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Calendar Formulas for Job Scheduling

The document discusses using calendar formulas to calculate job stop times on a calendar. The formulas developed to calculate job stop times in hours can also be applied to calculate job stop times in days on a Julian calendar. The calendar formulas can reference a calendar on another worksheet or even another workbook. This allows multiple schedules to share the same calendar while keeping calculation speeds quicker if the calendar is in the same workbook. Errors may occur if a job start time is before or after the dates in the referenced calendar.

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Calendar Formulas for Job Scheduling

The document discusses using calendar formulas to calculate job stop times on a calendar. The formulas developed to calculate job stop times in hours can also be applied to calculate job stop times in days on a Julian calendar. The calendar formulas can reference a calendar on another worksheet or even another workbook. This allows multiple schedules to share the same calendar while keeping calculation speeds quicker if the calendar is in the same workbook. Errors may occur if a job start time is before or after the dates in the referenced calendar.

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Using the Calendar Formulas

The formulas for calculating the job stop time through the calendar, that we developed in section 6, works just as well on days
as it does on hours, so it can be applied to the Julian calendar like this:

Start of first job: ###

Seq Jobs Hours Days Start Calc1 Calc2 Calc3 Stop

1 job A 7 0.291667 ### 7 0.520833 10 ###


2 job C 4 0.166667 ### 10 0.8125 11 ###
3 job D 5 0.208333 ### 11 0.979167 13 ###
4 job E 8 0.333333 ### 13 1.1875 17 ###
5 job B 12 0.5 ### 17 1.520833 22 ###

=C10/24 days are hours 24 - we need to convert to use the Julian calendar
=IF(I9,I9,E$6) if there is a stop time of the previous job, start then, if not use "Start of first job" in E6
=MATCH(G10+D10,'Section 8'!$E$10:$E$39)+1 the calendar formulas have been explained in Section 6, but no
the calendar on Section 8 is referenced from from this worksh

Not only can you reference the calendar if it is on another worksheet, but it can also be in another workbook.
Try this experiment:

- open a new workbook (File|New|Workbook)


- make two windows (Window|Arrage|Horizontal)
- click on the tab of Section 8 and drag the worksheet into the new workbook
- now look at the calendar formulas, and see how they have "followed" the calendar to its new workbook
- save the new workbook as "Calendar" in another folder on your hard drive, or elsewhere on your network, and clos
- the formulas establish a link to the calendar, which includes the full path to the workbook
- you can confirm this with Edit|Links

This can be useful if you want several schedules to share the same calendar, but the calculation speed is quicker if the
calendar is in the same workbook.

As with the schedules in Section3 and 4, you can change the hours, or the start of the first job, or the sequence numbers
and sort to re-sequence, and see how the calculations respond.

If you try and start before the calendar begins, or you drop off the end of the calendar, the formulas will return errors.
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