Primavea 6.2.1 callenders

In User Preferences you set hours/day which is defaulted to 8. Unless you have too many activities with 24 hour calendars, I suggest to keep as default. Depending to which depth you go with budgeting units and resource profiles it might be better to not use 24h calendar or plan in hours. (either ends of the scale) 

In User Preferences you set hours/day which is defaulted to 8. Unless you have too many activities with 24 hour calendars, I suggest to keep as default. Depending to which depth you go with budgeting units and resource profiles it might be better to not use 24h calendar or plan in hours. (either ends of the scale) 

Mark,

Always plan in hours, not days.  Change your user preferences to show hours and then put 8 hours in for 1 day on an 8-hour calendar, 24 hours for 1 day on a 24 hour calendar.  If you want to show shifts, then use gobal changes and user defined fields to generate a text field stating the number of remaining shifts calculated from the duration in hours and the number of hours in a day as per your calendar.

Paul

In my view this is a long term major problem with 'P6'.  Due to having the view of durations governed by 'user preferences' and not the activity calendar we now plan all our projects in 24 hour calendar and have to 'manage' the manning/resource leveling issues that presents.  I brought this up with Primavera several years ago (before selling up to Oracle) and they claimed this was 'as users specified' which is a crap reply.  They did suggest work arounds as Paul identified but we should not need to be messing with such a basic function.

As Sandy said, the conversion factors should be in the activity calendar; not one global or user-specified setting.  That is what Primavera implemented in P7v7.  All conversion factors are now assigned to the activity calendar.  Version 7 also has improved summary durations calcs, and they fixed the Midnight Default Time Issue.  I recommend upgrading to Version 7!