Resource Availability Never Changes in Portfolio Analyzer

[Charles Simpson]

Anyone know why the "availability" field under "Totals" in Portfolio Analyzer
never changes? All of our resources seem to have the exact same availability
(1,875 hours/year) even if they are scheduled for work or have reported
actuals. Seems like this should reduce their availability.

Example:

Resource Work Actual Work Availability
Charles Simpson 125.5h 68.25h 1,875h
Mike Lambert 1,225.1h 768.5h 1,875h

Any ideas?

We are running Project Server 2003 with SP1

Charles L. Simpson

 

[Ellen Lehnert, PMP]

The availability you are looking at is a reflection of the availabilty based
on their calendar. It is not doing a calculation of work - availability. If
you would like that number, add a calculated field to the OLAP view.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Charles and Ellen --

I wanted to confirm Ellen's excellent answer, and refer you to the following
FAQ for how to create a Remaining Availability custom calculation in a
Portfolio Analyzer view:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/InsertRemainingAvailability.htm

Hope this helps.

 

[Charles Simpson]

Thanks Dale!

Charles and Ellen --

I wanted to confirm Ellen's excellent answer, and refer you to the following
FAQ for how to create a Remaining Availability custom calculation in a
Portfolio Analyzer view:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/InsertRemainingAvailability.htm

Hope this helps.