Restricting the Assignment of Resources

[Brian Bulson]

I am attempting to utilize Microsoft Project to help assist in assigning
workers to multiple editing assignments. Basically, the editing of a
particular article is split up into three review phases and in each phase a
worker will edit a particular portion of the entire article, in the next
phase a different worker will review that portion of the article. My goal is
to make sure that a worker does not get assigned to the same portion of the
article in any of the three phases. I would like to find a way to set a task
such that it will not allow me to assign a worker to it if that same person
worked on a particular other task. Basically, I want to be able for a
particular task to say who NOT to schedule based on other tasks a particular
worker completed so that no worker is ever reviewing the same part twice.
What features could I use to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
I haven't found any particular features in Project to handle this.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Brian,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

If you haven't got too many workers you could use Flags, different colours,
or fields (columns), but these are limited. How may resources are you
using?

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

 

[Brian Bulson]

I have about 50 resources, but about 10-15 will work on an individual
article. Out of the 10-15 working on an article I want to make sure they
don't get assigned to edit the same pages twice during three seperate editing
phases. During each phase, the 10 workers will work on an assigned set of
pages, then during the next two phases I want to make sure the same worker
doesn't get assigned to the same pages. You suggest I can accomplish this
with flags?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Brian,

I don't think Project can ensure this, but I was thinking of using Flagsto
colour the bars for each resource. YOU (not Project) woulod then have the
visibility to ensure what you want. In which case, you might like to see
FAQ Item: 31 - Customizing Task Bars. Otherwise, you could try posting on
the microsoft.public.project.developer newsgroup and ask for some vba coding
help.

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