Assign task to one of a team, not bothered who

[ChrisJ]

I am using Project 2007 to plan for this summers upgrades in the school I
work at.

I have 1 senior tech, 3 technicians and 2 hired hands. to use. I 've
grouped them as tech 1, tech 2 and tech 3 in the resources sheet. I want to
assign each task to the group and for project to work out who will do it
based on availability, annual leave etc.

I don't want assign an individual person as this will mean reassigning every
time the project start dates move. Also if I add another member to one of
the groups it should be able to reduce the overall time for all our tasks
without assigning tasks to the individual.

One of my technicians (in the tech 2 group) only works 4 days per week.

Project help suggests click the task, click the assign resource button and
choose the group but my list doesn't show any groups!

Any ideas?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Chris,

I'm afraid what you ask is beyond Project's features.
You will have to either define the group as a resource (but that means it
has no relation whatsoever to individuals) or assign the individuals.
Sorry.