Printing double Timescale for Gannt Chart

[Costelu]

Hi,



I would like to know if it is possible to adapt my project calendar so that
it takes into account only those days on which construction outside is
possible.



I've been told that in some other project tools it is possible for the
project calendar to take in consideration the elements of rain, extreme cold
and other factors that keep the construction crew from working.



But, we want to see a double timescale and only one task in the gantt chart
view. The upper timescale shows the end date of the task based on the
project calendar and the second timescale shows the equivalent date which
takes into account the extreme cold weather factors for example.



The purpose of this is, when you print the gantt chart view you get a quick
graphical overview on paper of the finish dates on both timescales of TASK1
(One Task bar, on top two Timescales).



Example :



TASK1 ENDDATE ON PROJECT TIMESCALE: 17/03/2005

TASK1 ENDDATE ON EQUIVALENT TIMESCALE: 21/03/2005



Thanks,

Lco

 

[Rod Gill]

Try selecting View, Toolbars, Pert Analysis

This toolbar lets you click the Pert Entry Sheet button. In the new view
that gets displayed, enter different durations for good weather, bad
weather, average weather.

Click the calculate PERT button then you can click the Optimistic, Expected
and Pessimistic Gantt buttons to see different time frames.

 

[Costelu]

Hi Rod,


Thank you for your answer but this is not exactly what I meant.


In the Gantt chart view, every task has a Gantt chart bar placed under the
project timescale.

Now my question is, is it possible to have a second timescale which will
show me the correspondent date in case of for example weather condition
delays. In the construction industry, those possible non-working dates are
based on historical information.

The purpose is only to have a quick graphical overview of what is the finish
date of a particular task and what might be the equivalent finish date
according to this correspondent timescale.

Is there any existing solution, macro or programming ?

Thanks,

Luc

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hi Luc,
I think you could create several project calendars such as "Good weather
option", "Bad weather option"
To create a calendar : Tools / Change Working Time / Create... give it a
name then set as Non working time all the days which are
statistically rainy.
Then apply this calendar to the project : Project / Project Information /
Calendar : one or the other

Apply another calendar and compare (you could save a baselin to facilitate
the comparison)

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Rod Gill]

You can only have one timescale at a time, but you can have several bars
which is the solution I gave.