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Relation between task duration and project calendar work hours
- If you have Project Plan 1,3 or 5 licenses then Project for the web is definitely NOT out of scope for support. You should be able to open a new case via the Microsoft 365 Admin center (or your admin should). If you tried this before - ping me the case number to brian.smith@microsoft.com and I will find out why you were told this. Best regards, and apologies for the delay in responding - just back from vacation, Brian.
Brian-Smith - I am curious on how your days were calculated based on 8hr day. But in mine, at least for some tasks I got the expected behavior of duration matching my 4hr workday.
DRogith it is hard-coded into the product - so entering 6 days generates 48h of work that needs doing. Also adding resources before/after setting duration can make a difference as the effort in that case may more closely follow to actual hours the resources can work rather than the '8 hour' default. The devil is in the detail - and the step by step should allow me or another of our support engineers to explain the results you are seeing. At the heart of this is the same scheduling engine that has been in Project for a long time - so although it may not at first always be obvious why a calculation comes out like it does - there is nearly always a good explanation. Once you understand how it is working then I think you will get into a pattern of building the schedule and assigning the resources that works as you want and expect it to.