Working time displays incorrectly on task calendar

[Judy Stowell]

Working on MS Project Server 2007. Our standard enterprise calendar is set
to a 6-hour workday. We created an Eight Hour Workday calendar for a
particular resource. We set the resource to this calendar and also set the
task he was assigned to to this calendar. The 'Work' column still displays
6 hours for a 1 day duration task however. Is there anything else we can
try?
Thanks,
Judy Stowell

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Hmmm, if I read your question properly, then it's a real simple answer.....change
the Work column to 8 hours.

Maybe the resource got assigned to the task, establishing the work was 6
hours, and then the calendars were changed?

When I set the project calendar to 6 hours, then set the task calendar and
resource calendar to 8 hours, my calculations show up as 8 hours / day.

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

 

[Judy Stowell]

Here's some additional information:
1. The project calendar is set to a 6 hour day by default
2. The enterprise standard calendar is set to a 6 hour day. This is used
for all enterprise resources and works just fine
3. I made a copy of the enterprise standard calendar and changed the working
time to an 8 hour day. Calendar is called Eight Hour Workday

I tried setting the task again doing the steps in this order:
1. Created the resource on the Resource Sheet and set his calendar to Eight
Hour Workday
2. Created a task and set the calendar for the task to Eight Hour Workday
3. Assigned the resource to the task. Duration = 1 day. Work = 6 hrs.
AARRGGHH!

Setting the Work columm to 8 hrs manually results in the resource showing
133% allocation, which is not what we want.
Thanks,
Judy

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

But the duration isn't one day, it's 1.33 days as per settings in Tools >
Options > Calendar. Try setting the duration to "8h" and see if you get
the same results.


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

 

[Judy Stowell]

Setting the Duration to 8 hours causes the Work column go go to 8 hours, but
the Finish date goes into a second day. What I think you're telling me is
that there's no way to override the Project calendar defaults, which makes
setting up special calendars pointless. Thanks for trying to help anyway!
Judy Stowell

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Judy:

What you need to understand is that the Gantt chart display in Project
always calculates based on the Standard Calendar, regardless of what various
calendars are in play for the resources or tasks. The good news is that the
scheduling engine does the right thing despite the display sometimes being a
little whacky.