Leveling Splits Tasks Into Small Pieces

[FSinIDuser]

I want to force Project to assign a ONLY full day of work to a resource when
leveling for certain tasks. E.g. I assign Resource A to Task X. Task X is a
field job and requires a full day to complete because of travel to/from the
job site. What happens is, Project levels Resource A to work on Task X for
everything BUT a full day (say 3 hrs/day). Essentially, I want Project to do
this: IF assigning Resource A to Task X THEN Resource A MUCT be assigned at
least 8 hrs/day. Anyone know how to make this happen?

 

[DonL]

If these "field" assignments are appointments that will take priority over
other tasks assigned to the resource, you could assign a Priority of 1000 to
these tasks which means DO NOT LEVEL this task. Other assignments may suffer,
though.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

The only way I see is to define the "task" as a series of 1day tasks (which
they are in reality if I understand you well) and then in the leveling
window cross out Levling can Split tasks

HTH

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Leveling doesn't assign resources or change their assignments. All it can
do is delay when some or all of their work on the task will take place in
order to resolve double bookings. It can split the task up when necessary
to resolve overallocation conflicts with a higher priority task in a time
frame shorter than the task duration or you can set it so it will move the
entire task as a block to resolve an overallocation during any part of it.
Joe is booked to task A for 5 days starting Monday. He's also booked to
higher priority 1-day task B on Wednesday, higher priority meaning it's more
important for B to start and finish Wed than it is for A to finish Fri.
Leveling will either split A to free him up on Wednesday, moving the
remainder of A to resume Thursday and finish Monday or it can move the
entire task A to start on Thurs and finish the following Wed. (Using days
for illustration but the principle applies equally to hours as well.)
Anything more sophisticated than that you'll have to resolve by hand.