Task that must be done in one step.

[Robert]

Is it possible to prevent MS Project from planning such
tasks to start on Friday and end on Monday with break on
weekend? Work should be always done in one step.

 

[John]

Robert,
Project's default is a normal 5 day workweek using 8 hour workdays
starting at 8:00 am local time. However, it is possible to set up any
work schedule. You don't say in your post whether the work should be
done on a 24 hour basis or simply 8 hour days but for a full 7 days a
week. For starters, check out FAQ 5 - Default Working Hours on the MVP
webpage at: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
If you have additional questions, post again.

Hope this helps.
John

 

[Robert]

John,
Thank you for your reply. I will give you an example for
my problem. Monday-Friday 24 hours calendar, Sunday and
Saturday are non working days. If task lasts 10 hours and
you start at 8 p.m. on Friday you can't finish job before
weekend. MSProject will plan 4 hours on Friday and 6 hours
on Monday. But my task must be done (because of
technological reasons) in one step. So I would like to
prevent MSProject from allowing plannig my task with break
during non working time. Maybe it is not possible in
MSProject?
Robert

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Robert,

Have you tried using elapsed durations? Put an e in front of the Duration,
eg 4edays.

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

 

[JulieD]

Hi Mike

(Robert sorry to butt in but i also have this problem)

what i would prefer rather than the job starting at 4pm and going to
midnight (which 8eh would give me) is that the whole job is put off to the
next working day ... i manage this manually at the moment but was wondering
if i also was missing something that would allow me to make this more
automatic.

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Steve House]

You can use a workaround by creating a calendar that defines 1 minute a day,
say 12:00am to 00:01 as the working time and putting a fictitious task that
uses it as the task calendar in the middle of the link between the task in
question and its predecessor, but this is only a partial solution. Work
only takes place on the working time calendar and MSP will never schedule
OT, ie, work outside the working time calendar, on its own. So what happens
if your regular work schedule is 8-12 and 1-5 and the task you need to have
done in 1 continuous unbroken time period happens to be a 12 hour task?
There is no place that a task requiring 12 hours continuous work can be put
on a work schedule that has a maximum unbroken sequence of 4 hours of work
before the resource goes away for a time so we still have to revert back to
manually scheduling it in some way either by adding OT work or defining a 12
hour task calendar for it.

 

[JulieD]

Hi Steve

i like your "work-around" ... i totally understand that project will never
schedule OT & if i was dealing with 12hr tasks then i would have a problem &
have to determine the solution manually, but i was more interested in
finding a solution for the "normal" situations where a job is "deferred"
until it can be completed in one go - which your solution gives me - thanks

Cheers
JulieD