Task, resource calendars

[Sondin]

Hi all,

I am very new to MSP 2007 and still learning it day by day.

A have a very first question about the calendars when I plan some pilot
projects.

I have created a new calendar called "Non-Friday" where we work only from
Sunday to Thursday (Friday and Saturday are non-working). I have set the
project calendar to "Non-Friday". The timescale non-working calendar also has
been set to "Non-Friday". The task calendar is also "Non-Friday".

However, when I increase a task duration (scheduled for one day on Thursday)
to 2 days, the Gantt chart shows this task also works on Friday (from
Thursday to Friday). The task type I set is Fixed Units.

Where is the step I am missing? How to schedule the task so that it will not
work on non-working days?

Thanks for any help.

I will probably have more questions when I go along the learning process and
I appreciate all your answers.

Best regards,
Sondin

 

[Sondin]

And I forgot to mention that I am editting the task in the master project
plan where I have 3 inserted projects whose calendars have been set to
"Non-Friday".

Thanks.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Which steps are you missing? Hard to guess..

- Maybe your nonfriday calmendar has the changes for one friday only?
- Maybe after all it is not set as the project calendar for teh detail
projects?
In other words, does it work in the individual projects?
_ Don't you have a resource on a task with teh standard calendar? Resource
Calendars override teh project calendar.

Hope this helps,
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Jan De Messemaeker
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