Re: Discrepancy with work hours

From: Steve House [MVP] (sjhouse.remove.this_at_to.send.hotmail.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:21:50 -0400

This very weird, especially with one resource 100% showing 30 hours of work
in one day. Sounds like someting is really screwed up with your calendars.
What is your calendar hours and what are the entries on the Tools Options
Calendar page? Is this resource one person or a group? 

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"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:6DEAFFF2-4EFA-4BEF-90DB-C5D3485BEE07@microsoft.com...
>I am baffled by this problem.  I have a resource assigned to a task with 
>just
> 8 hours of work.  The duration is 1 day, and the unit is 100%.
>
> When I go to the Task Usage screen, this same resource is showing 40 hours
> of work for the same task.  It shows 30 hours for one day, and 10 for
> another, even though on the Gnatt chart is say 8 hours and 1-day duration.
>
> Any one know what could cause this?
>
> Joe
>

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