leveling to delete days

[ellebelle]

I would like to use Leveling (or similar) to delete work days from a lower
priority task when there is an overallocation. ie. The start Date and End
Date are fixed but the Work changes to reolve the conflict.

Is this possible?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Sorry but there is no function in the Scheduling engine that will do that.
Leveling will only delay work if necessary to resolve overallocations, never
change work or units.
HTH

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[Steve House]

The start and end dates of a task are generally a consequence of the amount
of work that is required in order to complete the deliverable, not the other
way around. The way you describe it, the start and end dates are fixed in
stone and it doesn't matter how much or how little actual productive output
needs to be achieved between them. I'm not saying this is impossible but it
is incredibly rare.

 

[ellebelle]

the start and end dates are fixed. If the work is longer than their
availiblity then I have to reconcile that by putting somebody else on the job
as a separate task. I track this by making sure my overall total of work days
matches what I expect it to take.

do you know of a macro that could run to do this for me?

 

[Steve House]

No, leveling doesn't do that. All leveling does is slide a task in the
schedule, delaying it until it's clear of the higher priority task.

Remember Project is designed to calculate for you the task start and end
dates you can have, not merely document the dates you want.