20 hour shift

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15 years 9 months

 Hello,  How can I make a 20 hr calendar without having a 1 minute gap?  12A-3A; 7A-5P; 5:01P-12A.  Thanks, Eric

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15 years 9 months

Hello I believe that I have sorted it out

Resource 1 works from 7am to5 pm; resource 2 works 5 pm to 3am.

The calendar for resource 1 is straight forward.  For resource 2 in "change working time", I entered 12:00AM to 3:00AM & 5:00PM to 12:00AM (not 5pm to 3am like you'd assume).

For a single 20-hour shift, the entry in "change working time" is 12:00AM to 3:00AM, 7:00AM to 5:00PM then 5:01PM to 12:00AM.

Not intuitive but it works.

Eric

Member for

15 years 9 months

Hello,

Here's what I want to do:  I want to schedule a 20 hour task that starts 7AM.  I have 2 resources able to work 10 hour shifts.  One will work from 7AM to 5PM and the other 5PM to 3AM.

I need the task to show a start of 7 AM and a finish the following morning at 3 AM.

I can configure the first resouce calendar but cannot configure the second.  Please advise and thanks,  Eric

Member for

15 years 9 months

Thank you Ellen,

My brain re-engaged after I posted my question and I was able to use 12PM to 8PM for the 20 hour shift duration.  I looked at the night shift and decided I didn't like how it portrayed the tasks I wanted the visibility of 2-10hour shifts working back-to-back.  12PM to 8PM worked fine.

Best to all,

Eric

Member for

14 years 8 months

You are normal is you can't figure this out.  MS Project calendars do not handle going past midnight which might be your problem.  All time must exist during a specific day.  For example:  if you want a shift that starts at 11 PM and ends at 7PM the next day your calendar would look like:

12 AM - 7PM and 11Pm - 11:50 pm

You would apply this to any base calendar which can be used as a project, task or resource calendar. 

By the way you might want to look at the values in the Night shift calendar which is part of every version of MSP.