Mike
Thu Nov 18 10:12:48 CST 2004
Hi Bobby,
Well, I think it does! When you start a new project, you amend the Standard
calendar to meet your requirement like company and national holidays. Then,
when you create a new resource, it will appear in the drop down list in
Change Working Time. If you select that, it will show the Standard calendar
as you have amended it, ie it is based on that calendar. You can now change
the resource,s calendar to be different to the Standard by changing his
particular holidays, etc. If you subsequently change the Standard calendar,
the resource's calendar follows suit.
Mike Glen
Project MVP
Bobby wrote:
> What is the point of modifying the project calendar if you then have
> to manually assign the new calendar to each resource individually?
> Wouldn't it be more sensible for all resources to inherit the
> (modified) project calendar *and then* allow you to modify each
> resource individually?
> "Steve House" <sjhouse.remove.this@to.send.hotmail.com> wrote in
> message news:419bdb4c$0$97211$45beb828@newscene.com...
>> It's because individual resources may have calendars that differ
>> wildly from the Project master calendar. I'm in Canada. Our
>> statutory holidays are quite different from those of the USA. Suppose my
>> project was being done by resources in both countries. Which should be
>> the "master calendar" for all resources, the
>> Canadian or the American? The correct answer is "both," depending
>> on where my resource is located. That's why part of the resource
>> information sheet is the base calendar for 'this' resource. The
>> Project Calendar determines the working hours for tasks that don't
>> have resources assigned and other standard time frames within the
>> project. The resource base calendar sets some default work hours
>> for the resources which can then be further modified for each
>> individual. --
>> Steve House [MVP]
>> MS Project Trainer/Consultant
>> Visit
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs
>>
>>
>> "Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote in message
>> news:301m04F2q5vj4U1@uni-berlin.de...
>>> Thanks Julie. I solved it by assigning the revised calendar to each
>>> resource.
>>>
>>> How dumb is Project? Why doesn't it automatically assign the project
>>> calendar as the default resource calendar? What a waste of time to
>>> manually assign the revised calendar to each resource.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Bobby
>>>
>>> "JulieD" <JulieD@hctsReMoVeThIs.net.au> wrote in message
>>> news:ORCoK%23LzEHA.260@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi Bobby
>>>>
>>>> Point 3:
>>>> when you choose format / timescale - go to the non-working time
>>>> tab, click on the drop down for calendar and choose yours and then
>>>> go and have a look at the gantt chart in a way that you can see
>>>> each day you see the weekends shaded (indicating non-working
>>>> time), can you see christmas shaded the same way? ... this doesn't
>>>> affect how project works, just confirms that its reading your
>>>> calendar correctly. Point 4:
>>>> Each resource also has a calendar associated with them .. by
>>>> default Project uses the "standard" calendar as the resource's
>>>> base calendar even if you choose a different project calendar - so
>>>> what you need to do is to tell project that your resources are
>>>> working according to your calendar not standard. If you go into
>>>> the resource sheet and scroll to the right you'll see a base
>>>> calendar column, for each resource. This also needs to be set to
>>>> your calendar. Hope this helps
>>>> Cheers
>>>> JulieD
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:301a5bF2qs19aU1@uni-berlin.de...
>>>>>> 1) under project / project information it shows your custom
>>>>>> calendar as the working time calendar
>>>>>
>>>>> Check.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) and when you go into tools / change working time you see
>>>>>> christmas as non-working time,
>>>>>
>>>>> Check.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 3) and when you tell the gantt chart to display the your
>>>>>> calendar's non-working time (format / timescale - non-working
>>>>>> time tab) you see the holidays that you marked
>>>>>
>>>>> No.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 4) and you're set your special calendar to be the base calendar
>>>>>> for the resources (resource sheet / base calendar column).
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't understand this point.