Understand Availability

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I'm confused as to what the Availabilty in PWA is showing me when I
look at a resource. I am expecting, if a resource has 8 hours of work
assigned in a typical 8 hour working day, that their availabilty would
be 0. However, I keep seeing it as 8 hours still.

The steps I'm following in PWA are:

Click resources
Select a resource that I know is scheduled for tasks on a project and
choose view availabilty
Choose the Remaining Availabilty view.

Now the graph appears to be correct, so that makes sense. What I'm not

getting is that in the Details section below, if I expand the resource
so I can see their projects, I see an entry called Availabilty, which
looks the same as the other projects. This entry has 8 hours
availabilty for every day of the week, even when the resource has work
scheduled. The work line is always zero and the availabilty line is
always 8 (zero on the weekends).

This makes the Total at the bottom look incorrect, as it shows the
resource working an 8 hour day on a task in a project, but still having

8 hours of availabilty.

I understand that there is Availability and Remaining Availability in
Project. I just don't understand why on this view it continues to show
Availabilty as 8 hours when that person has 8 hours of work assigned to
them. It would seem to me that in order to calculate Remaining
Availabilty that the Availabilty column would have to read less than 8,
but it does not.

Any help on what is going on? Seems like things are out of sync to me.


Thanks!!


Eric

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Eric --

Availability is the amount of time that a resource is able to perform
project work regardless of any tasks to which the resource is assigned. You
are thinking about Remaining Availability, which is the amount of time
remaining each day AFTER the resource is assigned to tasks across all
projects. Hope this helps.