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Leviathant
Right now I'm setting up a set of recurring tasks for an eNewsletter
project. Bear with me here.
Based on previous timesheets, I'm setting it up that every month, for
a duration of 3 days, a resource (Jared) works 1.6 hours. When this
is set up, the task has a duration of 3 days, and Jared works 7%
units, ~1.68h work.
Now, there's another task that takes a half hour, but is done once a
month. Setting this up, I set the duration to be .5h, and set Jared
to work 100% of that, which led to .5h of work.
On a different newsletter project, Jared is working on the same day,
doing similar work. .5h duration, 100% Units, .5h work. Red!
My resource usage chart shows that Jared has 7 remaining hours that
can be allocated, that he is working 1 hour that day, but that he is
at 200% of "Units." Levelling resources does nothing but give me
warnings about how it can't level resources. I have already looked at
the FAQ about overallocated resources on a single day, #34 & #28.
They seem only remotely relevant, but not a good long term answer.
I suspect I'm going about a simple task the wrong way. This is
actually the first set of projects we're entering in to the system.
The reason I'm setting a duration of three days is that I would like
the work spread out over three days, but don't have enough projects
put into Project to auto-allocate that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time,
--Matt Dunphy
Project Newbie
project. Bear with me here.
Based on previous timesheets, I'm setting it up that every month, for
a duration of 3 days, a resource (Jared) works 1.6 hours. When this
is set up, the task has a duration of 3 days, and Jared works 7%
units, ~1.68h work.
Now, there's another task that takes a half hour, but is done once a
month. Setting this up, I set the duration to be .5h, and set Jared
to work 100% of that, which led to .5h of work.
On a different newsletter project, Jared is working on the same day,
doing similar work. .5h duration, 100% Units, .5h work. Red!
My resource usage chart shows that Jared has 7 remaining hours that
can be allocated, that he is working 1 hour that day, but that he is
at 200% of "Units." Levelling resources does nothing but give me
warnings about how it can't level resources. I have already looked at
the FAQ about overallocated resources on a single day, #34 & #28.
They seem only remotely relevant, but not a good long term answer.
I suspect I'm going about a simple task the wrong way. This is
actually the first set of projects we're entering in to the system.
The reason I'm setting a duration of three days is that I would like
the work spread out over three days, but don't have enough projects
put into Project to auto-allocate that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time,
--Matt Dunphy
Project Newbie