Editing hours in Usage Views

[Mani]

Hi
My project is effort driven with fixed units. With either the Task Usage or the Resource Usage view, can I manually edit hours for each resource without affecting MS Project automatic scheduling

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Mani,

Only if you put Calculation to Manual (which stops all calculations
altogether)
But I fail to see why yoy would wnt that.
HTH
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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Hi,
My project is effort driven with fixed units. With either the Task Usage

or the Resource Usage view, can I manually edit hours for each resource
without affecting MS Project automatic scheduling?

 

[Mani]

My objective is to be able to update the remaining work for each resource for each task for each week. Every week I am given an update of the Actual Work and sometimes, an adjustment of the remaining work. However, if I have 2 or more resources assigned to a task, I find that the work may not be distributed correctly. For example a task that is estimated for 40 hours may require Jim to be assigned for 30 and Jane for 10, but may actually be 20/20. The only way that I have figured so far to do this is by updating it manually in a Time Scaled Task or Resource usage view... Any suggestions?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Well yes, you can do that, and you can enter remaining work for each of the
assignments, no problem.
My question was why stop Project from rescheduling the remaining work?
Note: if you enter reemaining work for both assignments, Project will not
recalculate that, but it may reschedule it (not the same thing)
HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620

My objective is to be able to update the remaining work for each resource

for each task for each week. Every week I am given an update of the Actual
Work and sometimes, an adjustment of the remaining work. However, if I have
2 or more resources assigned to a task, I find that the work may not be
distributed correctly. For example a task that is estimated for 40 hours
may require Jim to be assigned for 30 and Jane for 10, but may actually be
20/20. The only way that I have figured so far to do this is by updating it
manually in a Time Scaled Task or Resource usage view... Any suggestions?

 

[Mani]

Jan, Thanks fior the response.
I want MS Project to reschedule automatically when I update Actual Work. I am a little confused though. Can you tell me how I would udpate Actual Work for a task that has 2 resources assigned who have different max units allocated? That should answer my questions completely.

Thanks again.