Resource availability

[Kimberly]

We are using Project to schedule the departments machine hours to indicate
workload and availability. When a task is complete, marked as 100% complete,
how do you indicate the machine's new availability. It is not reducing the
scheduled the hours in the resource usage.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Set an "actual finish" which is equal to the date when the task completed.
The way you are doing it can result in having a finish date in the future
which is obviously not correct if the task is completed.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Jim Aksel]

In the resource usage view, try right clicking in the calendar side of the
view and select Remaining Availability. Is that what you wanted?
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[Kimberly]

I set up a column with "actual finish"; entered the date when the task
completed; some tasks' duration changed to "zero" hours; others the duration
time either decreased and some even increased. My result is the resource has
more hours allocated to it than before.

Any suggestions?

 

[Kimberly]

Thanks for responding Jim, but this doesn't work for us.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

In this case, you might want to go to the resource usage view and enter in
the actual work and remaining work.
Switch to resource view and then right click on the right hand side to add
additional fields that you can view.

-Jack Dahlgren