Prompt before reallocating resources?

[Rick Shores]

We're upgrading from an older version of Project (much older) to 2003, and
we've found a really wierd issue:

We use one master project with all of our real projects as sub-projects of
that main project. We've got one resource pool, and all of the projects are
set to share the same resource pool. If we assign a resource to do a task and
then level the resource usage, project will move resources around (as it
determines that they're needed) without telling us, or prompting, or
anything! We use Project mostly for scheduling jobs, and having the program
changing our peoples schedules without telling us is doing us no good at all.

Any thoughts?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Rick --

It sounds like you have Automatic resource leveling enabled, which allows
Microsoft Project to level resource overallocations immediately without
asking your permissions. We recommend you always use Manual leveling so
that you take control of when and how the overallocations get leveled. To
change this setting, ask each of your Microsoft Project users to do the
following:

1. Launch Microsoft Project 2003
2. Click Tools - Level Resources
3. Select the Manual option at the top of the dialog
4. Click OK

Hope this helps.