Project time over days 1

[Scott24x7]

All,
A simple question, I think... I'm entering tasks into Project 2002. What I want to do is have a number of hours for the taks, say 20, but I want that to cover a 2 week period (10 hours per week). When I enter 20, Project automatically calculates the number of "Days" for that task, and it winds up being 3 days. Is there a way to set this so that Project doesn't force the day calculations based on time?

Many thanks.
Best Regards,
Scott

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[beniez]

Hi Scott

If I understand you correctly, what you want to do is to have one or more resources carrying out the task for 20 hours during a 2-week period. In that case, make the task type 'Fixed duration', make it 2 weeks long, and assign a resource to it with 20 hours of work.

I'm using Project 98, so knowing Microsoft some of the terminology will have changed, but hope this helps.

Ben

 

[Scott24x7]

Ben,
Well, I tried that, but it is giving me the same result. Either I get the number of hours that I want, but the "Span of days" is wrong, or I get the span of days, but the number of hours is wrong.
(i.e. in this case, I want 20 hours of 2 weeks. If I put in 20 hours, and start on say, July 1, it ends automatically on July 4. If I put in July 1, to July 14, then it gives me 80 hours.) Any other ideas? This should not be this complicated!


Many thanks
Best Regards,
Scott

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[Scott24x7]

Ben,
Well, I got what I'm after, with a similar solution. I set the duration to 2 weeks, choose the resource, and then set the % of effort against the task, so if I want them to spend 20 hours on it, I set the % to 25% effort over 2 weeks, which equates to 20 hours work, and calculates my cost of the employee correctly! So, you were on the right track. Thanks for that.

-Scott
Best Regards,
Scott

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[dpb289]

Hi Scott,

Possibly the solution you are looking for is as follows:
1) Be in the Gantt Chart with the diagram visible
2) Right-click on the bar that shows your duration. It will bring up a menu and select split. Follow its instructions from there.

Regards,
dave