How to set up tasks that can span weekends, but not start or stop on them?

[Paul]

Is it possible in MS Project (2000) to allow a task with an elapsed
duration to span a weekend, but not start or end on one? How would one
do this?

In this particular case, we have a test which runs for a fixed period
of time. The operator must be present both at the start and the end of
the test, but need not be present during the test.

For example, suppose the test lasts 5 days. It can start on Monday and
end Friday. It cannot start on Tuesday or Wednesday, since it would
end on Saturday or Sunday. However, it can start Thursday or Friday,
since it would end Monday or Tuesday.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Paul,

A workaround that has been suggested in the past that may help you:

Create a new calendar which allows one minute of working time on Monday,
Thursday, and Friday (07:59 to 08:00). Create a minute task as the
predecessor to your testing task. Assign the newly created calendar to
the task. This will force the predecessor to only happen on a Monday,
Thursday, or Friday and the sucessor task (your test) can then only
start on those days as well.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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[Paul]

Julie,

Thanks -- the 1-minute pseudo-task did the trick.

 

[JulieS]

Paul,

You're most welcome and thanks for the feedback.

Julie
Project MVP

 

[Jim Aksel]

Task splitting would not be allowed... the test needs to run contiguously;
Julie's solution allows keeping the task together.