Show vacation and split tasks in Gantt Chart (MS Project 98)

[jesper.nordestgaard]

Hi

Is it posible to show vacation in the Gantt chart and split a tasks
when it starts before a vacation and ends after?

Hope you can help

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jesper,

There is no work scheduled for resources during time marked as
non-working (vacation) so there is no need to split the task.
Unfortunately, the Gantt bar extends through the nonworking time.

A work around that *may* give what you need is to draw the bars for
nonworking time for the resource in front of the Gantt bars.

Display the Gantt chart view and choose Format > Timescale. On the
non-working time tab choose the Resource's calendar and choose to draw
the bars "In front of task bars." The Gantt bar will appear to stop
during nonworking time and begin again during working time.

You may have the best results with this if you filter the Gantt chart to
show only tasks assigned to the selected resource.

Note: I do not have Project 98 available to confirm the menu choices,
but I believe this method was possible in Project 98.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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[jesper.nordestgaard]

Hi JulieS

Thank you for your quick answer!
I found the following. Your procedure works if the standard project
calendar is changed but not if the calendar for an specific recource is
changed.
Is it posible to gray out or in a other way mark a bar that runs throug
a vacation when only one resource is assigned to the task? Does any one
have a macro or something that does this.

Are there any alternatives to this?

Hope you can helt.

In advance - thanks.

Jesper

JulieS skrev:

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jesper,

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.

On the Nonworking time tab of the Format > Timescale dialog box, select
the *Resource's calendar* from the Calendar drop-down and select "In
front of bars." That will display the non-working time from the selected
resource's calendar as the background of the entire Gantt chart.
Unfortunately, you cannot apply it on a task by task basis.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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about Microsoft Project