Automatic countour ... is it possible??

[JCTP]

Hi folks. Hope you can help me.

I´m working on a schedule and I´m having problems in resolving some
overallocations.

I have one task assigned to an analyst, and some support tasks
assigned also to him.

For example (considering 8 hours work by day)
Main_task is 32 hours work and 4 days duration

Support_task is 2 hours work and 2 hours duration.

Let's say that Support_task falls in the middle of the development of
Main_Task

What I´d like is to be able to automatically level the overallocation
that happens during that single day. Very much like what I can
manually do by editing the hours directly in the "Resource Usage" view
(manual countour).

By manually countouring I can get as a result, that Main_task will
last 5 days (34 hours).

Changing the units of the tasks will result in using less hours during
the whole duration of the task, increasing the duration of the task
more than two hours. In this example, If I change units for Main_task
to 80% I will be having 6.4 hours for the first days, even though
there was no overallocation there.


Thanks for any help

Juan Carlos

 

[JulieS]

Hello Juan Carlos,

Have you tried assigning a higher priority to the support task and
using the Leveling Order "Priority, Standard" allowing Project to
split the main task during leveling?

The main task can begin as scheduled, when the support task occurs,
the main task stops and then re-starts two hours later. The increase
to the main task is only the two hours duration and the analyst
remains working at 100% to both tasks.

Project will never change resource assignment units like you can by
manually editing work in the Resource Usage or Task Usage view.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Leave all to 100%. Good.
Give the small task a very high priority say 999
Tools, Level Resources
Hour by Hour or Minute by Minute
Leveing order priority, standard
Check that "Leveling can split..." is on

Level Now.
Please.
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Hi folks. Hope you can help me.

I´m working on a schedule and I´m having problems in resolving some
overallocations.

I have one task assigned to an analyst, and some support tasks
assigned also to him.

For example (considering 8 hours work by day)
Main_task is 32 hours work and 4 days duration

Support_task is 2 hours work and 2 hours duration.

Let's say that Support_task falls in the middle of the development of
Main_Task

What I´d like is to be able to automatically level the overallocation
that happens during that single day. Very much like what I can
manually do by editing the hours directly in the "Resource Usage" view
(manual countour).

By manually countouring I can get as a result, that Main_task will
last 5 days (34 hours).

Changing the units of the tasks will result in using less hours during
the whole duration of the task, increasing the duration of the task
more than two hours. In this example, If I change units for Main_task
to 80% I will be having 6.4 hours for the first days, even though
there was no overallocation there.


Thanks for any help

Juan Carlos

 

[JCTP]

Thanks for your help guys.

This is exactly what I needed

Cheers!

 

[JulieS]

Thanks for your help guys.

This is exactly what I needed

Cheers!

You're welcome Juan Carlos and thanks for the feedback.

Julie