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Gary SabiMember for 13 years 8 months
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I have a project where some work is done in night (only in night).
Also, some areas have fixed hours where work can be done during the weekends. How do I take the both into account when scheduling ? Is there any calendar or something I can create or am I missing something.

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    Rafael Davila ·

    If you mean the same activity

    If you mean the same activity can be performed by a crew at night during regular work week while another team can work on the activity during daytime on weekends it means you need to model shift work by different resources on the same activity.

    The activity shall have a calendar that is the union set of the work weeks of the two team calendars although a 24-7 calendar can do it.  You assign the activity this calendar and each team their respective calendars, you assign bot teams to the same activity and whenever the work is finished the activity will finish.

    Some software cannot correctly model shift work when the duration of the activity is driven by how much work is produced by the resources on different shifts.

    You can try yourself a simple scenario, so simple it consist of a single activity.

    Activity 1 500 cm rock excavation
    Resource 1 production 10 cm/hr and works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 10 hrs/day
    Resource 2 production 15 cm/hour and works on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10 hrs/day

    If activity starts on Monday:
    Monday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
    Tuesday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
    Wednesday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
    Wednesday =>> Resource 2 will produce 150 cm
    Thursday =>> Resource 2 will produce 50 cm in about 3 hours
    Activity will take 3 days 3 hours.

    If activity starts on Wednesday :
    Wednesday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
    Wednesday =>> Resource 2 will produce 150 cm
    Thursday =>> Resource 2 will produce 150 cm
    Friday =>> Resource 2 will produce 100 cm in about 7 hours
    Activity will take 2 days 7 hours.

    If your software is not capable of modeling the above, simple shift work on a single activity, then you are using the wrong tool. Every time the activity is delayed, the distribution of work is shifted, when you have many such activities and work on different hour shifts, different days it can become quite complicated. For a single shot you can use incapable software with manual distribution of work among shifts for anything else distributing work by hand is nuts.

    http://youtu.be/1_qqDYbdq3w

     

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    Evgeny Z. ·

    Rafael,little bit off the

    Rafael,

    little bit off the topic. what tool do you use to capture screen video?

    Regards.

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    Rafael Davila ·

    Try the following:For a basic

    Try the following:

    For a basic free alternative try Free Screen Video Capture by Topviewsoft.

    http://download.cnet.com/Free-Screen-Video-Capture/3000-13633_4-10859265.html or

    http://www.topviewsoft.com/free-screen-video-capture.html

    For a non free but more functional alternative try TechSmith Camtasia.

    http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia-gslp.html?gclid=CPvF-7qRm7UCFQGvnQodpk8Agw

    Hope this helps.

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