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From: Almoje on 18 May 2010 03:01 I am using MSP2007 for several projects en use a resource planning. The problem I have is that 1) the people have 8 hour working days but are not working 8 hours on the project. I can simply change the working time per person (it is different per group) but when I ad vacation as a task (next problem) MSP is not using the 8 hours but the adjusted time. This means that the vacation days are shorter than actual. 2) how can I use the non working time and make it visible in the Gantt Chard, like individual vacation and the non project time per day. 3) when adding vacation in the resource information - change working time, a task will not be split during the vacation time. Is this possible? the idea is to easily show the resource work load and availability per day thank you
From: Rod Gill on 18 May 2010 03:34 Hi, Simplest is to leave calendars and hours per day set to 8h/day. Then set max units for each Resource to the average hours per day/week that they work on all projects (if using project server) or average hours per day they should work on your project (if not using Project Server). -- Rod Gill Microsoft MVP for Project - http://www.project-systems.co.nz Author of the only book on Project VBA, see: http://www.projectvbabook.com "Almoje" <Almoje(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:94D186F7-74FD-4F81-90ED-745A0005CA06(a)microsoft.com... > I am using MSP2007 for several projects en use a resource planning. The > problem I have is that > 1) the people have 8 hour working days but are not working 8 hours on the > project. I can simply change the working time per person (it is different > per > group) but when I ad vacation as a task (next problem) MSP is not using > the 8 > hours but the adjusted time. This means that the vacation days are shorter > than actual. > 2) how can I use the non working time and make it visible in the Gantt > Chard, like individual vacation and the non project time per day. > 3) when adding vacation in the resource information - change working time, > a > task will not be split during the vacation time. Is this possible? > > the idea is to easily show the resource work load and availability per day > > thank you > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 5122 (20100517) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5122 (20100517) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
From: Jan De Messemaeker on 18 May 2010 04:55 Hi Almoje, First question - simple anwer. Keep an 8 hr day calendar in the project and assign that one as a task calendar to the vacation tasks, with the option "Scheduling ignores resource calendars" Second question - Only by using absence tasks as you suggest. Third question - Gantt Chart indeed does not show split. Want to look at resoruce usage and availability look at Resource Usage view; a task wiew will not show that appropriately. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional +32 495 300 620 For availability check: http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf "Almoje" <Almoje(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:94D186F7-74FD-4F81-90ED-745A0005CA06(a)microsoft.com... >I am using MSP2007 for several projects en use a resource planning. The > problem I have is that > 1) the people have 8 hour working days but are not working 8 hours on the > project. I can simply change the working time per person (it is different > per > group) but when I ad vacation as a task (next problem) MSP is not using > the 8 > hours but the adjusted time. This means that the vacation days are shorter > than actual. > 2) how can I use the non working time and make it visible in the Gantt > Chard, like individual vacation and the non project time per day. > 3) when adding vacation in the resource information - change working time, > a > task will not be split during the vacation time. Is this possible? > > the idea is to easily show the resource work load and availability per day > > thank you
From: "Steve House" sjhouse at hotmail dot on 18 May 2010 10:06 1: IMHO, vacation should not represented as tasks in the schedule assigned to the resources. A task is resources working - vacations are resources not working, by definition. Tasks drive the project forward towards completion, vacations retard the project progress and cause its completion to happen later. Indeed tasks and vacations are truly the complete opposite of each other. The correct way to represent vacations is to mark the vacation days off as non-working in each individual resource calendar. That way any tasks assigned to the resource that would have otherwise fallen during their vacation time will be deferred until they return to work. 2: Why do you need to see the non-working time for individuals in the Gantt chart? The Gantt is a schedule of what work is to be done and when, not a chart of who is available when. Don't try to kludge it into doing something it's not designed to do - just because it's a calendar display doesn't mean it's a suitable basis for all kinds of calendar displays. 3: Vacation non-working time occuring in the middle of a more extensive task does cause the Gantt bar to extend in length - it simply does not show up as a dotted line gap in the middle, instead it still shows as solid bar. But the bar is drawn properly from the beginning date of the task to the date when it is expected to finish allowing for the vacation interuption. You'll note that while the bar length, thus its elapsed time, shows the total including both working time and vacation, the duration number displayed for the task only includes the non-vacation days, ie adding a weeks vacation for the resource in the middle of a 10 day task he's assigned to causes the task elapsed time to become 21 days yet its duration remains 10 days since the vacation time isn't counted in the duration. It's like the weekends - the bar is drawn continuously through the days even though work ceases on the weekend and those days are not counted in the duration. -- Steve House MS Project Trainer & Consultant "Almoje" <Almoje(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:94D186F7-74FD-4F81-90ED-745A0005CA06(a)microsoft.com... >I am using MSP2007 for several projects en use a resource planning. The > problem I have is that > 1) the people have 8 hour working days but are not working 8 hours on the > project. I can simply change the working time per person (it is different > per > group) but when I ad vacation as a task (next problem) MSP is not using > the 8 > hours but the adjusted time. This means that the vacation days are shorter > than actual. > 2) how can I use the non working time and make it visible in the Gantt > Chard, like individual vacation and the non project time per day. > 3) when adding vacation in the resource information - change working time, > a > task will not be split during the vacation time. Is this possible? > > the idea is to easily show the resource work load and availability per day > > thank you
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