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  • 1.  Calendar Use in differents countries

    Posted Aug 17, 2018 12:46 PM

    Hi, 

     

    We manage projects that works for differents countries.  The headquater is in Chile nevertheless in CA PPM we have projects from Argentina, Colombia, Brasil, Peru, Mexico. In this stage many projects doesn't have resources in every task (only PM update the %complete in the gantt) thus there are a lot of task without resources, then the calendars that apply is the base calendar.

     

    The base calendar for our CA PPM is Chile calendar, then to upload, for example, a Brasil project , in many cases original dates changes because apply base calendar (Chile calendar in this case). How can I do to get the right dates in our gantts? 

     

    Thanks a lot,

     

    Cira



  • 2.  Re: Calendar Use in differents countries

    Posted Aug 20, 2018 02:28 AM

    Hi Cira,

     

    From your query, it seems you will be having projects, which would have resources from different geographical locations.

    There is no project of team specific calendar in the system, however, the resources working on a project, could have specific calendars. So if you create a Calendar in the Clarity, for example named as Brazil and you mark the working and non working days accordingly on it. The calendar on applicable resources, could be set to that of the Brazil based calendar. Accordingly, the availability of the resource will be displayed in the projects, to which the resources are allocated.

     

    In general the standard calendar is referred to in the project, whereas the resource calendar could be different. Any work cannot be allocated on a non working day, on respective calendars. 

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Regards,

    Samik



  • 3.  Re: Calendar Use in differents countries

    Posted Aug 20, 2018 03:59 AM

    Just wondering about

    The base calendar for our CA PPM is Chile calendar, then to upload, for example, a Brasil project , in many cases original dates changes because apply base calendar (Chile calendar in this case). How can I do to get the right dates in our gantts? 

     

    As Samik writes in CA PPM there is only one single calendar for projects. That is the base calendar.

    What you describe should not happen unless you autoschedule the project.

     

    The base calendar for our CA PPM is Chile calendar, then to upload, for example, a Brasil project that should still use the Chile calendar and no dates should change if they are working days in the Chile calendar.

     

    Open a case with support.

     

    Edit

    On the other hand any project you reate will be using Chile calendar and not eg. Brasil calendar. Only resousres can use different calendars



  • 4.  Re: Calendar Use in differents countries

    Posted Aug 20, 2018 05:24 AM

    Hello Cira,

     

    Apart from creating new Base Calendars, CA PPM tool also allows one to create new Calendars related to Country - States/Cities, which can be mapped to the respective Country Base Calendar. This is helpful in associating country public holidays to different states/cities within that country and additional states/cities holidays can be defined within the new Country - States/Cities Calendars mapped to the respective Country Base Calendar.

     

    Suhail.