Overriding Non-Working Days

Melanie Goodwin

Most of our projects include M-F working dates, however at the end of each project there is often a conference or event which may take place over a weekend or other non-working day. I'd love to be able to override and enter tasks on weekends for these instances without turning the entire project into a 7-day work week project and accidentally having other tasks "pushed" onto a weekend by mistake. Is there a way to override?

Victor van R

I think the only way is to make the default a 7 days working week and make the 'normal' weekends exception. 

 

 

Melanie Goodwin

Do you mean set the working week to 7 days but make all weekends (except for the weekend of the event) a non-working/holiday/vacation status?

 

That might work. Thanks!

 

Victor van R

Yes, that is what I mean. It is a bit basic workaround but it works. 

John Hammond

If its only only a weekend here and there, you could do the following:

 

-Create a new task (row) for Sat and Sun (each row only scheduled on one day)

-Create a row above the two weekend rows.

-Indent the two weekend rows under the new row

 

Now you can collapse the two weekend rows under the parent row to give the impression of a single row but still have your weekend task.

Crissy Nolen

• Elapsed time (lead with an e to indicate duration in elapsed time e.g. e3d, e5h, e3.5d, etc). A task with a duration in elapsed time ignores non-working time. The task will start and end in the amount of time specified regardless of working day length and non-working days in the sheet.

Chuck Kahn

Adding the Sat and Sun rows indented gives the impression in the gantt view but the days total is only 1d for a Fri-Sun range instead of 3d.

Shaker Ali Alhazaimeh

Thanks "Crissy Nolen"

I'd tried it and it is working fine

klipywitz

Brilliant, thank you! 

ted.hopton

Thanks for solving this for me -- just the guidance I needed!

timr54021

Crissy, hello.

I have a date and duration calculating problem where a task of 6 days duration is behaving in an odd manner when I try to use your prefix 'e' solution to "override" Sat and Sun as non-work days within Project Settings.

Grid and Calendar Views both show 7 days Duration instead of the specified/required 6 days, and Gantt View shows just 5 days.

Any thoughts as to what I may be doing wrong?

Any help appreciated!

Zachw

Thank you for this, works perfectly