Multiple Calendars

Hi Lo

Working time is set up in the work pattern section which is then applied to the calendar.

You can have any number of work patterns in a single calendar to represent matters such as Ramadan or Reducing Daylight in the Arctic Circle.

Or set in more than one calendar to attach to different tasks such as those affected by wet weather and those under cover.

Some software is more flexible than others when facilitating this requirement.

P6 is hopeles and Asta PowerProject can be set in secondsif need be. MSP is probaly somewhere in between.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Sorry, Mike

I still don't quite understand.

I foresee I would have many tasks that work unnder different calendars. Therefore, I set up the different calendars at the very begining. However, most of the tasks ( the actual working manpower work at a Six Day calendar Monday to Saturday 8:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. ). Therefore, I set this as the Default Project Calendar.

The next calendar I set up would be a Calendar B, 24 hours calendar of 3 shifts e.g. bored pile concreting which is non stop until completion. 

The Calendar C, a Five Day calendar , for statutory submission , from Monday to Friday , 9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. 

In this case, how should I set this 3 calendars with different working day per week and working hour per day. How could Microsoft Project count the day (default project calendar ?) in the duration column of the Gannt Chart as the definition of day are different in this three different calendars.

Thank a lot!

Gary Lo

Hi Lo

As I said.

"Or set in more than one calendar to attach to different tasks such as those affected by wet weather and those under cover."

You have your 3 calendars - just apply them to the relevant tasks.

Be aware that your calendar B - 24 hr non stop causes problems if it ends in the middle of a holiday period as it breaks the critical path.

Best regards

Mike Testro