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Old 12-15-2015, 01:31 PM
benl benl is offline 24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day?? Windows 7 64bit 24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day?? Office 2010 64bit
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I'm relatively new to Project and brand new to this forum. I searched for this but realized it's probably such a beginner issue, I'm just missing it.



I have a project that uses normal work hours (mon-fri, 8-5), but have a task that takes 28 calendar days. If I use a standard calendar, it adds weekend days, making it a lot longer than 28 days. I tried using the 24hr calendar for the task, as well as creating a calendar specifically for my task that goes 24/7, but they both yield a Gantt view of only 10 days (the task doesn't have a resource assigned.) What have I missed? I just need a task to show as 28 days, LITERALLY.
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Old 12-15-2015, 05:17 PM
Guloluseus Guloluseus is offline 24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day?? Windows 7 64bit 24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day?? Office 2010 32bit
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when you put the duration in, it shows as "2 days", "3 days", or whatever the duration is according to the calender being used (as you have found out!). Fortunately there is a way of ignoring the calendars, by using edays (elapsed, or extended days, depending on which books you read). This ignores the calender and uses real days. To set your task to 28 actual days, under duration type "28 edays", and this will give the required result.

The other way to do it would be to set up a calender that ignores all holidays and includes weekends, but for your purpose, I would think that edays would solve the problem in a much easier way.
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Old 12-18-2015, 11:17 AM
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That's perfect! Thank you, edays worked exactly as I needed.
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Old 12-31-2015, 02:55 PM
JulieS JulieS is offline 24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day?? Windows 7 64bit 24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day?? Office 2013
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A quick word of caution with elapsed duration (edays) tasks. An elapsed day is a 24 hour period of time. If you assign a resource to the 28 eday task the resource will be scheduled to work 672 hours.

To your post question of "24 hour task calendar doesn't show a day" - a "day" to project is 8 hours. It is defined in File > Options, Schedule. If you wanted to use a task calendar representing 7 working day per week - you would have been better off creating a new calendar and making Saturday & Sunday working days - but only 8 hours per day.
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