Scheduling a Recurring Task without using Recurring Task

[JROD]

Here's my problem using Microsoft Project Pro 2003 and PWA:
I would like to schedule a task such as a team meeting who's duration
will be 1 year, but the task only occurs one day a week. I do not want
to use the Recurring Task option because that would create 52 separate
tasks - I only want one task where the work for each week would equal
1 hour.
Optimally, the solution will put one task in the user's task screen,
and the user would only be able to enter time for the day the task is
to occur on, all other days would be disabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Rod Gill]

Can't be done. Users can enter actual hours on any day for any task. All you
can do is have one task with the resources assigned at 2.5%. Otherwise, use
a recurring Task.

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[JROD]

While I agree that they are 52 separate tasks, users are not going to
see it that way and will not use PWA if they are working on 3 projects
and have 156 tasks just for team meetings.

So here's what I did - I created an enterprise calendar that only has
Thursday as a working day (called Thursday Meeting calendar). So when
I create my task, the duration is 52 days, and each resource assigned
52 hours of work on the task at 13%. This way the schedule only shows
the task only using up 1 hour on 1 day for everyone per week. When
users login to PWA, they can see their scheduled work (1 hour
scheduled on Thursday) and enter time accordingly.

Can anyone see any drawbacks to doing this?