Dec 28 2023 10:45 AM
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 would it be to do this as I have about 600 line items with tasks that are in progress, completed and some that haven't started yet. Would it be easier to keep it as a 5 day schedule and just adjust the duration? We just use resources for durations and not for cost. Any help is appreciated.
Thank You
Dec 28 2023 01:31 PM
@sirsleep29 ,
This may be easier than you think. Since you can't change history, tasks that are already completed will not change with the new calendar. Tasks that are in progress will partially change based on the new calendar (i.e. completed portion will not change but the overall task duration will change in response to the new calendar). Tasks that have not yet started will change to the new calendar.
For example, here is a simple plan with the Standard calendar:
Changing the Project Calendar to a 7 day workweek results in this:
Obviously, this is a simple example, a more complex plan may present some modified results.
John
Dec 29 2023 04:24 AM
Dec 29 2023 09:08 AM - edited Dec 29 2023 12:44 PM
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
Jan 02 2024 12:39 AM - edited Jan 02 2024 01:34 AM
Happy New Year to all!
@sirsleep29 , perhaps defining different workday periods in the project calendar could help you.
To achieve this, simply enter the project calendar and add a row "7 day work week" for example, and have it start at the beginning of that period and end on a date after the end of the project.
Next, click on Details of that same calendar period, and select all the days of the week, assigning the corresponding time, as shown in the image.
Nota.- The [Default] work week specifies the work week to be used when no other work week entry applies.
Ignacio
Jan 03 2024 04:50 AM
Good Morning, I appreciate the feedback and will try it out to see if it work for me. Thank You Again.
Jan 24 2024 11:27 AM
@Ignacio_Martin I think this will work for me but do you foresee any issues that could be caused by making the change? I worry that if I make the change and then all of a sudden I get a bunch of errors because of the change to the 7 day work week. Thank You.
Jan 25 2024 11:08 AM
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Feb 16 2024 03:42 AM
Feb 16 2024 04:21 AM
Hello Nils.
I think that in order to include photos on the blog, you have to register.
If what you are referring to is that when you have a time scale of days in the Gantt chart, the columns corresponding to Saturday and Sunday are not shown, even though they are non-working days in your calendar, unfortunately it is not possible to hide them. You can select not to display a background color for those days (Menu> View> Zoom> TimeScale> TimeScale> Non-Working time > Tab> Draw...), but the Saturday and Sunday columns will still appear.
Regarding the link to the document you indicate from Microsoft support, the view Calendar you refer to is different from the view Gantt chart, and there it can only show the days Monday to Friday.
I hope I've helped.
Ignacio
Feb 19 2024 08:36 AM - edited Feb 19 2024 08:38 AM
Hello Ignacio,
thank you very much for your quick response!
You did get my problem right and helped me to find a way to maybe get a solution 🙂
Now I know, that sadly I can't hide the non-working days so I need to contact MS Project in order to fix my problem. I think they need to reintroduce the function that is shown in the link above so I can switch between the 7-day week to a 5-day week in the Gantt-diagram. Maybe they will do it, but let's see. I will give you an update if something happens.
Thanks for your kind help,
Nils
Jan 25 2024 11:08 AM
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