Btw, line 4 below should say: 4) If you assign multiple users to a task, it looks at your Setup-Project Preferences-Timelines Multiple User setting (see above) to know whether to use the calendar of the primary assignment or the project calendar; Sorry about that… Eric

Oh another clever solution…thanks Doug! Eric

Laura - We have a number of calendars for each time zone, mostly (time zone calendars). Some of our calendars are for a specific team (team calendars), like the Finance team - they don’t work on projects on Fridays or the first week of the month, or in December or January. We gave them their o...

Excellent point about the configuration option to choose whether you use the Primary user’s calendar or the project calendar. I forgot about that. Thanks for pointing that out! Eric

Hi - I completely agree that project specific schedule exceptions are really really important. For our technology projects, we frequently go-live or test on weekends. Our normal calendar does not permit work on weekends, but we need exceptions on nearly every project that puts technology into produc...

Hi: If you have a project-specific calendar, however, you have to create a calendar just for that project. The problem is that the calendar assigned to the individual overrides the project calendar. The project calendar is used to calculate dates when no user is assigned to the task. When a user is ...

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Marty - interestingly enough, we added a custom attribute to fulfill the exact same function as your “PM Update”. We put the date in each update. We don’t count on the Last Condition Note. Sometimes a Project Admin, not the Project Owner, makes the administrative updates to the pla...

Hi: I always report that stuff using a Note Report. We do have a couple of reports at the Project level, but they don’t get used much. I’m more of a fan of the Note report. I’d start there and then see if you need more information than they provide. I also occasionally do some text...

Hi: Last Condition Note is the last update note entered by the project owner. Last Note is the last note entered by anyone on the project. They would be the same if the Project Owner was the last person to send an update. Audit Text is information automatically entered by WorkFront. I don’t kn...