Having mpp calculate units based on actual finish

[Hemmige S Prashanth]

Dear MPP users,

I need one help. I use MPP 2003.

1. Let us say, I have a task A that has a planned work of 40 hours, spanning
Monday through Friday. This task has a resource 'R' allocated. 'R' is
supposed to spend 8 hours every day.
2. Now, on the 'next' Monday, when I want to take status from 'R', I find
from his timesheet, that he has over stayed and completed the task in 4 days.
3. I now go to the 'Actual Work' column, enter 40, and then go to the
'Actual Finish' and say that the task finished on Thursday as against a
planned finish of Friday.
4. At this point I would expect MPP to change the units on 'R' to indicate
that, in reality, 'R' was overloaded and spent effort equivalent to 125%
units (as against planned 100% units planned).

Issue: (4) above does not work. When I enter the actual finish as Thursday,
then the MPP will go and change the 'Actual Work' to what is thinks is
possible in 4 days. Since I want the actual work to be accurate, I'm forced
to live with a situation where the actual finish is incorrect. How do I
resolve this situation?

Thanks in advance.

Prashanth
Bangalore, India

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Try using the task usage or resource usage view to update the tasks. You can
put the work on the exact dates you want it to be on.

-Jack Dahlgren