resource leveling with recurring tasks

[TN]

I have created a project plan with some recurring tasks, when I add other
tasks during the same day & do resource leveling, it workes fine when there
are no recurring tasks, MS Project is ignoring recurring tasks while
leveling. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance
TN

 

[JulieS]

Hi TN,

When you use the resource leveling command Project looks at a number of
factors to decide which task(s) should be delayed.
The list of criteria from Help:
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Available slack.
Task duration.
Task's constraints.
Task ID.
Task priority.
Task dependencies.
Scheduling dates.
=============================
Because recurring tasks are constrained, Project is less likely to delay
them over a task without constraints. If you wish to delay a recurring task
over non-recurring tasks, consider changing the task priorities (Double click
on the task and on the General tab increase/decrease the number) and then
set the leveling calculation in the Resource Leveling dialog box to Priority,
Standard. This re-orders the criteria weighting to look at Priority first.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Recurring tasks, when created, get 1000 as priority hence they are ignored
by leveling.
Open the "recurring task" ands reset the priority of the detail tasks to
f.i. 500

HTH