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ChrisCo4
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April 3, 2020
Question

Task Duration Calculation

  • April 3, 2020
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Hi all,

I'm having difficulty with WF tasks calculating the durations I need.

For example, when I set a task duration of 1 Month: WF calculates it from 4/1/20 to 4/23/20...which is only 17 business days, when I need it to be closer to 20 or 21 (5 working days per wk).

And when I plan even longer tasks, it skews dates even more.

For example, when I set 3 months: WF calculates it from 4/1/20 to 6/9/20..but I'd need it to be closer to the beginning of July.

The calendar I'm using is scheduled from 8-6 M-F, so I'm not sure if this is impacting this but I'm really just trying to get it closer to actual dates because as you can see from the 3mo scenario, timing would be off close to about 3wks which isn't good!

Thanks for your help!

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    skyehansen
    Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
    skyehansenCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
    April 3, 2020

    hi Chris, you're correct. The calendar you're using is scheduled for 5 10-hour days. Workfront doesn't seem to work well with schedules that aren't for a 40-hour work week or an 8-hour day, and I can't say that I've ever found a way around that.

    I do get slightly better results when I program a 2-hour lunch break into each day on the schedule, since this brings the total hours back to 8 for each day. But obviously you might not want to do that if it's not true.

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    LeighHa
    Level 4
    April 6, 2020

    My team was just discussing the same, but slightly different, issue last week. The only other reference to this was from 2016, so thank you Chris :)

    Project Preferences - Typical hours worked=8, typical days worked=5.

    So when we give a task a 5-day duration, we notice it's calculating from 8am the first day until 12pm the fifth day and starting the next task at 12pm same day. It wasn't allocating a full work day, so it was shortening our timeline. Timeline based on Simple Calculation.

    It appears I'm going to have to change our typical hours worked to 9 hours to accommodate an 8-5 work day.

    I welcome any other suggestions too.

    skyehansen
    Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
    skyehansenCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
    April 6, 2020

    could you maybe send in a screenshot of how your schedule is set up (in the setup area) as I'm having problems picturing it.

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    LeighHa
    Level 4
    April 6, 2020

    Here you go, Skye. Looks pretty teenie, so hopefully you can click and open.

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