Issues in Workforce Planning

Dear Friends,
I am facing following isues in workforce planning.
1) I am not able to assign team maintained at WBSE level in assigned activities.Though the manpower maintained at Work Center is easily asigned.
2) The capacity requirement for activity as well as resource in not getting distributed, though I am using Distribution key to distribute work equally both at activity & work center level.
3) Last, once a resource has been assigned to a particular activity for a particular period, the system is still allowing allotment of same resorces to other activities during same period.
Please provide your valuable inputs.
Regards,
Seemant

Thanks for response.
We are maintaining WBSE team for the same WB SE to which network activity is assigned. The requirement for having a team at WBSE as well as Work Centre arises because, as per the business scenario the project may utilize resources other than that on Work Centre.
I have done all required settings & marked all relevant indicators.
Yes in I am using SAP020 Distribution Key.
For the third point that I mentioned (that you say to be standard system behaviour) I would explain again.
Once I have loaded a particular resource with work form a particular project, logically the system shall block that resource for that particular time frame (within which it is loaded). Are you saying this is standard system behaviour?
Thanks,
Seemant

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