Any chance of ever getting a contour pattern that "fills in the gaps"?

[Steve Schacher]

I'm looking for an enhancement to leveling that behaves
like Project Workbench's contour pattern that will fill in
remaining gaps with time from a task.

I want to be able to assign resources to baseline tasks
with fixed percents of time, and also be able to assign
them to additional fixed work tasks at whatever
availability is left and then let the leveler find the
time to schedule the task by reducing the daily work to
whatever is needed to reach the resource's max
availability. I'm guessing that the best way to do this is
by enhancing the usage of contour patterns on an
assignment by assignment basis. Currently, I have to look
at a resource's histogram to see what their percent
allocation is during the periods in question and then
enter the remaining percent as the units for the
assignment. I'd like to see MSP enhanced to do this for me
if I set a designated contour pattern.

Any chance of MSP satisfying this need (want?) in a future
release?

Steve Schacher
ChevronTexaco

 

[Jack D.]

I'm looking for an enhancement to leveling that behaves
like Project Workbench's contour pattern that will fill in
remaining gaps with time from a task.

I want to be able to assign resources to baseline tasks
with fixed percents of time, and also be able to assign
them to additional fixed work tasks at whatever
availability is left and then let the leveler find the
time to schedule the task by reducing the daily work to
whatever is needed to reach the resource's max
availability. I'm guessing that the best way to do this is
by enhancing the usage of contour patterns on an
assignment by assignment basis. Currently, I have to look
at a resource's histogram to see what their percent
allocation is during the periods in question and then
enter the remaining percent as the units for the
assignment. I'd like to see MSP enhanced to do this for me
if I set a designated contour pattern.

Any chance of MSP satisfying this need (want?) in a future
release?

Steve Schacher
ChevronTexaco

In the future anything is possible, however people have been asking for this
for a long time and it has not yet been included.
I wouldn't hold my breath.

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