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Julian CoetzeeMember for 20 years 4 months
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I want to find out about the following.

For e.g. I have a project with three disciplines namely Mechanical, Electrical and Civil all working on different task calendars which I set up in the "Change Working Time" function. Once the calendars are created, I then apply them to each discipline accordingly.

My question is, the project calendar settings in "Tools - Options" menu only allows me to set up 1 calender with regards to hours in the day, hours per week and days in the month. This will have an affect on the other disciplines, what can I do to have accuracy with regard to the project calendar?
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    Alexandre Faulx-Briole ·
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    Hello,
    Basically, you cannot do anything:
    Calendar options are used by MSP to compute how many hours per day / per week, how many days per month a resource available 100% is able to work; e.g. Alexandre is available 100%, he will work 8 hours per day on a 5 day task, that makes a 40 hour workload on this task.
    MSP is not very good at managing a project with several task calendars; you should be very cautious when building and checking your schedule.
    All the best
    Alexandre
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    Julian Coetzee ·
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    Hi Alexandre

    Thanks for the comments and reply. At the end of the day that is all one can do, is be careful and try to achieve accuracy. I always want my plan to reflect reality as close as possible.

    Kind regards from SA
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