I am looking for some feedback regarding setting calendars for individual project team members. I need to schedule around vacation days and othe types of time off and as far as I can tell, the Enterprise Calendars do not accommodate occasional non-work time.

In the past, in working with MicroSoft Project, I have used the individual resource calendars to block out specific days for different resources, but I do not see something comparable to this in eProject.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

dgainespmp:

I am looking for some feedback regarding setting calendars for individual project team members. I need to schedule around vacation days and othe types of time off and as far as I can tell, the Enterprise Calendars do not accommodate occasional non-work time.

In the past, in working with MicroSoft Project, I have used the individual resource calendars to block out specific days for different resources, but I do not see something comparable to this in eProject.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Steve:

Now that PPM6 is here, is there a new solution for this problem?

Microsoft Project, in the "Tools/Change Worktime" menu, allows you to designate specific days within a project time period which are non-working days; it also allows you to designate vacation days for users; if a user is assigned to a task which occurs during one of these designated time, the task will automatically skip those days off.

I don't see anything similar in PPM6; are we left with the same problem as in Enterprise?

Max B.:

Steve:

Now that PPM6 is here, is there a new solution for this problem?

Microsoft Project, in the "Tools/Change Worktime" menu, allows you to designate specific days within a project time period which are non-working days; it also allows you to designate vacation days for users; if a user is assigned to a task which occurs during one of these designated time, the task will automatically skip those days off.

I don't see anything similar in PPM6; are we left with the same problem as in Enterprise?

Denise,

Have you had any luck setting up a vacation calendar?  I would be interested to see how well these ideas worked for you. 

Steve,  This part of Daptiv continues to lack basic functionality that does not harm the project plans.  I've been told NOT to use Global Non-working time due to annoying issues and bugs.  The above posted method will not schedule other projects around the PTO task, only show an over-allocation in scheduled activity.  Therefore, the end dates on my project tasks will be incorrect, unless I add days to them to account for the holiday or vacation.  This is un-necessarily complicated.  Is there a simple way to create a day where a resource or all resources will not be available to perform work (like a Saturday is treated now) that does not create errors in project plans/baselines or un-neccessary notifications?

I have been advising customers to create an Admin project to handle time off.  In this project, I place the Time Off Request DA to allow users to request time off, have it approved and have the item place on the schedule using the Tasks application.  All users are invited into this project so the task can be assigned to the requesting user.  This assignment consumes their available time and slips other projects around the day.  Now the user will see the task on their timesheet and can write time against the task so you will have a balance between Scheduled and Actual and can easily run reports against Admin time. 

Another solution (though not as advised) has been to invite all users in as PM on the project and allow them to schedule their time from the Tasks application.  They can now write actual hours against it. 

I don't advise the use of Global Non-Working time as it is presented today because nothing shows up on your timesheet and the users can't write time against it.  I have no accounting of Scheduled and Actual. 

"This assignment consumes their available time and slips other projects around the day. "

 In what way do other projects slip around the scheduled day?  As far as I can tell, Daptiv will allow me to schedule the same person on multiple activities at the same time and completely over schedule their time.