Resources Will Not Level

[Catfish Hunter]

Why will my resources not level. I've read all the Q&A already and never saw
a clear answer. I have a few Start No Earlier Than constrants, I have the Can
Level set to YES, I have my Max. Units set to 10 (but need 100 since it qon't
level) and I've tried everything. I also set my Task Will Always Honor Their
Consrant Dates to off. (Tools/Options/Schedule)
Any suggestions?

 

[Hammi]

Hey Catfish, what are you doing messing around with MS Project, as a former
pro baseball player, it just doesn't make sense.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Catfish ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

What levelling granularity is set in the levelling dialog? Try reducing the
period to day by day or minute by minute.

See also FAQ #28 - Resource Levelling Does Not Remove Overallocation
and/or #34 - Overallocation Occurring In Less Than One Day.

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

 

[Catfish Hunter]

I tried minute by minute with no success. I've read the FAQ questions. I need
to mention I have a filter set to a resource (Mechanical) and level the
entire project. I have a "dummp" project that I've been playing with that
works perfect! The real file will not resource level.
The mechanical activities are tied to other task that are set at priority
1000 (do not level). Does this matter.

 

[Mike Glen]

It could matter significantly. Project only delays overallocated tasks. If
the priority task's predecessor is overallocated, Project will be unable to
move it and the overallocation will be un-resolved. Try changing that
priority to a lower figure and see what happens.

Otherwise, I suspect corruption. If you suspect a corrupt file, you could
try the suggestions in FAQ Item: 43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

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

 

[Catfish Hunter]

Mike, I have all other resources set very high for now to prevent what your
talking about. The only resource I have set to the correct units are
mechanics (10). But the schedule still not resource level. All the task are
being completed in October but should start in October and complete in
December.
I tried FAQ #43 with no success.

 

[Catfish Hunter]

I also just noticed there are suddenly a large amount of task with zero
resources and zero durations.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Catfish,

I can't promise anything, I have seen leveling gone berzerk sometimes
(especially on files that have been published to Server) but as a great fan
of Leveling in Project, I would like to have a ccrack at this.
Can you send me the file (if necessary for confidentiality reasons change
all the task names to Task f.i.), I shall have a look at it.

Greetings,

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Catfish,

(For the general public, I received copy of the file)
I noticed the priority for all summary tasks was 1000.
Never seen that, and I thought "it's definitely useless and maybe harmful"
So I changed them all to 500 and I level the mechanics wiyhout any problem!

Greetings,

 

[Joe]

Clearly putting the "1000" priority will cause problems. A priority of 1000
means do not level. And if you have that at the summary level, all task
under that will not get leveled.

 

[John Sitka]

Awesome,
"it's definitely useless and maybe harmful".

It's funny cause it's true.



Thanks Jan