CProjects Resource Management fails

Question

We have a resource-management requirement which cProjects does not seem to satisfy. Your inputs...
In our business scenario:
- A Project Role may have a number of tasks to perform.
- The same role may work on the same task across a number of time periods - say 5 days in January, another 3 days in Feb, 6 days in Apr. and so on.
How can we ensure that the resource is booked only for those dates when he is assigned to the tasks?
Staffing drives the resource availability, not the resource-task assignment. We can only staff a resource for an extended period of time, say Jan to Apr, for say, 14 days. But this does not help in our case because this only determines floating booking (14 days across 4 months), not the fixed booking for the days when he is actually assigned to the task(s).
Copy Staffing does not help our case because, when we use this, the system copies the entire set of tasks already assigned to the resource (including the ones which he need work more than once)
Nor does the system allow to staff the same role with the same resource more than once (except by "Copy Staffing", which does not solve the case).
Is there any way we can break the deadlock?

Answer 1

Hi.
It is possible to split the role-task assignment into multiple rows with different start- and finnish dates  in the "Tasks Assigned to Selected Project Role Screen"
Not so nice to maintain but it could perhaps be way forward?
Regards / Anders
Ps.
By doing this you will also get the cost planning split according to the dates used.