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Switch Between Enforcing Working Hours and Not Enforcing Working Hours

Switch Between Enforcing Working Hours and Not Enforcing Working Hours

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If you choose to switch back to NOT enforcing working hours, you can clear the Enforce these working hours option in the tool pane:

Step Action
1. On the page where you have placed Task Master, open the configuration tool pane by clicking the arrow to the right of the Task Master title bar and selecting Modify Shared Web Part.
2. In the Working Hours Settings, uncheck Enforce these working hours.
3. Click Apply and then OK to save your changes.
4. Click Recalculate on the Web Part tool bar.
5.

When you click Recalculate, Task Master updates the Due Date of your tasks to use a 24-hour day. The new Due Date is the Start Date + Duration in hours (or Start Date + Work in hours, if tasks are calculated using Start Date and Work).

NOTE: If you display Duration in days, the number of days will change when you return to a 24-hour day, but Duration in hours remains the same. For example, if you have a task with a Duration of 16 hours and you previously had working hours of 9 AM to 5 PM, Duration in days was 2 days (two 8-hour working days). When you stop enforcing working hours, the Duration is still 16 hours, but only 0.67 days (16 hours out of a 24-hour day).

In this example, working hours of 9 AM to 5 PM were previously enforced. Task Duration was 18 hours: May 4th 9 AM to 5 PM (8 hours), May 5th 9 AM to 5 PM (8 hours), and May 6th 9 AM to 11 AM (2 hours).

  • Start Date and Time: May 4, 2010 at 9 AM
  • Due Date and Time: May 6, 2010 at 11 AM

When working hours are no longer enforced, the Start Date remains the same, but a new Due Date is calculated using the Duration of 18 hours and a 24-hour workday :

  • Start Date and Time: May 4, 2010 at 9 AM (15 hours)
  • Due Date and Time: May 5, 2010 at 3 AM (3 hours)

You can also choose to format the Start and Due Date columns as Date Only instead of Date & Time. In the example above, this would change the Start Date to May 4th and the Due Date to May 5th (without a time).

Return to: Task Master Working Hours Settings