How can I have multiple resource pools?

[toby0]

Maybe someone can help!
Knowing project rather well, I've recently got stuck. I've set up a few
projects, created my resource pool but want to know if you can have aditional
resource pools. Ideally I'd like to have 3 resource pools and still use them
across all my projects just as you would with one. One of the resource pools
will just be for materials, another for expenses and the main one for labour.
each one is managed differently and causes massive complications if we keep
it as one!
Anyone come across the same problem o know a solution as I'm stuck.
Thanks all

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Sorry, a project can be linked to only one resource pool.

 

[toby0]

Thanks for the feedback, typical something then for the next version!

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Allow me to doubt that.
The whole logic of how pools are handled and stored is built around the 1
pool adagium.
This would really be a big, big change.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Wouldn't materials be specific to the instant project? While you can't have
more than one resource pool, you can have a one resource pool plus
additional resources in this project. I don't understand needing a resource
pool file for expenses since those aren't resources at all - expenses are
the money you have to pay for the labour and material resources. Expenses
like per diem I suggest tracking as a material resource used up over the
course of the applicable tasks. Expenses such as rents or travel I suggest
tracking in Excel and dropping the totals into the fixed cost fields in
Project for the tasks or summaries that use them, perhaps using linking so
they update automatically. I can't stress too strongly - don't try to use
Project for your project's financial accounting, it's simply not designed to
do that. Its cost tracking is geared towards estimating the project budget
and monitoring performance against that budget and it is by no means
sufficiently detailed, comprehensive, or accurate enough to track the actual
financial performance. That's what you have accounting software for. For
instance, in the real world it is not uncommon to have overtime hours begin
at time-and-a-half and then at some point double-time kicks in. Yet Project
only allows for 1 overtime rate.