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Resource Limits & Leveling

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Wed, 2007-03-28 20:53
Phillip Witherington
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Hi,

I have entered resources in my resource table with both normal and max limits. Also assigned resources to each activity.

When I level, activities are not delayed due to lack of available resources. P3 does not seem to use the resource limits to delay start of activities.

On the ’Level’ dialog box, the Project Leveling entries are greyed out.

Can anyone help with this problem?

thanks,
Phil
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Thu, 2007-03-29 10:54
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Rashid Iqbal
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For resource levelling there is no need to

1. Make the resources ’Driving’
2. No need for making the activities independent or meeting.

The above functions are only needed when we want the reosurces to use their own specific calenders and want the ’crunching and stretching’ of the activties.

The only thing which you would be missing is to include the resources in the levelling dialog box.

Rashid




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Thu, 2007-03-29 06:50
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Akin Adurosakin
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There are few things you need to do for P3 to reschedule for a future date, an activity whose resource is not immediately available.

In addition to defining the resource limits and designating the resource as driving, you also need to select independent or meeting as the activity type. These selections will make P3 to recognize that the resource Calendar should be used in scheduling the activity and not the base calendar.

You also need to define the resource availability using the resource calendar (go to ‘Data’>> ‘Resources’ >> ‘Calendars’).

In leveling, P3 uses the combination of all these parameter to reschedule an activity whose resource is not available.

In summary try these steps:
1. Define the resource and resource availability using the resource calendar (go to ‘Data’>> ‘Resources’ >> ‘Calendars’).
2. Defining the resource limits
3. Designating the resource as driving
4. Choose independent or meeting as the activity type (if you select task as activity type, the base calendar will be used when leveling)

I am optimistic it would work.

Akin Adurosakin
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Thu, 2007-03-29 04:39
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Mark Chapman
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Fro memory as I don’t use Resources that often, I think you have to define the resource as a driving resource. Is this the case?
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