I am planning a new project: the Project Planned Start date/time is Jan 3 at 8am. The default schedule is 8am-5pm. The first task is 1-day duration: its planned start time is 8am however it's planned completion time is 4pm?? Why isn't is planned to complete at 5pm? This is causing the second task to start at 4pm on Jan 3, instead of 8am on Jan 4. Any idea how to fix this?
Hi there, things like this are some of the most frustrating things in WF in my opinion. There could be a few reasons:
- Your instance may have a default schedule of 8-5, but in your project preferences in setup, see which selection you have in this area - are there multiple people assigned to the task you are referencing?
- In your specific project details settings, do you have the default schedule applied to the project? Even if you have a default schedule in your instance, you're able to not have specific projects abide by it, so it's something worth checking if your project settings have the schedule in there or not.
- It may have something to do with related tasks' predecessors and constraints. Dependent tasks may be forcing this task to end at 4pm.
- It may have something to do with the assignee's schedule. Do you have user schedules in your instance? If you have user schedules, and the user assigned to your task is assigned to something and has their schedule applied, a user schedule in a specific project will override an instance schedule.
Good luck!
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