Multiple Standard Calendars

[Kevin Newman]

We are running Project Server 2003.

We have several interrelated projects within the same Master Project. The
Master Project has a Project Calendar of 24hrs x 7 days less holidays as to
not limit the subprojects. At this time there are 33 subprojects within this
master project, each subproject has it's own project calendar depending on
how the project was sold, whether it is 4, 5, 6, or 7 days/week. Each
resource for the tasks in each subproject is assigned from the resource pool.
No tasks, resources , or projects are assigned the Standard calendar, and
neither is the "Nonworking Time". Nevertheless when you open up the master
project and expand the subprojects then check the Calendar tab within the
organizer, you will see the assigned calendars, but in addition you see
Standard, Standard1,Standard11.....,Standard111111111, etc..... It seems that
Project is assigning these calendars arbitrarilly.

I can go into each individual project, delete the extraneous calendars from
the Organizer, save the project and close it, then re-open it and all of the
calendars will be back. Is there any effective way to do this so that the fix
does not revert? This is causing performance problems in that when you open
the master, and then expand the subprojects you get numerous calendar errors.
It doesn't appar to be affecting the tasks themselves.

I am really beside myself with this one, I have eve tried saving the
subprojects as xml, deleting the old projects and recreating them from the
xml output to no avail.

Thanks,

Kevin

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Kevin:

What is your current SP level on the client and server?

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
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[Kevin Newman]

My server guy tells me that we are fully patched as per the end of May' 07.
The Client is at SP 2

 

[Mike]

We are running Project Server 2003.

We have several interrelated projects within the same Master Project. The
Master Project has a Project Calendar of 24hrs x 7 days less holidays as to
not limit the subprojects. At this time there are 33 subprojects within this
master project, each subproject has it's own project calendar depending on
how the project was sold, whether it is 4, 5, 6, or 7 days/week. Each
resource for the tasks in each subproject is assigned from the resource pool.
No tasks, resources , or projects are assigned the Standard calendar, and
neither is the "Nonworking Time". Nevertheless when you open up the master
project and expand the subprojects then check the Calendar tab within the
organizer, you will see the assigned calendars, but in addition you see
Standard, Standard1,Standard11.....,Standard111111111, etc..... It seems that
Project is assigning these calendars arbitrarilly.

I can go into each individual project, delete the extraneous calendars from
the Organizer, save the project and close it, then re-open it and all of the
calendars will be back. Is there any effective way to do this so that the fix
does not revert? This is causing performance problems in that when you open
the master, and then expand the subprojects you get numerous calendar errors.
It doesn't appar to be affecting the tasks themselves.

I am really beside myself with this one, I have eve tried saving the
subprojects as xml, deleting the old projects and recreating them from the
xml output to no avail.

Thanks,

Kevin

Hi Kevin

You might try editing the xml file directly and deleting any
references to Standard1 etc, before saving back to server.

regards

Mike

 

[Kevin Newman]

Thanks Mike,

That works, I can delete them using the outline view of the MS XML editor,
that saves some time. When I save the project to the server the extraneous
calendars are gone.

Am I right in assuming I will have to delete the old subproject and open and
save the xml file in it's place? Or is there a way that allows me to save the
revised project over the top of the existing project?

Kevin

 

[Mike]

Thanks Mike,

That works, I can delete them using the outline view of the MS XML editor,
that saves some time. When I save the project to the server the extraneous
calendars are gone.

Am I right in assuming I will have to delete the old subproject and open and
save the xml file in it's place? Or is there a way that allows me to save the
revised project over the top of the existing project?

Kevin







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Hi Kevin

2007 lets you overwrite plans but 2003 does not so I you will have to
delete the problem plans before replacing them with plans of the same
name. I am not sure how the master plan deals with this situation you
may have to rebuild it.

regards

Mike