Resource Profile

Niek;

Reference post #11.  I think your suggestion works with the caveat that non-filtered resources may appear as overallocations, but if you see 'green' bars then you have your filtered resources, or so it appears.

In my case (P6 8.2), I wanted to see the Resource Usage for only the filtered activities (WBS code, but it could have been anything) to manually level.  Before using your hint, I would see resource usage for the entire project, not just the filtered activities.

It works best for me when only looking at "Budgeted" hours.  Using "Early" hours provided extraneous data.

It seems to be working, thanks.

Thanks Rashid,



Problem solved.



Regards,

Rashid,



Can you please explain how you solved this problem.



I have spoken to the primavera help desk and they informed me that this couldn’t be done.



Regards.

Good to hear Rashid!



With release 5.0 you will also be able to see the over-allocated part of the resource profile, as part of the filtered profile, even when the load is below the threshold as a result of that filter; you should see it, because it’s really neat!



Cheers,



Niek.

There is no reason why the resource allocation profile should not work in combination with filters. In fact, the intersection between activities and resources (i.e. assignments) should be sliced from both angles and not just resources.



It does work properly if you deselect "Show Overallocation" and stick to "Remaining Early". It should however also work with over-allocations and Primavera is currently investigating that problem.



I’ll keep you posted.



Niek.

Rashid



You will not get histograms in the Resource Usage Profile based on filtered activities because this profile does not do that. Some alternatives are using Activity Usage Profile, Resource Assignment view (and copying usage spreadsheet data to Excel for graphing) or you could write a report and output to a text file then import this into Excel for graphing.



However, if you do manage to find a way to get what you are after I think a lot of people would be interested.



Regards



KB

I’ll be happy to take a look Rashid but I would also recommend you to call the Primavera help desk. They may have a simple solution for what we are both overlooking.



Cheers,



Niek.

Rashid,



It took me a while to figure this one out, and I hope I’ll be able to explain the problem.



If you go to the Resource Usage Profile, it will show "Open Projects Only". This is the "Resource Analysis" setting under "User Preferences" and not necessarily meaning that you have selected to view the open projects only. (Yes, I agree, this is very confusing.)



If you click on "Open Projects Only" it will probably show that "Show All Projects" is still active. Deselect this option and you will get what you want.



Regards,



Niek.

Instead of viewing the Resource Usage Profile, can you see what you want using the Activity Usage Profile? This will show a histogram (or curves) based on the filtered activities regardless of the resources used.



Regards



KB

Rashid,



The thing you want to take a look at is "stacked histogram" because that will allow to group resources and display them in one histogram.



If you want see histograms of the filtered activities only you should select "open projects only".



Hope this helps,



Niek.