Removing date from Start & Finish fields

I'm organizing a schedule for a service group.  This is an event that is being planned down to the minute.  Everything takes place the same day.

 

Does anyone know of a way (would presumably involved a global change) to remove the date from the start/finish columns and just leave the time displayed?

 

Thanks,

Steve

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Mike Testro 👤 Member for 20 years 5 months

Hi Steve

You have just revealed another reason why P6 is rubbish compared to Powerproject.

Can you set the work period to seconds?

Best regards

Mike Testro

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Steve Campbell 👤 Member for 15 years 1 month

OK, here's a kind of solution that I found to this:

  1. Do a global change and move Start and Finish data to user text 1 and user text 2. 
  2. Go through user text 1 and user text 2 and, using "Replace" get rid of the date, leaving only the time.
  3. Rename them Start and Finish.

They're static and won't change without re-running the global change, but it gets around the problem. 

Anyone else have a solution that would not result in static Start and Finish columns?

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Steve Campbell 👤 Member for 15 years 1 month

No, there's no such setting in P6.  I'm hoping someone has created a clever global change to solve this problem.

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Mike Testro 👤 Member for 20 years 5 months

Hi Steve

In Powerproject you just format the date field to show HH-MM-SS from the format drop down.

Surely P6 has a similar mechanism?

Best regards

Mike Testro

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