Problem with setting Resource Availability

[Dee]

I have resources that I need to set for particular availability on a project,
but don't want them to show as having any other remaining availability other
than for that project. I'm using the Resource Availability box under Resource
Information, and setting the start/end dates and available units. But the
units are not setting; it either wants 1 or 0. It was working last week! I
could set availability to be any percentage I wanted for a set range of
dates. Not sure what's happened, but this is very important so that these
resources are not counted as overall available when I run monthly reports.
But I still want to show who's working on a project. Can anyone tell me
what's happened here and how to be able to reset specific availability?
Thanks!

 

[JulieS]

Hello Dee,

If the dialog box is only accepting 1 or zero, it may be that your
setting "Show assignment units as a:" was changed to decimal.

Go to Tools > Options, Schedule tab and set it back to percentage.
Then see if you can enter the percentages.

Also be cautious about the dates you enter -- if the project schedule
gets shifted, you will most likely have to change the resource
availability dates again.


I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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about Microsoft Project

 

[Dee]

Thanks. I was using decimals to represent the percentage, and was inputting
that inside the resource availability box. I went back to the Schedule tabl
to double check, and somehow it's now working. But thanks for the help. In
fact, everything that I put in yesterday that had disappeared has now
mysteriously reaappeared. That's Project for you!

Dee

 

[JulieS]

Hi Dee,

You're welcome for the help. I've known Project to do some odd
things -- but never have data appear and then disappear

The important thing is that all is well with your project currently
and you can get on to "bigger and better" things.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
about Microsoft Project

 

[davegb]

Thanks. I was using decimals to represent the percentage, and was inputting
that inside the resource availability box. I went back to the Schedule tabl
to double check, and somehow it's now working. But thanks for the help. In
fact, everything that I put in yesterday that had disappeared has now
mysteriously reaappeared. That's Project for you!

Dee

If Project did that to me, I create a new file. Sounds like your file
is corrupted and may well go bonky on you again, just when you've
spent hours creating it and need it badly.

Hope this helps in your world.