Preventing Leveling from moving meeting participants

[Engineer_Charlie]

Hi...

I'm a relative neophyte to MSP and am trying to use it to schedule several
projects with a Shared Resource file. The problem I'm encountering is that
we sometimes have group meetings involving numerous people/resources.
Obviously, they must all meet together at the same time, but when they meet
is flexible. I have Automatic Leveling "on", and some of the participants
are moved to a different date. I tried turning off Effort Driven, and tried
setting Task Priority to 1000. It seems like this should be a very basic
thing to do so I'm probably just overlooking something simple, but it's
driving me nuts! Can someone give me some helpful direction?

Many thanks!

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Charlie,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Setting Priority at 1000 is the way to go. When you level, make sure that
splits are allowed.

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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
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[Dave]

Aside from turning automatic levelling off and making the priority 1000
for your tasks as already suggested, you might want to make sure that
"Levelling can adjust individual assignments on a task" is not selected.

 

[Engineer_Charlie]

Thanks to you all! I'm going to try all the advice and read the links
provided.

I already discovered that automatic leveling is not such a good idea... I
had it on while changing INCREASING some resource allocations (which should
have shortened the project time); instead, it added a year! I turned it off,
cleared the leveling, then used "Level Now" and it was back in the expected
area.

Thanks again for the quick and useful replies...