Seting up a day to look like a non working day 1

[bitmite]

Need to add to my Gantt Chart a day that looks like how a non-working day appears (vertical line throught the project) but I do not want it to be a non-working day as it is really just a day that an event is occurring that I want to be aware of but we can still work on those days.

ie. as we are testing a database the database will be refreshed but we can still document on that day.

I did have it set up as a recurring task but found I had it a the bottum of the project and kept foretting to look down at the bottum to see if this task was occurring or not.

Any thoughts.

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[PDQBach]

P98-P2003 (don't know about P2007) - this isn't going to be a happening thing. There is no way to create a broad vertical stripe to highlight a date.

Two potential workarounds.

1. Use the "Status Date" as a surrogate.
1a. Project | Project Information ... and set the status date to your special date.
1b. View | Gantt
1c. Format | Gridlines and locate the entry for Status date changing the colour and line to something you will recognize.



2. Use the "Deadline Date" as a surrogate
2a. View | Gantt
2b. Insert the "Deadline" column
2c. For the appropriate tasks, set a deadline date
2d. Turn "Autofilter" on and display only those tasks with a "Deadline" that isn't "NA"
2d (alternate) Create a filter for "Deadline" tasks.

It's not what you're looking for, but it's the closest I can get you.

 

[johnherman]

Why not create a separate milestone task on that date so it marks the schedule? Just an idea.

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[bitmite]

tried that but found tring to get on overall picture on the Gantt chart as to what over lapped that event was difficult to do with a Gantt with 213 tasks. it got lost in the mess.

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[captainPlus]

Hi,

You can try making that day a non-working day from enterprise calendar. Project will show this day highlighted, but the day will be a nonworking day. But if you open each resources' calendars separately (who works on that day) and set that day as non-default working time and set your usual working times, that resources will be working that day, but Project will keep day highlighted because that day is a non-working day on enterprise calendar...

Hope this helps,
Ali

 

[PDQBach]

CaptainPlus:

That's a very good workaround. In fact, it works in standalone as well as in the EPM environment.

It's *somewhat* work intensive but it certainly accomplishes the desired outcome.

In standalone "Standard" or "Pro"

1. Tools | Change Working Time...
1a. Make certain you have selected the Project calander
1b. Select the date and make it "Nonworking" time.

Then, for each resource:
2. Tools | Change Working Time...
2a. Select a resource calendar
2b. Select the date and make it "Nondefault Working Time"

Nicely done, Captain. You've earned a star.