Resource Leveling - How to find overallocated resources ?

[Aditya]

Hi all,

I am preparing MSProject addon, I am using C#,VS2008 and Office runtime 3.0.
I need to level overallocated resources as part of my project.

I am getting problems with MSProject levelnow. It has its own limitations
and it is not useful for me. I want to prepare my own method to level the
resources.

To do this I am using ActiveProject.Resources collection->
Resource.Overallocated property. Using this info i am tracing all the tasks
with that resource name to collect the tasks; after that I am leveling the
tasks using FS link.

Now my request is "Is there any way to find exactly overallocated resource,
i.e. we have 3 tasks 1,2,3 with resource A. 1 and 3 are started on same time,
but 2 starting some other time. I need to find exactly 1 and 3 to level".

I have one more question related to previous one. In my project i am using 2
resources but in resource sheet it is showing more than that. I need to find
resources which i am using in my project.

Thanks,

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

First, i don't understnd why you want to program your own leveling that will
at best do a small part of the function of project's leveling (as you may
guess, I do like leveling and yes, most of the time I can live wuith its
limitations).
This being said, you will have to do what leveling does, that is to
investigate the overallocations time slice by time slice. Look up
assignment.timescaledata method to produce the nescessary timescale values.

Hope this helps,

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