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May 17, 2012
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ProjectLink durations

  • May 17, 2012
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ProjectLink admins,

I did a quick search on the PTC tech support website and the PTCuser website and was not able to find anything. We just moved from 9.0 M060 to 9.1 M060 and now it looks like durations in ProjectLink are acting different. I logged a call to PTC Tech support yesterday morning to confirm and have yet to hear back from them.

Back in 9.0 I would enter in a duration and it would show up just like I type it in.

Now in 9.1 if I type in a duration and it lands on a weekend it will automatically add an extra two days.

Is this a setting or a functionality change?

Thanks for your help.
Rich

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May 18, 2012

Hello,


The following two properties (described in the properties.html file in codebase) might be helpful to you in this regard. As you'll see, the default value for wt.calendar.calculateDefaults prior to 8.0 was false, which directed the system to check for non-working days and take those days into account when calculating duration. The current default is true, which calls for use of a fixed calendar with default non-working days:


wt.calendar.calculateDefaults


Default: true
Synopsis: Control whether task due dates and project plan estimated finish dates depend on system and user calendar working days.
Description: True - Do not check the system or individual users calendars for non-working days defined when calculating task due dates or project plan activity estimated finish dates. Use instead a fixed calendar with default non-working days specified by the wt.calendar.nonWorkDaysOfTheWeek property (which defaults to 1,7 with Sunday = 1st day of week and Saturday = 7th day of week) for all weeks of the year. This is the default value for Windchill 8.0 and improves system performance --particularly for tasks or activities with long durations (many days or weeks). False - Check the system and user calendars for non-working days defined and take these days into account when calculating task due dates and project plan activity finish dates. This was the default setting for versions prior to Windchill 8.0.



wt.calendar.nonWorkDaysOfTheWeek


Default: 1,7
Synopsis: The typical weekly non-work days.
Description: These are the days of each week that will be marked as non-working days in the Windchill System Calendar. The days are numbered 1 through 7 - Sunday being 1, and Saturday being 7. If these days are changed, the Method Server must be restarted and the ResetAll button must be selected in the Windchill System Calendar client before the modification takes place.


I hope this is helpful.


Jane
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