Work and elapsed duration

[Shahriar Nour Khondokar]

HI..
is it possible to have a fixed-work task scheduled over elapsed duration?

In other words, i have a fixed-work task which I want to occur in
non-working time too; i.e. after 5PM in the Standard Calendar.

Please let me how to accomplish this.

Thanks

 

[Barbara - Austria]

Hi,

does entering 7 edays (instead of 7 days) not what you want it to do? It is
working for fixed-work tasks also.

Regards
Barbara

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[Shahriar Nour Khondokar]

Hi
my duration is actually being calculated by MS Project based on the value I
enter for Work and Resource availability %; i.e. I dont enter any value for
duration.

But i still want the work to occur during non-working time using elapsed
duration.

Is this possible? If so how?

 

[Barbara - Austria]

Hi,

now I got it (at least I think so).

First you need a second calendar:
Tools - Change Working Time ...Create New Calendar. Create a new one, if you
don't need any holidays. Go to tab 'Work Weeks', mark [Default] and click on
Details.... Change working times for the days you want to perform your
tasks. Finish with OK.

Open Task Information, select your new calendar and enable 'Scheduling
ignores resource calendars' on tab 'Advanced'.

If you have questions let me know!
Regards
Barbara


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[Andrew Lavinsky]

The task would need to be set to a 24 hour calendar, with the resources assigned
as well - or the task is set to ignore resource calendars.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[Shahriar Nour Khondokar]

Thanks Barbara and Andrew for your replies.
I have done some experimenting of my own and found a way of doing this
different from what is described above.

I created a fixed work task and assigned a 100% resource to it.

The duration is calculated automatically.

Now, if i add 'e' to the duration, it schedules the task during non working
hours. Hence I did not have to create or use a 24hrs calendar specifically
for this task.

Can someone please confirm that it is OK to follow this approach?

Thanks
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[Barbara - Austria]

Hi,

this appraoch is fine (and was in fact my first suggestion ;-)). Since I
understood from your earlier post that you didn't want to edit duration, I
described a possibilty without doing that. And so did Andrew.

Regards
Barbara

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