Project 2003 - Can a default be set to start each task at 8:00 AM

[Dick4b]

With fixed work tasks, split among several different types of resources, the
allocated hours are often fractional and the finish times are set down to the
minute. Project will schedule a successor task to start the minute after the
current task completes. It is highly unlikely, for instance, that I or a
group of resosurces will start a new task at 4:46 PM (work day ends at 5:00
PM) when the previous task completes at 4:45 PM. Starting fresh in the
morning is more the norm. Can Project be enabled to start each new task at
8:00 AM, regardless of the time of finish of the preceeding task? Setting a
'Start no Earlier Than' constraint will work initially but would have to be
adjusted any time a scheduled date moves to the right.

 

[Renaud Duisit]

I could never get around that one. Any help would be appreciated. Though I do
not think it would be possible for now in Project.
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[JulieD]

Hi

i've used a little "trick" occassionally in a project to force a task to
move to a certain time, but i don't know how to do it for every task.

What i've done is create a new calendar that has a working time of 1minute
(8am to 8.01 am)
then when i've had to "force" a task to move say to the next morning i've
added a task (Task A) between this task (Task 2) and it's predecessor (Task
1) with the duration of 1 minute and then assigned the calendar to it ..
this makes the TaskA go to 8am on the next day and then Task 2 follows it. -
you can then change row height & format the row so it can't been seen when
printing - but as i said, it wouldn't be a solution if you had to do it for
every task in the project

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Dick,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

It can't be done reasonably in Project. However, I believe you could be
guilty of overmanaging to want this level of detail Give the tasks to the
resources and let them manage their own time within reasonable limits.

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP