Showing overallocated resources in a gantt chart

[Garry Collins]

Hi,

Is it possible to show that a resource has been
overallocated in a gantt chart? I have tried a number of
custom fields that looked promising, but they didn't seem
to change when I forced a resource to be overallocated.

Cheer's,

Garry.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Gary,
There are several possibilities, one of them consists in creating a new
combined view :

View / More views / New... / Combination view
Top : Resource Graph
Bottom : Gantt Chart

In the Resource Management tool bar, the "Go To Next Overallocation" button
(the 3rd one) positions you right on the overallocation picks

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Steve House]

The Gantt chart is displaying information from *task* fields while the
resource overallocation is a *resource* field. What/how exactly do you want
to see the resource info?

 

[Garry Collins]

Hi Steve,

What/how exactly do you want
to see the resource info?

I am using the Gantt chart as my primary planning
and "what if" tool. As I am allocating resources in the
gantt view, I would like to see if I have overallocated a
resource in the same view, rather than have a split
screen. Even though the gantt is task based, I presumed
that it had links to resource fields (including
overallocated) as I am defining resources and durations in
this view.

My ideal solution is a column in the gantt view that will
show a flag if the resource(s) allocated to the particular
task is overallocated at any point in that task. (The flag
would of course show in the other task(s) that had the
resource overallocated)

As I am not a Project expert, I may be asking the
imposible?

Thanks for your reply.

Garry.

 

[Steve]

What about the circumstance where you have two resources on a task, one
overallocated one day halfway through but the other not overallocated at
all. Which resource should control the flag?

You could po\robably accomplish this with some VB code but since I'm the
first to admit I'm not a VB guru I'll defer to those of my colleages who
are.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Garry Collins]

Hi Steve,

What about the circumstance where you have two
resources on a task, one...

True, not an easy call, but in my circumstances I would
opt for the "worst" case ... overallocated = true.

I have now put this in my "too hard" basket


Thanks,

Garry.