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Length of days!
Entering task durations in hours is the ONLY way you will be able to set up your class scheduling. And you will also need to create the custom project calendar I outlined.
John
Well you can scrub the idea that Project is an "easy to use piece of software". It isn't, and you've found that out.
Project only allows one definition for a "day" so the first thing I suggest is that you use hours instead of days. The next thing you need to do is to create a custom project calendar with Monday and Thursday as full days, Tuesday and Wednesdays as half days. That's easy enough via, Project > Properties group > Change working time. And do not simply edit the Standard calendar but create a separate custom calendar based on the Standard. Setting up the alternate half and quarter Fridays is more challenging. First, set up every Friday as a 4 hour day. Then do a recurring exception for every other Friday as a 2 hour day. This is what the 4 hour Friday's will look like,
And this is what alternate Friday's will look like
Hope this helps.
John
- Hello John. Thanks so much for this. Really appreciate your help. Although it sounds like Project is not as easy to use as I thought. My work has got it so it looks like the only option for this kind of work so I will try stick with it. So with what you have shown me do I take it that I should then be able to say for each task the length of time in hours rather than days? Would this then make it simpler to enter the length of each task?
Entering task durations in hours is the ONLY way you will be able to set up your class scheduling. And you will also need to create the custom project calendar I outlined.
John
- Many thanks John
