Startdate on a Saturday (Oct 1, 2022) doesn't consider it's a non-working day

Porzel Hans

Dear All,

I just tried to set up a project plan. Liked to put the start date on 1th of October 2022, because our contract with a customer states that projects start always right off on the 1th of a month. Didn't know it's a Saturday. But anyway ...

1th task in the project plan was "Project Kick-off"; duration 1 day.

To my surprise, Smartsheet used this day as a working day, though it is a Saturday.

But the project settings say, that only Monday through Friday are working days.

I had expected that Smartsheet would place the duration of 1 day for this "Project Kick-off" then on the first free working day, that would be then in particular, on Monday, October 3, 2022.

Did I find a bug?

Thanks for any comments already in advance!

Best regards

Hans P. ... from Germany

Genevieve P.

Hi @Porzel Hans

Tasks can be scheduled manually to start on a non-working day (as you've found). If you have put in Saturday (any Saturday) as the Start date of the project, that row will assume you want the Saturday to be seen as a working day since it's been selected.

See the second bullet point in this Help Article: Define Working Days, Non-working Days, and Holidays on a Project Sheet

You'll want to manually select either the Friday or the Monday if you want the Saturday to be skipped!

Cheers,

Genevieve

Genevieve P.

Hi @Porzel Hans

Tasks can be scheduled manually to start on a non-working day (as you've found). If you have put in Saturday (any Saturday) as the Start date of the project, that row will assume you want the Saturday to be seen as a working day since it's been selected.

See the second bullet point in this Help Article: Define Working Days, Non-working Days, and Holidays on a Project Sheet

You'll want to manually select either the Friday or the Monday if you want the Saturday to be skipped!

Cheers,

Genevieve

Porzel Hans

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/331456#Comment_331456

Hi Genevieve,

I see, thanks for you profound response; it's greatly appreciated!

Have a good day!

Best regards

Hans P. ... from Germany

Genevieve P.

Hi Hans,

My pleasure! I'm glad I could help. I hope you have a good day as well. 🙂