How to distribute several resources to the same task equally

[keysdoctor]

I have 10 physicians covering one call schedule. I defined the task as a
shift from 5pm to 8am daily, 24 hour schedule. How do I assign the 10
physicians (work resources) to the task and have one physician do each of the
calls?

 

[John]

I have 10 physicians covering one call schedule. I defined the task as a
shift from 5pm to 8am daily, 24 hour schedule. How do I assign the 10
physicians (work resources) to the task and have one physician do each of the
calls?

keysdoctor,
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems to me that the 10 physicians
are actually "on-call", that is, there is not a defined set of calls, it
will vary from shift to shift.

Project is structured to schedule and track a defined set of tasks. If
the tasks change, the plan must be changed, manually. In your scenario,
it certainly is easy enough to define a shift as a task and assign 10
physicians to that task but the only way to have a specific physician
handle a specific call is to create a separate task for that call and
assign that physician to it - kind of defeating the idea of setting up
the single shift task in the first place.

John
Project MVP

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I have written a VBA routine that does this for the evening permanence by 9
doctors GP in this town here.
It is far from "natural" but if you are interested:

I predefine a number of tasks which are combinations of doctor/1shift
The resource for all tasks (I know, seems wrong but bear with me) is "a
shift"
Basicly then you can resource-level and have one task (=1 doctor) per shift

If you also distribute the priority values logically (which is what my VBA
routine does) all doctors will in the end do the same amount of shifts
regardless of their date preferences, tehir holiday periods...

I'm sorry that I can't help you with a simpler somution.