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Elapsed Durations and Microsoft Project Interface

Project managers can enter duration as working days or elapsed (calendar) days in Microsoft Project. An elapsed duration is the amount of time that a task takes to finish, based on a 24-hour day and a 7-day week, including holidays and other nonworking days. To schedule tasks to occur during working and nonworking time, the project manager assigns an elapsed duration to a task (by preceding the duration abbreviation with the letter e) in Microsoft Project. For example, 3ed indicates three elapsed days, whether those days are working or nonworking days.

The Microsoft Project Interface (not the Legacy version) retains the elapsed duration values when you open and save a project from Microsoft Project into CA Clarity PPM. For Microsoft Project task dependencies, this interface also retains the elapsed durations for leads (accelerations or overlaps) and lags (delays or gaps) in the schedule. However, you can view and edit the elapsed durations only in Microsoft Project. The Microsoft Project elapsed durations are maintained in CA Clarity PPM, unless you modify the task start, finish, duration, or dependencies. If you do so, the durations are converted to working days.

Note: Microsoft Project 2010 or a later version is required to retain elapsed durations in CA Clarity PPM.

The Microsoft Project Interface Legacy does not retain the elapsed duration values from Microsoft Project into CA Clarity PPM. Durations that are elapsed days in Microsoft Project are converted into working days in CA Clarity PPM.