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Working with different calendars

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Wed, 2009-10-14 04:21
Christian Viddal
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Hi,

First of all thanks for a great forum.

Need your help to set up 2 different calendars in my resource plan.
One calendar to be 7.5hrs and the other to be 8hrs. I am able to create new calendars but not able to choose between the two of them, only one of them.

could someone please assist me in setting up this correctly.
I am running MS Project 2007 locally on my computer.

Thanks and regards,
Christian
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Wed, 2009-10-14 09:33
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Christian Viddal
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Thanks a lot for your reply.

However, in my version of MS Project (2007 standard) I do not have the option to edit working times. Any ideas why this is?

The working times to the right of the calendar is grey and not possible to edit.



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Wed, 2009-10-14 08:44
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Trevor Rabey
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First of all, do not simply edit the Standard Calendar.
The Standard Calendar is 5 days/week and 8 hours per day.
If you change it you won’t have a 5 x 8 Calendar anymore.

Use Tools, Change Working Time, and copy the Standard Calendar. Give it a distinctive name such as "AA 5D 7.5H".
Edit the working times, save.

Do the same thing again but name it "AA 5D 8H".
This one doesn’t have to be edited because it is identical to the Standard Calendar.

You can then choose either calendar as the Project Calendar in Project, Project Information.
All Tasks use this unless you give them a different one.
You will also have to select the calendar as the Base Calendar for the Resources.
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