Limited time resource assignment for a project

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Itzik

Is it possible to assign a resource for a limited time in a project?
(example, I want Joe to work on the project X from 9.2.2006 to 15.2.2006, can
we also define percentage on the project?)
 
M

Marc Soester

Hi Itzik,

You would need to use the "managed timeperiod" within the Admin tab. This
would allow you to manage the time your staff is allowed to enter times. I
know that this is not necessarly exctly what you are after, but it may help.

yes you can also "only" track percentage if you wish to do so. You can find
the different options on how to track within the admin tab of PWA under
"Costumise Project Web Access"

Hope this helps
 
G

Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Itzik:

You can certainly assign a resource for a specific work period on a project
by manually contouring the work distribution in Project. You can also set
the percentage of resource usage on tasks that fall within that time period.
However, there's absolutely no way to keep the schedule from slipping,
taking the resource assignment out of bounds and there's no way to restrict
the resource from applying time against the task outside the boundaries of
the original assignment. This is the price for dynamic schedules and
flexibility. I'm afraid that Managed time periods would be of no help to
you.

The closest you could come to this type of rigidity is to define custom
calendars, but this would only work if Joe worked only on this project and
only for that set amount of time and was unavailable for any other work at
any other time.
 
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