TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 Contractor 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 in. These 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.
| Information | When an activity is made Resource Dependent, unlike some other software, it still acknowledges the Activity Calendar for calculating the start of the resource work. Other software ignores the Activity Calendar and ONLY acknowledge the resource calendars when an activity is made resource driven. You may wish to place resource driven activities on a 24 hour 7 day/week calendar to prevent a delay to start of resource driven activities. |
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