First I would change the 100% to 1 as we are talking a resource of which it is hard to cut in half. Since most tasks are duration driven. anyway you can change this in the project options to Decimal. Then for a task that needs 4 special welders you only need to indicate 4. If you are doing your maintenance work like ours then you would have only a single resource per task. It takes a little more time but makes a better schedule for each trade as you can filter for each and they have their own. Also as Alexandre points out you can also take the task to the person but if there is a large number of resources as well as tasks this may be hard to do.
There are a number of different views like the resource usage view were the total number of resources special can be viewed. If need you can always copy and paste into excel and do some manpower graphs
First I would change the 100% to 1 as we are talking a resource of which it is hard to cut in half. Since most tasks are duration driven. anyway you can change this in the project options to Decimal. Then for a task that needs 4 special welders you only need to indicate 4. If you are doing your maintenance work like ours then you would have only a single resource per task. It takes a little more time but makes a better schedule for each trade as you can filter for each and they have their own. Also as Alexandre points out you can also take the task to the person but if there is a large number of resources as well as tasks this may be hard to do.
There are a number of different views like the resource usage view were the total number of resources special can be viewed. If need you can always copy and paste into excel and do some manpower graphs
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Submitted by Alexandre Faul… on Thu, 2012-08-30 09:46
you could do even better: double-click the resource name in the resource sheet, and change the time-distributed availability of the resource to fit with the amount of work the resource will have to achieve
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23 years 4 monthsHi Dale First I would change
Hi Dale
First I would change the 100% to 1 as we are talking a resource of which it is hard to cut in half. Since most tasks are duration driven. anyway you can change this in the project options to Decimal. Then for a task that needs 4 special welders you only need to indicate 4. If you are doing your maintenance work like ours then you would have only a single resource per task. It takes a little more time but makes a better schedule for each trade as you can filter for each and they have their own. Also as Alexandre points out you can also take the task to the person but if there is a large number of resources as well as tasks this may be hard to do.
There are a number of different views like the resource usage view were the total number of resources special can be viewed. If need you can always copy and paste into excel and do some manpower graphs
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23 years 4 monthsHi Dale First I would change
Hi Dale
First I would change the 100% to 1 as we are talking a resource of which it is hard to cut in half. Since most tasks are duration driven. anyway you can change this in the project options to Decimal. Then for a task that needs 4 special welders you only need to indicate 4. If you are doing your maintenance work like ours then you would have only a single resource per task. It takes a little more time but makes a better schedule for each trade as you can filter for each and they have their own. Also as Alexandre points out you can also take the task to the person but if there is a large number of resources as well as tasks this may be hard to do.
There are a number of different views like the resource usage view were the total number of resources special can be viewed. If need you can always copy and paste into excel and do some manpower graphs
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22 years 9 monthsHi Dale,you are on the right
Hi Dale,
you are on the right track
you could do even better: double-click the resource name in the resource sheet, and change the time-distributed availability of the resource to fit with the amount of work the resource will have to achieve
Alexandre