Project Calendars

[Todd]

Hi,

I am having an issue with calendars that I hope someone can help me
with. We have projects in both Canada and the US. The calendars for
these countries are different (obviously with holidays and such),
however, the resources may work on both of sets of projects.

From what I've read, when you assign a resource to a project, that

resource's calendar is the one that takes precedent on a task. This
becomes a problem when I have a US resource on a Canadian project and
vice versa. For instance, there may be days off on the Canadian
project that I don't want the US resource to work, but I also don't
want to block that day off his calendar because I may want to assign
him a task on a US project.

Is there any way to specify using the project calendar above the
resource calendar on a project? Or has anyone else run into this
problem and come up with a solution?

Thanks!
Todd

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Todd:

The way to do this is to create a task calendar based on each country
calendar. When you know you're applying a US resource to a Canada task,
apply the Canada task calendar to the task checking the box to ignore the
resource calendar. This will cause the system to schedule the resource as if
they were a Canadian resource. Do the same when applying a Canada resource
to a US task.

The only downside of this, is that once you tell the system to ignore the
resource calendar, it will, even if a vacation is planned. You'll need to
catch this when building your schedule.