Resources counted multiple times

[Donal P]

For some reason, Project has decided to count one task multiple times in each
of the resources assigned to it. I assigned up to five people to several
tasks in the Gantt chart view, and then when I went to level the resources in
the 'resource usage' view I noticed that some (but not all) of the tasks were
counted multiple times. This leads to serious overbooking of the resources.

Any thoughts on why this is happening, and what I can do to fix it?

I also noticed that the dependencies in some of the duplicated tasks got
replicated by the same number of times the tasks repeated for the resource.
That is, the dependency of one task (which was duplicated four times in a
particular resource) was shown as '12,12,12,12' - instead of the '12' I had
initially put there.

Thoughts, anyone? TIA...

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Donal,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

What version of Project are you using and has it the latest Service Pack (eg
2003 is up to SP3)?

We need to discover whether your project is at fault, whether it is Project
at fault, or whether it's your PC. Does the symptom occur with other
projects on this PC? Does it occur with this project on other PCs? Does it
occur with other projects on other PCs?

It sounds to me like a corrupt project: you could try the suggestions in FAQ
Item: 43. Handling project file corruption and/or bloat.

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
Project MVP

 

[Scott S]

I had a similar problem using a resource pool and "save as" to create new
versions of the project. Each version of the project was regarded as a
separate set of tasks in the resource pool, so I had to open all the old
versions and remove the "share resources" option.

Good luck,

Scott