Project 2013 Intermediate

Lesson 1 – Working with Calendars

Project 2013

E XERCISE

W ORKING WITH C ALENDARS

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Task

Create and assign calendars.

1. Open Rooms7 .

2. Switch to the Gantt Chart view, if necessary.

3. Point to the task bar for the 1 Create Plan task to see that it starts on a Monday

and ends on a Friday with a duration of 1 week .

4. Switch to the Resource Usage view.

5. Change the working hours for the 1 Architect resource. Set the working hours for

Monday through Friday to 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM with a break from 1:30 PM to

3:00 PM.

6. Switch to the Gantt Chart view. Notice that the 1 Create Plan task still has a

duration of one week, however, the task is now scheduled from Monday through

Thursday since the Architect resource works 10.5 hours a day.

7. Create a new base calendar called Union by making a copy of the Standard

calendar. Mark June 20 - 24 2016 as an exception. Call it Union Retreat.

8. View the week of June 20, 2016 in the Gantt chart to see that the Painter and

the Electrician resources are scheduled to work on tasks that week.

9. Switch to the Resource Usage view and assign the Union calendar to the

following resources: 3 Painter , 4 Laborer , and 10 Electrician .

10. View the Gantt chart and notice that the tasks assigned to the Painter and

Electrician resources were moved to the week of Jun 26, ‘16 .

11. Assign the Union calendar to the entire project.

12. Change the project calendar back to the Standard base calendar.

13. Create a new base calendar with the name Cable Installation based on the

Standard calendar. Set the working time to 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Monday

through Friday).

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