When scheduling a recurring task in MS Project '07 there seems to be a limit on the scheduling period of 1 year. Anyone know how to schedule a task for 18 months? 24 months? How about 34 months?
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When scheduling a recurring task in MS Project '07 there seems to be a limit on the scheduling period of 1 year. Anyone know how to schedule a task for 18 months? 24 months? How about 34 months?
In a project you often have recurring tasks, for an example project meetings or reports that you have on weekly or bi-weekly basis. One option is that you create one task for each such meeting or report but you could also create one recurring task, which I recommend you to do. To create a recurring task in Microsoft Project 2007;
1. Choose Insert --> Recurring Task.
2. Enter the name of the Recurring Task (Weekly Report).
3. Enter the duration of the task. You estimate that the report on average takes half a day to complete.
4. When this is a weekly report you set the Recurrence Pattern to Weekly and that the task is schedule to every Friday.
5. You can either define an End date of the recurring task or define the task to end after x occurrences.
Please note that you are able to expand the summary task and edit each individual Weekly Report.
As with all task information, you can enter a duration in a Gantt Chart sheet or in the Task Information dialog box. Follow these steps to enter a duration :
1. Double-click a task to display the Task Information dialog box.
2. If necessary, click the General tab to display it.
3. In the Duration box, use the spinner arrows to increase or decrease the duration.
4. If the current duration units aren't appropriate (for example, days when you want hours), type a new duration in the Duration box.
New tasks are created with an estimated duration of one day unless you change the duration. You can use the following abbreviations for various time units:
• m: Minutes
• h: Hours
• d: Days
• w: Weeks
• mo: Months
Don't assume that changing the start and finish dates of a task changes its duration — it doesn't. You have to manually change the duration; if you don't, your project plan will not be what you intend it to be.
5. Click OK to accept the duration setting.
If you don't assign resources to tasks in your project, Microsoft Project calculates the schedule using task durations, task dependencies, constraints, and project and task calendar information. If you do assign resources, the tasks are also scheduled according to resources' calendars and assignment units, providing for more accurate scheduling.
By default, when Microsoft Project calculates duration units, one day equals 8 hours, one week equals 40 hours, and one month equals 20 working days. If you enter start and finish dates for tasks and don't enter start and finish times, Microsoft Project uses 8:00 A.M. as the default start time and 5:00 P.M. as the default end time.
I'm in the same boat at the moment and if anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
It's not the duration of the task that I can't work out its how to make the recurring task happen every 10 years. So, the same task (like replacing a bearing in a wheel) needs to occur every 10 years. It appears you can only make recurring tasks happen no longer than every year but if someone knows a way around it that would be great.
Thanks
You can choose "Open this one" but then can only edit the time. You can't, for instance, have a recurring event that rotates its location among different offices. This is a REAL problem. The user can enter appointments, daily events, and multi-day events. These events can be dragged around the page whenever a date or time changes. I'm sure it's probably a bug, but this make it nearly impossible for us to use the calendar part of the project sharing feature if we can't make these sorts of edits.
I'm not sure what you mean. Basically what I am after is to go
Insert > Recurring task > select the yearly box and then make the task repaet every 20 years, but it will only allow me to repeat every year.