Display non-working time in Resource Usage view?

[Dina]

Hi,

We're just starting to use Project 2003, and we're trying to create reports
of what different employees are doing. So, the Resource Usage view shows
their assignment to tasks, but it doesn't show that the week is actually
marked non-working for an employee. Is there any way to do that?

 

[Rod Gill]

Only if you create a leave project and tasks, but that involves overhead, so
how important is it?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Dina,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Format/Timescale and in the Non-working time tab you can select the
resource's individual calendar.

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this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[Dina]

Hi Mike and Rob,

Thank you for replying! Mike - that displays only one resource's non-working
time at a time... What we need is to have the Resource Usage view, but have
the day/weeks that are non-working for each person shaded a different
color/pattern.

WIth creating other tasks - is that what that macro some posts have
mentioned is for? But as far as I understand, the "leveling" (I have a very
dim understanding of this function) would apply to all tasks, so if some of
our employees are overscheduled, it would remove that? We don't want to do
that - we need to be able to see who is overscheduled and deal with it
manually. So is there no other way to see vacation times in the general
report? That's seems like it would be a key function of any planning
software.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Dina,

What you ask for cannot be done without creating a non-working task for each
resource for every occurrance of absence. This seemes to be a lot of
trouble to manually level when Project can do it for you. You could create
a set of macros to show each individual's non-working time calendar.


Mike Glen
Project MVP