks and 50+ resources.
There are some tasks which must be start on a Friday, Some tasks mus
be start on Saturday, Some tasks must be start on a Saturday or Sunday
(We are using the EPM with MSP 2003)

Is there anyway to schedule those above mentioned types of tasks o
that particular days without changing the resource calendars or withou
setting up different task calendars.

To be more clear - While I am rescheduling/updating the plan, thos
tasks must start on those days only and not any other days (regardles
of date).

Please Hel

 

[Aaron Tamblyn]

Doesn't sound like calendars will be able to achieve what you are looking
for. You could use a task constraint in Project to ensure the task started
on a specific date but from how I read your notes I take it you want the task
to be able to be automatically rescheduled (complying with your requirements)
when you make changes to the schedule.

I think your best alternative is use VBA in Project to capture when a new
task is created. You could then apply the logic you require to ensure the
start date for the "special" tasks only occurs on a specific day/s of the
week.

 

[Reid McTaggart]

It is not possible to solve this without manipulating calendars, but you rule
that out in your requirements.

If you can relax your objection to using calendars, then a solution is
possible.