Activities Taking Less Than a Day

That's possibly a stupid question, but I could not really find an answer so far in the online manual. Points to the correct docs are appreciated.

How can I deal with Acitivities which will only take about a few hours at most?

Are Activities supposed to be larger chunks of work? If so, how do I model small "Activities" in ProjeQtor?

I currently modelled several Activities which will only take about an hour or slightly longer, far from a whole day. However I don't seem to be able switch the "duration" input boxes to "hours", they always state "days". I was only able to switch the work allocation boxes from days to hours, but this didn't have any effect on the estimated duration entry boxes.

In this forum I read about the possibility to work with half-day activities at least, but I also cannot figure out how to do this. The input box does not accept "0.5" and while I can enter "0,5", this will be interpreted as "0" by ProjeQtor, which is clearly not what I intended it to be...

Another question which doesn't get clear from the manual: If a lower Activity priority value "more important" or a higher one?

Everywhere it's stated that Activity planning is done according to priority values, but I couldn't find a single place which actually explains how the priorities are supposed to be used. And while I already played with ProjeQtor for quite a while now, my modelled Projects / Activities are not yet sufficiently fleshed out such that I could just try it with the integrated planner. This will probably still take a while until I get to the point that I can actually press this button...

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure if we understood each other correctly.

All you need to do is go to the global parameters and then to the work section, then into work unit to change from day to hour.
Priorities are taken into account only after dependencies and some planning modes while respecting the availability and the working capacity of the resources.

Please refer to the attached screenshots:

As I wrote, I was able to switch the work allocation boxes to hours with the config settings you see in the first screenshot.


However, the planning effort boxes do not respect this setting and still show "days" as the unit, as shown in the second screenshot.



How can I make those boxes respect the "hours" setting, as you suggest?

you can also use checklist or jobs list if you do not want to plan your activities because they are very short.

What is the "checklist" or "jobs list" you're suggesting to use? I've not read about those concepts so far in conjunction with ProjeQtOr. (pq.ohrner-it.com/docs/user/html_en/Concept.html)

Another question which doesn't get clear from the manual: If a lower Activity priority value "more important" or a higher one?

Also, I still didn't understand whether a higher priority value means "more important" or a lower one - however I guess this distinction will be very important for correct planning.

So which value means "more important", a lower value ("Priority 1") or a higher value ("Priority 999")?

Thanks and regards,

Gunter

Thanks a lot for your answer!