Sharing Enterprise Resources Between Projects

[MartinR]

Sorry to re-post this but it seems like a simple question
and a fairly straightforward bit of functionality that I'd
have though Project Server could do standing on its head.
Posted it a month ago and have had no replies.

In project server 2003 is their any way to set the
proportion of an individual resource allocated to a
specific project. i.e. to put 40% of a resource into
project A and 60% into project B without the project
manager having to set the percentages on a task by task
basis, therefore allowing him to view a resource's
availability within his own project's allowance

Thanks in advance
Martin

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Martin --

No, there is no way to assign the resource to a certain Units value for the
entire plan. Sorry about that. Your project managers will need to do this
on a task by task basis in each plan. Hope this helps.

 

[MartinR]

Thanks for responding Dale. This seems a pretty sun of the mill bit of
functionality. Are their plans for its inclusion that you know of? If not
is there a forum to raise it for consideration?

Martin

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Martin --

Send you wish to:

(e-mail address removed)

Include the word Project in the subject of the message. Hope this helps.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Martin:

I'll have to disagree with my partner on this one. The functionality is
there to do what you ask. After you build your team, you can switch to the
resource sheet view and change the max percentage. The system warns you that
this change will only persist for your current session. If you've got your
tasks ready for assignments, once you change the max units, the resource
will be assigned at that unit percentage for all assignments you make
during that session. That means the next time you want to make additional
assignments using the resource in this way, you'll need to go to the
resource sheet and temporarily set the max units all over again, but the
system retains the assignments at the max units at which they were made.
These are not overwritten.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the books on Project Server"
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

For Project Server FAQs visit
http://www.projectserverexperts.com

For Project FAQs visit
http://www.mvps.org/project

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[MartinR]

Thanks for that Gary, that's a useful workaround, glad I checked back !

Martin

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

I don't see this as a work-around, more a works-as-designed. A work-around
is something like storing the max percentages for your particular plan in a
local custom field, so that you can restore them quickly, rather than going
down the list and setting them individually for each session. Now that's a
work-around.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the books on Project Server"
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

For Project Server FAQs visit
http://www.projectserverexperts.com

For Project FAQs visit
http://www.mvps.org/project

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