What I have learned in the past hour. If I have a group of tasks that have different task calendars applied to them, I have to enter the task durations appropriately. See the first group of tasks below. This string of tasks should take 7 days. The next group of tasks has 1 change. I changed the 24h/day task from 72 hours to 3 days. MS Project is "thinking" that due to Tools/Options/Calendar that a day equals 8 hours then if the 3 day task is 3x8 and the task calendar says "let's work this task 24 hours straight" then it will take only 1 day to complete. Left at 72 hours it took, correctly, 3 calendar days. (keep in mind if you are performing 'what-if' challenges to the schedule. you might want to see the effect of a previously worked 3 day task is you were to apply resources to it working 24 hrs/day remembering that a "day" is defined in Tools/Options/Calendar)
Other groups of tasks below also had one duration change with similar effect.
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Submitted by Eric Redding on Tue, 2011-03-01 18:16
thank you for your response. The video did not answer my question of having several calendars applied to tasks beneath a summary task and having the summary task correctly display the duration and time interval of the child tasks.
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Submitted by Baiju Jayswal on Tue, 2011-03-01 06:33
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15 years 9 monthsHello, What I have learned in
Hello,
What I have learned in the past hour. If I have a group of tasks that have different task calendars applied to them, I have to enter the task durations appropriately. See the first group of tasks below. This string of tasks should take 7 days. The next group of tasks has 1 change. I changed the 24h/day task from 72 hours to 3 days. MS Project is "thinking" that due to Tools/Options/Calendar that a day equals 8 hours then if the 3 day task is 3x8 and the task calendar says "let's work this task 24 hours straight" then it will take only 1 day to complete. Left at 72 hours it took, correctly, 3 calendar days. (keep in mind if you are performing 'what-if' challenges to the schedule. you might want to see the effect of a previously worked 3 day task is you were to apply resources to it working 24 hrs/day remembering that a "day" is defined in Tools/Options/Calendar)
Other groups of tasks below also had one duration change with similar effect.
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15 years 9 monthsthank you for your response.
thank you for your response. The video did not answer my question of having several calendars applied to tasks beneath a summary task and having the summary task correctly display the duration and time interval of the child tasks.
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14 years 8 monthsHello Eric I have also
Hello Eric
I have also same problem, you can also see the post in this forum " activity shows only one fourth duration" , you also find the solution.
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