Task Calendar vs. Project Calendar

[Jeff Michna]

I have a project where certain tasks can only occur on
certain days of the week (Tue, Wed, Thur) while other
tasks are allowed to occur any day during the work week.

I've created a task calander that shows Tu,Wed, Th as non-
working, and have assigned the task to use this calendar.

However MS project shows the the task occuring on the non-
working days defined in the task calendar.

What am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it?

Thanks

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Jeff,

Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup

Try again and make Mon and Fri the non-working days, leaving Tue, Wed, Thur
as working days.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Steve House]

Actually according to your message you've got it backwards. If the task can
only occur on Tue, Wed, or Thur, the task calendar would show all days
EXCEPT Tue, Wed, Thu as non-working. The project calendar would show
Mon-Fri as working and only Sat-Sun as non-working.

The project calendar will govern all tasks unless a task calendar is
designated for the individual tasks. A second point to keep in mind is that
the default behavior is that the task will follow the resource calendar once
a resource is assigned to it. A third point is the default resource base
calendar is the Standard calendar. With that information, place the task in
the project. Display the task information page, advanced tab. Set your
Tue, Wed, Thu calendar as the task calendar. To prevent the resource
calendar from taking over and over-riding the task calendar when you assign
the resources, set the checkbox "Scheduling ignores resource calendars" on.

Steve House
MS Project MVP