Changing Work Week in P6 Optional Client

You have been advised correctly.  There is only ione setting for "week begins" for the whole database.  All "Weekly" spreads and aggregations calculate from this day of the week, NOT the data date.

Cheers Dave.

You can assign a Customized calendars in every Individual Projects.

Work week could be changed either Friday or Sunday is the Weekend.

Create a Project Calendar for every Project.

I suppose your interest in changing work week start/finish day from actual settings to start on Saturday and to finish on Friday is for reporting purposes.

I wonder if you have something like project truncation reports?

In Spider Project truncation is one of the report forms executed for a certain period and presented in a separate project form. In project truncation, project data and representations are all displayed, also data under charges of cost components and materials, duration, volume, and also cost and materials calculation for the set time period are automatically executed. In the Activity Gantt activities which have been only planned or executed during this period will be presented.

With the use of such functionality you can report on the costs and resource usage that occurred within a particular period and all prior or posterior allocations will be excluded of the report.

It is not only about a need to follow and report on your particular work week but also for monthly reporting as it might be that start and or end of month do not matches your start and or end of week.

A functionality that do not depends on setting financial periods as you might need to report on different periods that do not match on their end/start dates. Not only applies to weekly and monthly but also to quarterly and yearly reports. Single financial periods is not enough.

If your data entry matches your reporting periods the distribution will be mathematically exact, if not the distribution will be assumed linear. Therefore the shorter the data entry periods the better. It is not unusual to enter labor [time cards] and material costs on a weekly basis while schedule performance data on a monthly basis.

If your software do not provides for truncation you can still try user defined periods a functionality I suspect it should have.

The following figure display diagram reports for costs on a biweekly period starting on Wednesday and then on a weekly period also starting on Wednesday. Vertical lines run from Monday 00:00 H to Sunday 24:00 H.

Look for user defined periods, they do not necesarily deppend on day of week, might be 4 days if you work on 4 days shifts.

Best regards,

Rafael