Can't Change Working Time After Running Macro to Edit Calendar

ID: Q126986

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Project for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project, you may not be able to use the Change Working Time dialog box to change the working and nonworking days on the calendar after you run a macro that edits the base calendar.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs if you use the Working property in a Visual Basic, Applications Edition, macro to set the working or nonworking days for a date range on the base calendar. The problem occurs if the date range you specify extends beyond one month. When this occurs, you cannot use the Change Working Time dialog box to change the working time for the days in the second and following months in that date range.

For example, if you run a macro that contains the following command

    ActiveProject.BaseCalendars(1).Period("3/29/95", "5/5/95").Working = _
       False

when you open the Change Working Time dialog box, and select the month of April 1995, you cannot select the Working option for any of the days in this month. The Nonworking option remains selected for each day in the range 3/29/95 to 5/5/95.

WORKAROUNDS

To work around this problem, use any of the following methods.

Method 1

Use the BaseCalendarEditDays Method to edit the base calendar as in the following example:

   Sub ChangeWorkDays
      ' Set all days in the range 3/29/95 to 5/5/95 as nonworking
      BaseCalendarEditDays Name:="Standard", startDate:="3/29/95", _
        endDate:="5/5/95", Working:=False
   End Sub

Method 2

Use the Working Property of the Period object with one month intervals. For example, use the following three commands to set the Working property to the value False for the entire range 3/29/95 to 5/5/95 instead of one command:

   Sub ChangeWorkDays
     ActiveProject.BaseCalendars(1).Period("3/29/95","3/31/95").Working = _
       False
     ActiveProject.BaseCalendars(1).Period("4/1/95","4/30/95").Working = _
       False
     ActiveProject.BaseCalendars(1).Period("5/1/95","5/5/95").Working = _
       False
   End Sub

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q126987
   TITLE     : Exceptions Lost After Running Macro to Edit Calendar

REFERENCES

For more information about the BaseCalendars Method, choose the Search button in the Visual Basic Reference and type:

    BaseCalendars

For more information about the Working Property, choose the Search button in the Visual Basic Reference and type:

    Working

For more information about the BaseCalendarEditDays Method, choose the Search button in the Visual Basic Reference and type:

    BaseCalendarEditDays

Additional query words: 4.00

Keywords          : kbcode kbprg
Version           : 4.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: November 25, 1997