Steve
Thu Oct 11 02:23:35 PDT 2007
As Jan said. The proper term in "Project-ese" for what you want is "Elapsed
Time." Duration is defined to only count working time as set by the Project
or other governing working-time calendar. Clocks on the wall and Outlook's
appointment calendar don't measure duration at all - they measure elapsed
time.
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"Mark E. Read" <MarkERead@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OK... I think I get it now. So even though I am thinking about calendar
> days, the Duration column is looking at my definition of day (8 hours) in
> Tools>Options, and telling me that I have 12 of them crammed into the poor
> weekend. So my duration is correct, and my start and finish are correct,
> it's just that my head is a little bent. That's okay. I'm used to that.
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> As an extra credit question, is there a field for a calendar duration, or
> would a formula be able to convert a raw duration into calendar days for
> display purposes?
>
>
>
> "Steve House" wrote:
>
>> Your definition of "1 day" is each 8 work hours. Your calendar says work
>> proceeds without interruption around the clock. The time period between
>> midnight to midnight therefore encompasses 3 standard days as you've
>> defined
>> them.
>>
>> Always keep in mind that Project works with durations converted into
>> hours
>> and minutes to the nearest 1/10 minute. It allows us to use units like
>> "day" and "week" purely for our convenience but those are not equivalent
>> to
>> the units with the same names you see pictured in your day-planner's
>> paper
>> calendar.
>>
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>> Steve House [Project MVP]
>> MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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>>
>>
>> "Mark E. Read" <MarkERead@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:501543F8-23B4-42AE-AC5B-503FBF3ADF54@microsoft.com...
>> > Helping a client with a weekend calendar issue, I may need some more
>> > help...
>> > This is Project 2007 pre-SP1 (no updates)
>> >
>> > We've got two 100 hour tasks lasting through a weekend, and the work
>> > (100
>> > hrs), resource units (100%) and start (Friday) and finish (Monday)
>> > dates
>> > all
>> > agree, but the duration seems to indicate a strange number (like 12
>> > days
>> > or
>> > 2.5 weeks) rather than the expected three days indicated by the
>> > difference
>> > between start and finish.
>> >
>> > The standard day is 8 hours in Tools>Options.
>> >
>> > The task is using a calendar set to working time from 12AM to 12AM, and
>> > the
>> > calendar was added AFTER the plan was built.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts? I have a screen capture of the duration, work start and
>> > finish to illustrate my conundrum if anyone would like to see. Is
>> > there
>> > something broken with the duration display? Is the calendar exception
>> > throwing off bad data? Am I missing something?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>>
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