Resource Percentage In Task Information Box

[Matt]

I am trying to understand why and how the resource percentage changes..I put
a task for fix duration effort driven with a start date of 6/14 and date of
6/27. we are using our calendar (omits weekends) and I have scheduled this
task for 10 day duration with a dead line on 6/27 and a start no earlier then
6/14 date. I schedule the resource for 50% of his time ..total task should
be 40 hrs which equates to 4 hrs a day for 10 days. I also have effort
driven checked and estimated time unchecked. I added time for the task as
follows : 6/14 - 10 hrs, 6/15 - 10 hrs - 6/18 - 10 hrs, 6/19 - 5 hrs and 6/20
- 3 hrs which is a total of 38 hrs applied to a 40 hr task. When I do the
update from PWA it changes the reource percentage to 125 % and changes the
hrs from 4 hrs per day to .4 for the remaing 5 workdays. which ends on 6/27.
I would have thought that the resource percentage would have decreased since
the hrs ar less then the original hrs assigned..can you please provide some
guidence as to why this happens...I appreciate your help...thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

10 hrs a day=125%. The assignment % takes the highest value.
2 hrs remaining work but you specify fixed duration so these 2 hrs must be
spread ove the remaining duration.
IMHO 5 times .4 is indeed 2.
HTH
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[Matt]

Thanks for responding...does Project always take the highest precentage
against a given day and task and retain that number...? I could see it
increasing on 6/14 since the resource record actual hrs of 10 which is 125%
...but remember he was only scheduled to do 4 hrs that day since I had him as
a resource at 50%. That part that confuses us even more is that you are
coreect...4 X 5 is 2 hrs which was the total remaing hrs due. Why does the
resource percent stay at 125%. ?? Thanks again for your help.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Because it is the highest, as I said.