Re: Resource Availability Setting vs. Leveling

From: Jan De Messemaeker (jandemes)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:26:29 +0100

Hi Michael,

You gave the answer yourself: give them a calendar that covers 50% of the
time (e.g. morning only)
HTH 

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"michael" <michael@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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> I'm having a bit of trouble using the Resource Availability setting for
> personnel in a project.  I have people who will be available 100% then 50%
of
> the time.  I set the parameters for each person then leveled my project.
Any
> tasks that were set to resource usage of 100% were not scheduled while the
> person was at 50% on the schedule.  If I make the person available only
50%
> of the time using their calendar it levels just fine.
>
> It does appear that if I change the resource usage on the task from 100%
to
> 50% it will level properly.  however, that sort of defeats the purpose
since
> I would like Project to figure what tasks can be done during the time the
> people will be 50%.
>
> Is there a way to set their availability to 50% and have the tasks
schedule
> properly without having to change the settings on the task?

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