Background Information
Before any version of Microsoft Project Professional
can correctly schedule the work in a project, the system needs to know the
working schedule for the project and the working schedule for each resource
assigned to tasks in the project. Your Project Server administrator defines
these working schedules by creating one or more Base Calendars in the Project
Server system. If your organization does project work in other countries, or has
resources in other countries, your Project Server administrator should create a
new Base Calendar for each country, listing the national holidays for that
country.
Resolution for Project Server
2002 and 2003
To create an enterprise Base Calendar for each
country, the Project Server administrator must complete the following steps:
1. Launch Microsoft
Project Professional and log into Project Server with administrator permissions.
2. Click Tools -
Enterprise Options - Open Enterprise Global.
3. Click Tools - Change
Working Time.
4. Click the New button.
5. Name the new Base
Calendar using the name of the country.
6. Select the "Create
new base calendar" option and click OK.
7. Select the country's
holidays for at least the next year and mark them as Nonworking time.
8. Repeat steps #4-7 for
each country's calendar.
9. Click OK.
10. Save and close the
Enterprise Global file.
11. Exit Microsoft
Project Professional, relaunch the software, and then log into Project Server
again.
The Project Server administrator must then specify a
country calendar as the Base Calendar for each resource in the Enterprise
Resource Pool by completing the following steps:
1. Tools - Enterprise
Options - Open Enterprise Resource Pool.
2. Click the Select All
button.
3. Click the Open/Add
button.
4. In the Base Calendar
column, select the correct country calendar for each resource.
5. Save and close the
Enterprise Resource Pool.
After the Project Server administrator completes the
above steps, all users of Microsoft Project Professional should exit and
relaunch the software and then log into Project Server again. After doing so,
project managers must select a country calendar for each project by completing
the following steps:
1. Open an
enterprise project.
2. Click Project -
Project Information.
3. Select the country
calendar from the Calendar pick list and click OK.
4. Click Format -
Timescale and click the Non-working time tab.
5. Select the country
calendar from the Calendar pick list and click OK.
6. Save the project.
Resolution
for Project Server 2007
To create an enterprise Base Calendar for each
country, the Project Server administrator must complete the following steps:
1. Log into Project Web
Access with administrator permissions.
2. Click Server Settings
- Enterprise Calendars.
3. Click the New Calendar
button.
The system launches Project
Professional 2007, connects to Project Server, and displays the Change Working
Time dialog for a new blank Base Calendar.
4. Name the new Base
Calendar using the name of the country.
5. In the Exceptions data grid, create a
nonworking time instance for each of the country's national holidays.
6. Select each holiday individually,
click the Details button, set up the holiday to recur two or more years into the
future, and then click the OK button.
7. Click the OK button
to close the Change Working Time dialog.
8. Repeat steps #3-7 for
each country's calendar.
The Project Server administrator must then specify a
country calendar as the Base Calendar for each resource in the Enterprise
Resource Pool by completing the following steps:
1. Tools - Enterprise
Options - Open Enterprise Resource Pool.
2. On the Resource
Center page, click the Actions pick list menu and click the Select All Resources
item.
3. Click the Open...
button.
4.
Apply the Resource Sheet view, if necessary.
5. In the Base Calendar
column, select the correct country calendar for each resource.
6. Save and close the
Enterprise Resource Pool.
After the Project Server administrator completes the
above steps, all users of Microsoft Project Professional should exit and
relaunch the software and then log into Project Server again. After doing so,
project managers must select a country calendar for each project by completing
the following steps:
1. Open an
enterprise project.
2. Click Project -
Project Information.
3. Select the country
calendar from the Calendar pick list and click the OK button.
4. Click Format -
Timescale and click the Non-working time tab.
5. Select the country
calendar from the Calendar pick list and click the OK button.
6. Save the project.