Understanding Availabilty in PWA

[uott2know]

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.

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

Thanks!!

Eric

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Eric,

Try posting on the server newsgroup as this one is closing down. Please see
FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful
Project information can be seen at this web
address:http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm .

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

There's availability, and then there's remaining availability.