Resource Allocation in a Master Project Plan

[Gretchen]

I am trying to set up a master schedule for all of my company's
projects, with a special focus on providing a calendar or schedule which
shows who is working on what and when. I've assigned resources but when
I go to view Resource Usage, it goes by project but I can't tell which
project we're talking about. And because we try to make the task wording
consistent, it's very confusing.

What I would like (if it's possible) is to see one person's name and
below it, all of their tasks for all of the projects -- and the tasks
tagged in a way that I know which project that task goes with.

Is this even possible? (Please say yes!)
How to other folks use master project plans to easily track who is
doing what/when?

thanks!

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Gretchen,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

In the Resource Usage view, try inserting the Project column.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[JulieS]

Hello Gretchen,

Add the Project field to the Resource Usage view. (Insert >Column
in the menu). The Project field will show the project name and path
that the assignments come from.

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

Julie
Project MVP

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

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Add the "Project" field to the view.

 

[Gretchen]

Ugh. You guys are brilliant! Now I'm embarrassed to say how long I've
been trying to figure this out THANK YOU!