Resource availability problem

[Dkirkman]

Hi I am trying to set a resources availability from 3/8/04 on to 50% availability. I went into the Resource sheet, selected the resource and updated the availability table by entering 3/8/04 in the Available From column, bypassing the Available To column and then entering 50% for the percentage. I click OK but the resoure is still being assigned the full amount of work hours for the tasks scheduled after 3/8/04. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello,
You changed the availability of the resource after 3/8/04. That's all. MS
Project will not take the initiative of changing your assignments. It'll
just notify the over-allocation : now the resource name is red in the
Resource Sheet.

Gérard Ducouret

Hi I am trying to set a resources availability from 3/8/04 on to 50%

availability. I went into the Resource sheet, selected the resource and
updated the availability table by entering 3/8/04 in the Available From
column, bypassing the Available To column and then entering 50% for the
percentage. I click OK but the resoure is still being assigned the full
amount of work hours for the tasks scheduled after 3/8/04. What am I doing
wrong?

 

[DKirkman]

So does this mean that I have to manually go in and update the time? Is this happening because I didn't set the availability to 50% at the start? Going forward if I have a resource that I know is only going to be available part of the time and set the % available accordingly will MS-Project still allocate the resource for the full amount of hours? If so, what is the point of setting the resource availability?

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Yes, you'll have to manually go in and update the time. But if a task
doesn't span over a period of time with 2 different Max units (1 and 0,5
after 3/8/04 ), you can remove the old assignment and do another one : Ms
Project will respect the availability.



Gérard Ducouret

So does this mean that I have to manually go in and update the time? Is

this happening because I didn't set the availability to 50% at the start?
Going forward if I have a resource that I know is only going to be available
part of the time and set the % available accordingly will MS-Project still
allocate the resource for the full amount of hours? If so, what is the point
of setting the resource availability?