I have an automatically planned activity that has to take place the upcoming weekend. How can I configure an activity in that way?
Thank you very much.
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Sign up to join this communityI have an automatically planned activity that has to take place the upcoming weekend. How can I configure an activity in that way?
Thank you very much.
My suggestion is to use a Task calendar that restricts working time to weekends. Assign the task calendar to the "weekend only" task and select the option "Scheduling Ignores Resource Calendars". By that method you do not have to modify resource calendars nor create extra "spare" resources.
By default in the project calendar the weekends are not working days. So to schedule a task to occur partially or fully over a weekend you need to apply a resource to the task that has the weekend as working days.
If you are not using applied resources then you do have the option of making the weekends working time in the project calendar, but then that will apply for all tasks, and Project will schedule them over the weekend(s) which may not be what you need.
I commonly have to schedule weekend deployments of key IT systems. I set up special weekend resources that only work over weekends and allocate them to the weekend deployment tasks. These are then only scheduled to take place over weekend working.
You can also set the task to "edays" instead of days, that will get the task to span the weekend days. However, when you apply the resources, you will get an allocation error in your indicator column. You can select to ignore the error. That might work well if you just had one item that was like that. Otherwise the calendar alterations as mentioned might work best.