Resource utilization.. Need expert idea

M

Mohan

I have created an Access DB for tracking projects. THis is a moderately
complex database. This post can also be in table design group.
Among many table, I have a table for liking the users and project (users
assigned to projects). This will tell which users are working on which
projects.

Not everyone works on the project on a full-time baisis. The project
manager will specify what percentage of each user's time (or resource's time)
are utilized in each project.

Here is what I need.
a) I need to have a talbe for traking the percent utilization of resources
on the project. I can use the already existing table (which I described
above) to track this. I just need to add more fields.

THe problem is how do I go about capturing this data? I also need to report
the percent utilzation of each resources on the project for each month
Option1: Desing a screen to capture the start_date, end_date and percent
utilization for that period keyed by the PM. The problem with this approach
is: I cannot figure out a way to calculate the percent utlization for the
month that are falling in between the start_date and end_date

For eg: if start_dt = 01/15/2007, end_dt = 06/20/2007, percent_util = 0.25
Howe do I report theat percent_util for Jan-07 = 0.25 , Feb-07 = 0.25, ....
al the way to Jun-07 = 0.25

Option2: Instead of entring start_date & end_date, I could desing the
screen such that the PM enters the month & year
I tried this with the drop down menu of all 12 months (Jan - Dec) (sotred in
a field) and the year in a different field. I have having trouble with
converting the 'Jan' text and the 2007 to a date format.

b) I also need to produce a line chart with the timeline on the X-Axis,
percent_util on the y-axis and differnt lines for each resources inside the
grap.

c) Similar graph presentd in a different way: For each users, I need a bar
chart with timeline on the x-axis, percent_util on the y-axis and the project
inside the graph ==> This will tell what percent of time is used in which
projects for the given month

Any ideas or reference would be appreciated.

Thanks
 

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