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From: DannyG on 23 Feb 2010 17:54
I want to select specific work times to do work on a project from 9pm to 1am
every day but when I tried to do this, the work times I specified would not
change.
From: DavidC on 23 Feb 2010 18:33
Hi DannyG,

Is the specific times you want to reflect, related to the resoruce or the
task? Times are set up in various places. The first is the calendars where
you can change the time for each individual day or selected days, the second
is in the Calnedar tab of the 'tools/options', where the project defaut
setting is mad.

I suspect from yoru query that you want to change the default working day
from 8:00am to 5:00pm, to 9:00pm to 1:00am. This ensures that the
calculations required for project to give you a correct answer to your
schedule.

however you also need to select all the working days in the calendar used
for the project and manually change the start and finish times. However
remember that this shift works across two days. So the shift needs to show:

Start 12:00am finish 1:00am, then start 9:00pm finish 12:00am. This is the
reality on any particular day, you start the shift on one day and finish the
next hence the odd way of setting the time.

Hope this helps


Regards

DavidC

"DannyG" wrote:

> I want to select specific work times to do work on a project from 9pm to 1am
> every day but when I tried to do this, the work times I specified would not
> change.
From: Roland67 on 23 Feb 2010 18:34
If you want to change the work time for all tasks/resources then you'd want
to change the work times in Tools--Options area or on the project's calendar.
If its only on a task you'd want to create/update a task calendar which
allows those hours to be valid work times. Hope this helps.

"DannyG" wrote:

> I want to select specific work times to do work on a project from 9pm to 1am
> every day but when I tried to do this, the work times I specified would not
> change.
From: JulieS on 23 Feb 2010 21:15
Danny,

I am assuming the problem you are having is trying to make the
working time span over midnight. Take a look at the built-in
"Night Shift" calendar to see a sample of how to create working
time that spans from one night to the next morning.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information about Microsoft Project

On 2/23/2010 5:54 PM, DannyG wrote:
> I want to select specific work times to do work on a project from 9pm to 1am
> every day but when I tried to do this, the work times I specified would not
> change.
From: "Steve House" sjhouse at hotmail dot on 26 Feb 2010 05:26
Important: Changing the "Default Start" and "Default Finish" fields on the
Tools/Options/Calendar page DOES NOT change the start and end times for the
workday! You MUST change the times in the calendar in ChangeWorkingTime if
you wish to change the actual working day start and end time. All date
fields in Project are actually date/time fields - time is always a component
whether you choose to display it or not. When you choose to manually type a
date into a field, such as when setting a constraint, but do not explicitly
provide the time element, Project must assume a time. The Tools/Options
page default Start and Finish fields allow you to specify what time it will
supply when you make such manual date entries. Changing the times here DOES
NOT affect the working time calendar in any way.


--
Steve House
MS Project Trainer & Consultant


"DavidC" <DavidC(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:46101CA9-264C-4FA5-81DC-558FBAFB4C5C(a)microsoft.com...
> Hi DannyG,
>
> Is the specific times you want to reflect, related to the resoruce or the
> task? Times are set up in various places. The first is the calendars
> where
> you can change the time for each individual day or selected days, the
> second
> is in the Calnedar tab of the 'tools/options', where the project defaut
> setting is mad.
>
> I suspect from yoru query that you want to change the default working day
> from 8:00am to 5:00pm, to 9:00pm to 1:00am. This ensures that the
> calculations required for project to give you a correct answer to your
> schedule.
>
> however you also need to select all the working days in the calendar used
> for the project and manually change the start and finish times. However
> remember that this shift works across two days. So the shift needs to
> show:
>
> Start 12:00am finish 1:00am, then start 9:00pm finish 12:00am. This is
> the
> reality on any particular day, you start the shift on one day and finish
> the
> next hence the odd way of setting the time.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> Regards
>
> DavidC
>
> "DannyG" wrote:
>
>> I want to select specific work times to do work on a project from 9pm to
>> 1am
>> every day but when I tried to do this, the work times I specified would
>> not
>> change.

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