Overview

The finish date (and time) of an activity is calculated from the start date (and time) plus the duration over the calendar associated with the activity. Therefore, a five-day duration activity that starts at the start of the workday on a Wednesday, and is associated with a five-day workweek calendar (with Saturday and Sunday as non-work days) will finish at the end of the workday on the following Tuesday.

Primavera Version 5.0 has three categories for calendars:

• Global These calendars are available to all Projects and Resources.

• Project These calendars are only available to the projects they are created for and may only be created for a project when that project is open.

• Resource A Resource calendar may be assigned to one or more Resources, which in turn may be assigned to an activity in any project. A Resource will be scheduled according to a Resource Calendar when the Activity Type is set to Resource Dependent, otherwise the activity is scheduled according to the Activity Calendar.

You may create a new or edit an existing Calendar to reflect your project requirements, such as adding holidays or additional workdays or adjusting work times. For example, some activities may have a 5-day per week calendar and some may have a 7-day per week calendar.

This chapter will cover the following topics: