NOT starting new activities on certain days of the week

[tooky]

Hi,

I am working on a schedule that is based on 7 days a week working, however,
I do not want new activities to start on a Saturday or Sunday and default to
start on a Monday. (Though activities can start on Tuesday, Wednesday, etc
just not the week-end).

Once started activities will continue through the week-end.

Is there a relatively straight forward way to do this without writing a VBA
to handle it? (I'm against the clock on this one)

Thanks

Tooky

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Easiest way is to just have a calendar without working days on Saturday &
Sunday. Create milestones prior to each task and assign the milestones to
the 5d Week Task Calendar using the Task Calendar field.

Then assign your tasks as successors to the milestones.

With filters you can create views that remove the milestones from the Gantt
if you so desire.


- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Tooky,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

There is a trick for this. Create a 1 minute task and link it between the task finishing during the week and the next to start on Monday. Create a new calendar so that the only working time is 1 minute between 0759 and 0800 only on Mondays. Now assign this calendar to the 1 minute task. That should do it.

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

Mike Glen
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Hi,

I am working on a schedule that is based on 7 days a week working, however,
I do not want new activities to start on a Saturday or Sunday and default to
start on a Monday. (Though activities can start on Tuesday, Wednesday, etc
just not the week-end).

Once started activities will continue through the week-end.

Is there a relatively straight forward way to do this without writing a VBA
to handle it? (I'm against the clock on this one)

Thanks

Tooky

 

[Melanie Remen]

Hi Tooky, hope you are well.

There doesn't appear to be a setting that I am aware of which will
automatically do this for you, however you may wish to consider this as a
creative workaround, however the schedule will need continual monitoring to
make sure this is applied to all tasks which may start on a weekend day for
schedule changes.

Once you are satisfied with your schedule save it and scan it for tasks
which have been scheduled to start on a weekend day. You could then apply
some lag time to push the tasks start date out to a Monday if it has been
automatically scheduled to start on a Saturday or Sunday.

This isn't an ideal solution however I hope this can help you somehow or you
are able to find a speedy and easy resolution in here.

--
Kind regards

Melanie Remen
For more tips on Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server, please
visit my blog at: http://msproject03-2010tips.blogspot.com/

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Sorry about that....didn't realize Milestones don't observe calendars. Mike's
answer's probably your best option.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm