Hi,
I'm hoping somone can help me with the following problem I'm having with MS Project. I have a project with Construction Activities (Standard Calendar appropriate) and Shutdown Activities (operating over 24hrs, 7 days a week calendar).
I can create calendars and apply them to the correct activities but the Duration field in MS Project calculates the Durations (in my opinion) incorrectly? I can't seem to get my desired result to display of 1 calendar day.
The Duration will calculate as 1 day if I use the Standard Calendar but will calculate my Shutdown activities (using the 24hr calendar) as 3 days even though this is happening from midnight to midnight. It is effectively calculating 3 shifts of work rather than Durations of days. If I change my working day in 'File - Options' to 24 hrs, I will then get that it calculates the Construction Activities (Standard Calendar) as 0.3 days and my Shutdown Activities as 1 day. See below of the undesired result.
Construction Activity A
Start 01/02/2019 8am Finish 01/02/2019 5pm Duration = 1 day
Shutdown Activity B
Start 01/02/2019 00:00am Finish 01/02/2019 23:59pm Duration = 3 days
Ideally, I want to see my Durations as 1 day for both tasks as they are happening over the course of 1 calendar day so I have:
Construction Activity A
Start 01/02/2019 8am Finish 01/02/2019 5pm Duration = 1 day
Shutdown Activity B
Start 01/02/2019 00:00am - Finish 01/02/2019 23:59pm Duration = 1 day
Any help/guidance on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Eam