Gantt ressource view

[Lars]

I have made a projct plan with tasks and assigned ressources and it looks
fine i a Gantt Chart - but is it possible to get a Gantt view on the
ressourceses i.e. ressource names in the left colum and bars right to it
showing allocation over time?

Regards
Lars

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

Not quite, but you can come close. In your menu go to Project, Group. In
the Grouping dialog box choose More Groups, New (group). Create a group
which uses the Resource Name as the first level outline field and apply it.
You'll see the tasks arranged by each resource assignment. Use the outline
tools on the formating toolbar to collapse the task and you'll see just the
resources. This isn't quite the same thing as what you describe because if
you have 2 resources, Joe and Bill, and you assign them to tasks so that
sometimes just one of them is on the task and other times they're working
together, you won't just see two task groups but rather you'll see three -
"Joe", "Bill", and "Joe, Bill"

Another option is the Resource Usage view. It will show the hours of work
against the timescale instead of pretty picture bars but it does reveal the
same information, and more, that your Gantt-type view would show - how the
resource's workloads are distributed over time.

Hope this helps ...

 

[Novica B]

Steve,
I have almost the same query.
I have 3 resources that are set up and I also have an Admin Schedule that
pulls all the resource allocations through. Whaen I view Resource Usage I get
all tasks grouped by resource name. To the right I get the hours assigned for
each project, What I want to show is the Gantt chart view of this. The
resources are actually pieces of equipment (Development Servers) that can be
used by multiple projects at once. So we need to see in a gantt chart where
they are being used.

Is this possible?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Novicia,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You can't have a Gantt chart of resources. Surely the Resource Usage view
should show you all you want? You could filter it for the particular
resource.

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on )

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP