error "task starts in nonworking time" when scheduled for a working day

Question

I get the error "task starts in nonworking time" for a task that I'm trying to schedule for what I believe is a working day. 

I've checked the working times , calendar settings etc but keeps saying its a non working day if i try to force it to that day if manually scheduling or pushes to next day if in automatic scheduling mode.

any suggestions?

cheers

Alan

Answer 1

Milligano,

First of all which version of Project are you using? And, do you have the latest updates installed? (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587).

There are three calendars that can effect when tasks are scheduled - the project calendar (default if the other two calendars are not applicable), the task calendar (if one is created for a task), and the resource calendar (if different than either of the other two). Check all those calendars, if applicable for working days and times.

That's a starting point, then we can go from there if nothing pops out of that review.

John