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Calendars
I have a schedule that I have been working on for about 9 months now which is built on the standard 5 day work week. Now, I want to possibly change the current schedule to a 7 day work week. How hard...
- Hi.
The first thing is to make a backup copy of the file, in case you don't like the results, but not because errors are generated.
Keep in mind that the calendar will only be applied to unfinished tasks, and only from the date on which you define the application of the new calendar hours.
Regards.
Ignacio
Hi John, thank you for the reply. I was playing around with this yesterday and I was looking at a task that started in August 2024, so any calendar changes should have changed this task. I changed it to a 7 day work calendar and it didn't appear to change anything. How do you make the changes or what are the steps you use when changing a calenadar over?
In the simple example I showed, I simply changed the Project Calendar from Standard to "7 day workweek" (Project > Properties group > Project Information > Calendar). This of course assumes a new custom calendar for the 7 day workweek was created.
With regard to the task that didn't seem to change, when you switched calendars, there are other factors that could be in play. For example, if the task had a resource assigned and the resource's Base Calendar is still "Standard", then the task probably wouldn't change. However, I'd have to see your file to determine exactly what is going on.
John
