Re: changing calender

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You have to make a global choice - you either track and assign your engineers as two aggregate names, "Design Engineers - Morning Shift" and "Design Engineers - Afternoon Shift," with appropriate maximum assignment units reflecting number of engineers in each group, or you track the engineers as individual people. If you choose the former, an individual must NOT be included in both groups - if you have a total of 9 engineers, you might have 4 in the morning group and 5 in the afternoon group but there can't be any overlap - each engineer is included in the count of one or the other group but none of them can be counted in both. Similarly, if you list "Joe Engineer" as an individual you cannot also include him in the count of resources in either of those aggregates. When you assign them to the task you need to decide how many out of each group to assign - if you assign from only one group, the task will only be scheduled during the time that group is working.

You should never, ever, assign resources to summary tasks - summaries are simply roll-ups of the subtasks. All resource assignments should on the detail activity performance tasks only.

If you want two guys to be working on a certain task in the morning and three on the same task in the afternoon, you would have two resource names listed on the , "Morning Engineers - 200%" and "Afternoon Engineers - 300%", you cannot just list "Engineers - 500%."
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"karishma" <karishma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44A12CD9-0EA4-4658-BFAF-F9B6EC4F9998@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi

thanks. so do you mean that i have to enter design engineer as a resource
name twice and then assignment units as 400% for one and 500% for the other?

but i have those 9 design engineers working for the 1st summary task and
other 9 for the 2nd summary task. so do i have to keep 900% for the 1st and
900% for the 2nd?

and what if same subtask is assigned to 3 design engineers?

thanks for your help.


"Rod Gill" wrote:

Yes you need a different calendar for pm shift. You assign calendars to
individual resources so you need an engineers group for am and one for pm at
450% each (or 400 and 500)

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com



"karishma" <karishma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FB6E8F2F-1BB1-44CF-A031-623A814D3FED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> hi
>
> Thanks for your answer, but still confused.
>
> i have kept the default standard calender as it is and created an
> additional
> calender as"morning shift" calender with timiings 5am to 1:30 pm.
>
> now from a resource sheet view i hahe changed the asiignment units as > 900%
> as there are 9 engineers are workiing on different subtasks of the same
> summary tasks. now to assign a morning shift claender to them,
> resource informarion menu--working time tab- claender (morning shift).
>
> but it has reduced the duraiton for all subtasks. so what can be the
> problem?
>
> again for the other summary task i want to assign a design engineers > group
> to perform all subtasks. but the resources under this group are going > to
> work
> in noon shift and are different from the previous one. so do i have to
> create a "pm shift" calender? and if yes how do i assign different
> calenders
> to the same group (design engineers)?
>
> hope it is not confusing to you
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
> "Rod Gill" wrote:
>
>> HI,
>>
>> Create one calendar for each shift. View the Resource sheet and set >> the
>> Base
>> calendar for all morning shift people to the morning base calendar. >> Ditto
>> for pm staff.
>>
>> This won't change durations, but if the calendars are not 8h/d then >> the
>> dates will change.
>>
>> -- >>
>> Rod Gill
>> Microsoft MVP for Project
>>
>> Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
>> http://www.projectvbabook.com
>>
>>
>>
>> "karishma" <karishma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:A598D6F3-3929-45C1-B196-8AEB2C8F0B94@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >i am working on MSP 2003. i have prepared my planning with standard
>> >calender
>> > and default timimgs. but now i would like to change the hours per >> > day
>> > and
>> > hrs. pre week. there are around 40 resurces working on the project. >> > i
>> > want
>> > 20
>> > of them to work in morning shift and other 20 to work in noon shift.
>> >
>> > so do i have to change calender to 24-hrs shift? do i have to enter
>> > nondefault time as 5am to 1:30 pm and 2pm to 10:30 pm, both with 1 >> > our
>> > break.
>> > so for this i have man-hrs as 40resources*16 hrs=640hrs work. (am i
>> > correct
>> > or have i some misinterpritation?
>> >
>> > does it going to change the durations for the tasks?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > help will be appreciated
>> >
>>
>>



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