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Project Online overwriting my calendar when uploading
Hi
I hope someone can help
I am having an issue when uploading a new project from the desktop to project online.
The main base calendar for the system does not have any exceptions, as we are a global company and projects arent limited to one region it has been decided that we should ask the project managers to manually review national holiday exceptions and manually push tasks out rather than building the system to cover all potential holidays.
As is always the case, the issue I am having is a project which is an exception to the above rule. The project in question has a different base calendar which accounts for national holidays in one region. As this is a one off, and the project is very detailed and old, I would like to just upload it as is.
So:
- I have created a copy of the regional calendar and added it as an enterprise calendar in the system
- Prior to using the import wizard, I have changed the project calendar and working time calendar to the new base
- when using the import wizard I have checked at each stage to ensure the working calendar has not changed
- I have changed the resources calendar to the new base
The above ensures no tasks are assigned during the exemption period, Ive checked at each stage of the wizard and this approach is working
Then it goes wrong, as soon as you select save (in the wizard) the task dates all move so some are scheduled where there should be an exception i.e. it seems to adopt the standard base calendar, this is for tasks with and without resources assigned. The region specific calendar is still displaying in the working time box so I am not sure what is going wrong
Id be grateful if someone could help with this
Thanks
Matt
- Matthew --
It sounds like you are a Project Online administrator since you were able to add the calendar as an enterprise calendar. Regarding the resources in this project, as the administrator, did you actually check out these resources for editing from the Resource Center page in PWA and then specify their Base Calendar value there? If you only changed this in the project itself, the resources will always revert back to their settings in the Enterprise Resource Pool. Please let us know and we will try to help you.- Matthew RussellCopper Contributor
Hi Dale
Thanks for the swift reply
I didnt check out the resources, only changed it in the resource step of the upload wizard.
If I change it in the online resource it will change all other projects they are assigned to wont it? As this is a one off is there a way to upload but to only use the project calendar rather than the resource calendar?
Thanks for your help
Matt
- Matt --
OK, I located the source of your problem. No, there is not a "one off" method to resolve your calendar problem. Sorry, but hope this helps.