Printing DoubleTimescale for Gantt 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

 

[mark.everett]

Let me restate to make sure I have it right. You want, in one task, a
planned and actual task bar that are based on task calendars. The
upper bar would show planned and the lower bar would show actual, due
to extreme weather delays. Project supports task calendars, but only
one calendar per task. So I don't believe you can do what you want to
do, the way you want to do it. You could have two tasks, one using
your standard calendar and the other using an "Extreme Weather
Calendar" where you would show the non-working time and make notes in
the note field about the weather.

You could also show planned and actual in one task, using a Tracking
view, but you would have to manually introduce the delay and make
notes.

Mark

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Costelu --

Here's a methodology but I'm not sure if it will work for you:

1. Plan your project, assuming that you will have perfect weather during
the life of the project
2. Click Tools - Tracking - Save Baseline to capture the "perfect weather"
schedule
3. Each time there is bad weather, add a nonworking day on the calendar
used as the Project Calendar
4. At any time, apply the Tracking Gantt view to show the current schedule
(blue and red bars) against the "perfect weather" schedule (gray bars)

Just a thought. Hope this helps.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Costelu:

The calendar is an appropriate part of your solution to manage non-working
days in your schedule as they occur in real-time. The type of best
case/worst case modeling you're talking about is already supported in
Project through PERT analysis. You should examine the help files to learn to
use this functionality to create the scheduling scenarios you're talking
about.

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