contour / level / Work/ Units / Migraine

[Bob Inwater]

I work in a schedule where I have to manually re-level the resources on a
daily basis. What I wish I could do is edit (contour / level) the resource
units for a given time period in the “Resource Units†view and have the
duration be recalculated based the original total Work.

As an example: a task originally uses 2 units for 3 weeks. Later we find
that we are going to only have 1 unit available in the second week but total
work is unchanged. If I go into “Resource Usage†and edit the units the
duration does not change and all I have done is decrease work. This problem
seems to be more or less the same regardless of what task type I use.

If there was a total work stoppage for a time period I could use a split but
generally what I have is resources being shifted back and forth. I also do
not use splits much since I almost exclusively edit in “Resource Usageâ€.


Ideas?

Thanks

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Bob,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Have a look at the Resource Sheet. Double-click a resource and in the
Resource Information dialog you can cahange the Resource Availbility to
create a contour of the number of Units available as time goes by.


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

 

[Bob Inwater]

Glenn,

I have a few resouces that are spread accross hundreds of task. I do not
think your solution works in my case but that is a very usefull tool I have
used in that past.

Thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,
After editing re-enter total work in the left part
HTH

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Have you tried editing the task type for the effected tasks to Fixed Work
before changing your resource assignments?