leveling Ressoueces (with different units)

[MAT]

Hi...
Yesterday i sent a Question about leveling the resources. But i think, i
could not explain it good. Let me write it a different way..

I have a task (8 hours). The unit of the resource is %25
So i have:
8-9 9-10 10-11 11-12 13-14.....
0,25h 0,25h 0,25h 0,25h 0,25 h

is there aynway to do it so (without making the unit %100)):
8-9 9-10 10-11 11-12 13-14.....
1h 1h 0 0

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Mat,
Set the Units at 100% and enter the Work values in the Resource Usage view
with a timescale: days and hours

Gérard Ducouret

 

[MAT]

I wrote a Makro for that..
Thx for the Help...
Bye..

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

I'm very glad you have a solution now.
Just to insist that if you want the resource to work 1 hr between 8 and 9
the assignment units must be 100% because they reflect the maximum usage
during the task not an average.
HTH

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

No, because as I explained yesterday, what you are describing as the desired
schedule is the work pattern of a resource assigned 100% to a 2 hour
duration task, by the very definition of Work and Duration. It is what it
is and wanting something else is doomed to frustration - 2+2 equals 4
whether you like it or not. Remember duration is the amount of (potential
working) time units between when work is first performed on a task and when
it is finished. If work starts on your task at 8am and finishes at 10am,
that's a 2 hour duration task by definition - period, end of story. If your
resource is spending his full time during those 2 hours doing that task and
produces 2 hours of FTE work output in the process, he is assigned 100%,
again by definition. If you set up an 8 hour duration task and assign the
resource to it 25% and watch him work, you're going to see him physically
involved in doing that task from 8am until 5pm.

Viewed another way, if the task is to make 100 widgets and he can make 50 an
hour doing nothing else, 2 hours at 100% means at 10am he has finished all
100, 8 hours at 25% means at 10am he has only finished 25 widgets and will
be working on them off and on until 5pm to do all 100.