Re: Changing start and end times when copying tasks to a new Project P

From: Steve House [MVP] (sjhouse.remove.this_at_to.send.hotmail.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:00:45 -0500

Left off another possible cause of your problem here. You said previously
you had entered both start and finish times for some of your tasks. As
mentioned before, entering a start time puts a Start No Earlier Than
constraint on the task. Entering a finish puts a Finish No Earlier Than
constraint on the task. The constraint that remains on the task is the
latter one entered so what you end up with depends on the order you have
entered the data. If I have a task and I enter a start of 20/1/05 09:00 and
a finish of 21/1/05 15:00, you'll find the start will become 20/1/05 15:00.
You have said the earliest it can start is 09:00 but then you said the
earliest it can finish is 15:00 the next day. The duration has defaulted to
1 day and I haven't changed it. For a 1 day task to finish no earlier than
15:00, the time it must start is 15:00 the previous day so even though it
could start as early as 09:00, it won't because 15:00 is the time that
results in the required duration elapsing before the earliest possible
finish. (Had I put in a duration the exact numbers might change but the
principal still applies). 

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"Peter Rooney" <PeterRooney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:9A0A6E74-095C-490A-89B3-424BCD29EF9A@microsoft.com...
>I have recently spent a lot of time setting the start and end times (as
> against dates) of tasks in my departmental project plan to match our 
> working
> day (09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:30 - 7.5 hours) by setting the format 
> of
> the start and end dates to display the times too, then manually changing 
> them
> (multiple raised eyebrows andglances to heaven from worldwide project 
> users -
> yes, I KNOW!)
>
> Our working time on the standard calendar was originally 08:00 to 12:00 
> and
> 13:00-17:00, giving a working day of 8 hours, which was incorrect.
>
> I have modified the Standard calendar to reflect these times, and ensured
> that all resource calendars match them too, at least for the periods in
> question, but set the tasks to ignore resource calendars anyway (who's 
> been
> reading his manuals, then?)
>
> However, when I filter my plan and copy the filtered data to a new plan,
> some of the start and end times change e.g. Start Date of 03/12/04 09:00
> becomes 013/12/04 14:30. In fairness, most of the timesdon't change, which
> makes it all the more puzzling - I would have expected them to be all 
> right,
> or all wrong...
>
> The calendar assignations for the "corrupted" tasks in the new plan are 
> the
> same, and as far as I can see, nothing else has changed.
>
> Does anybody out there have any suggestions as to what could be causing
> this? I've spent a lot of time writing VBA to extract filtered areas of my
> plan (specific projects, teams and resources) to seperate plan files which
> can then be emailed, but if my extracts show different data, then it's not
> going to be viable.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pete

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