Project Resource Weekend Allocation

I have built up a large number of independant projects that are currently active in my department. Each was completely individual until this week when I decided I needed a single resource pool, which would allow me to easily see how my resources are
divided up or over allocated. However, one problem I have is that a large number of tasks are listed as e's, as in eday, eweek, etc. So any recource assigned to those tasks is automatically highlighted as over allocated. If I were to switch
the hours of that resource to a 24 hour schedule, it messes up the timelines I have established.
Is there any way that I can have exceptions, or turn off the indicators for weekend use, and only show up for when a resource is overallocated? Or would I need to go back and fix each timeline? I can do this going forward, but I don't want to
lose a lot of work already done.

Hi,
Is there a particular reason for using elapsed duration? This is typically used for example after painting a wall for the task where the painting is drying. This drying task is independant of any calendar, weekends or exceptions. You should just use elapsed
for specific reasons.
That being said, adding exceptions won't change anything for tasks with elapsed duration, as I just mentionned. A workaround for removing the oervallocation warning (red guy) would be to change the leveling option (resource ribbon) to month by month.
By default, it is on a daily basis, meaning that the warning will appear as soon as Project detects at least 1 day with an overallocation. Encreasing the granularity to a monthly basis, you'd need to have overallocation at the month level to have the warning.
It might help (or not).
In case it doesn't, I suggest to use standard durations.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

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Hi
The module Oracle Projects Resource Management deals only with human resources, employees, contingent workers, candidates.
This module is integrated with Oracle HRMS.
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Project Resource Calendars for onshore and offshore (different working hours)

Advice please.
As with many companies we use Project 2010 with onshore and offshore resources.
Facts are as follows:
Onshore resource – 09:00 – 17:00 – 35 hour week
Offshore resource – 08:00 – 18:00 – 40 hour week
These resources are in different time zones; however that element is not an issue.
The problem seems to be with resource calendars. Resource calendars are setup as per above and assigned to appropriate resources in EPM/Project Server 2010 - however could be local for same issue.
The problem is that work is reflected correctly in hours or days but not both.
So looking at Task usage table.
For example:
Typing in hours for Onshore and Offshore resources on any task is correct.
So 7 for onshore and 9 for offshore. However when you can the work view in options so that work is entered in days, its incorrect for offshore.
Same hours for both but incorrect days. Basically the resource calendar does not seem to have an impact.
The Plan default working times can be set to either schedule but either way one or the other type of resource is out.
For instance : Offshore resource 9 hours should equate to 1day. However it equates to 1.29 days.
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My assumption is as follows:
Set the Project default hours to 08:00 – 18:00 – 9 hour days, 40 hour week.
This allows offshore to work there hours as the project plan is effectively open for business.
Onshore resources should then be restricted to their resource calendar meaning that they only work 7 hours per day regardless of the plan indicating 9 hour days.
Hope that makes sense...
Any thoughts would be much appreciated…..
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Hi,
Everything you write is right, and your confusion only stems from the misunderstanding of how Project defined the "day" as a time unit.
Matter of fact, Project uses for its calculations only ONE time unit which is the MINUTE.
Of course, that implies the HOUR is a usable unit as well - an hour being 60 minutes isn't questioned by anyone.
OTOH, your post illustrateds tha a definition for day is not so obvious; Project's definition is that a day is always equal to an hour times the parameter "hours per day" in the options. So what a day is, is totally independent from any calendar, Project,
Resource or Task calendar. Within that definition the values you see are "right".
But the good news is that your other assumption,quote:
Onshore resources should then be restricted to their resource calendar meaning that they only work 7 hours per day regardless of the plan indicating 9 hour days.
That is true. Work is planned according to available working time in the appropriate calendar.
My advice is to not use the day as planning unit in any view: the hour will better allow to understand how Project is planning the tasks.
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Resource Assignment without Project Resource Management Module

Hi Dina,
We are implementing Oracle projects for one of our customers. The customer does not want to implement Project Resource Management module. Is it possible to assign resources to a project or create a new requirement using the Resources tab in Project screen (HTML page) without implementing the Project Resource Management module. Pls let us know.
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Edited by: user12209290 on Nov 18, 2011 9:30 AM

Hi
With Project Management you can assign resources to the work plan. Resources might be named people or generic resource by job.
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Oracle Exadata X4, trying to allocate IORM through OEM 12c.
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I have configured IORM from the command line, cellcli, a number of times but haven't used OEM to set it up. IORM plans are setup on the Exadata storage cells and unlike its counterpart, DBRM, it manages workloads across databases not internal to a single database.
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Which configuration to include another project resource ?

What configuration should I do in order that a project resource uses another's
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Example:
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You would need to configure both projects to have the same "HTML Root" directory in their project settings.
In JDev, we have so far used the concept of each project representing a separate WAR structure, so by default projects have separate "HTML Root" directories. Since jsp:include operations and jsp:forward operations are not allowed to cross a WAR file boundary (per JSP 1.2 spec, section JSP.2.2.1), the only way to have jsp:forward and jsp:include to work is to put the two JSPs in the same WAR structure. In JDev this means having both JSPs in the same project, or having the two projects share the same HTML Root directory.

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I am building a project file using MS Project 2013 for a bidding purpose.
I cannot assign tasks without holidays. For that reason, total number of days on the 'project summary' and on the right side (bar chart's days) are not the same.
On the Bar chart, it shows the project is 360 days long, but on the left Task list (project summary), it shows 257 days.
I have to show 360 days in both side.
How can I do that, would you please tell me?

Not sure to fully understand your concern. By default a standard cwlendar is applied to your project, inckuding weekend's days as non-working days. Evenif the Gantt chart bars don't show weekend with a different formatting than the workin days, it take it
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In conclusion, both side (tasks grid and Gantt chart) manage tasks duration the same way, using the project calendar.
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I have a new resource pool which I have created, im very new to MS Project so I may have set this up wrong im not too sure as I am learning from reading articles on google.
So my resource pool has 12 fabricators on it – working 8am – 4.30pm but I have put the max units at 75%, totalling to 900%, ive input all absences that I know of in the future by reducing the percentage of work, 2 people off I have reduced it to 750% for
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Kath

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We are planning to use PJRs discoverer reports. Is it mandatory to use PJI for the same?
Also what is the exact difference in new and old utilizaiton models?
It will be great f you can point me to some proper docs on this one.
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After applying patch 18308493 (note 1632924.1) I was able to assign a candidate to a requirement. The LOV in the search candidate form now shows people and the organizations. In HR the organizations marked as Project Expenditure/Event Organizations need the Realted Organization populated with the orgs Operating Unit and the Resource Default with the global calendar (click Others).
Using PA jobs and HR jobs does work when using the PA job mapping.
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Master Project Resources

Hi,
I have a master project, in that I have added some 25 resources.
When I try to add those resources in Resource Names field in MS Project, that field is empty(I do not see any resources).
Why is it so?
K.Gokulraj

Hi,
Are you using Project Server with an Enterprise resource pool? Or a shared resource file?
The resources must be created in one of the sub-projects, meaning that if you create a task in another sub-project or even if the master plan directly, you might not see it. In the resource sheet, insert the "project" column to see which project
has which resources.
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Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

Master Project / Resource Pool

We currently have a master project schedule that shows all our current on going projects in one schedule but unfortantely when we try to run a Visual Report for Resource Usage, it is taking some people and multiply their hours.
So say "Dave" was scheduled for 100 hours total across all projects, when we run the report it is now making him show that he is scheduled for 300 hours.
We have a resource pool and all our PM's pull from this.
Can you please help us in trying to figure out why, this report is not working correctly.
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So, my first suspect is a file corruption. To fix break all the links then re-create master and pool (with new blank projects). Ideally use master files where projects are inserted with no link. This consolidates resources as well. I use a recorded macro
to re-create a master when needed.
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Project Resource Rates

Hello
we're using EPM 2010 and soon 2013 to manage our clients' projects.
we are using a centralised resource pool and people will enter Timesheet for project tracking.
one particularity is that every project is having a specific agreement on a rate for resources.
I know that we have 5 rate tables in EPM but I see this as a limitation because someone in his life will surely be assigned to more than 5 project and starting to play with talbles AND effective dates leads to management nightmares.
so my question is : do you see a way we can edit the resource rate per project?
do you see any other alternative for our use case?
regards
Jérome

Hello Jerome,
I've written a utility that allows you to define ratecards externally to your project, and then apply them as and when required. So say you had a rate card per customer, you could build that ratecard once, and then use the ratecard import utility to apply
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It's not open source, but it is freely available within our MS Project add-on. See the middle section of this webpage ("Rate Card Utilities") for a description:
http://www.eversight.co.uk/#!dataimport/cuqb
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Project resources with different working weeks

Hi All,
I have a project with resources in different locations (Australia and the Middle East) who have different work weeks.
Australia (Monday-Friday)
Middle East (Sunday-Thursday)
Basically, common work week is Monday-Thursday, while the Australian resources do not work Sat/Sun, and the Middle East resources do not work Fri/Sat.
I need to be able to schedule work for both resources, but I can't find a way to allocate work weeks in this way as it appears that work weeks is a global setting. Is there a way around this with holidays that i'm not seeing? Anyone have a solution to this,
I can't be the first person to run a project in this manner.
Help very greatly appreciated,
Ryan

RyanBaker --
This is a really excellent question, by the way, because it gets at the heart of how Microsoft Project really works. Remember that Microsoft Project is a scheduling tool. You give it the correctly scheduling information and it will figure out
the correct schedule for every task in the project.
To resolve your situation, begin by creating two new Base Calendars: an Australian calendar and a Middle East calendar. On the Australian calendar, set the work week to Monday - Friday. For the Middle East Calendar, set the work week to
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Next, assign the correct Base Calendar to each resource in the project. For resources from Australia, set the Australia calendar as their Base Calendar. For resources in the Middle East, set the Middle East calendar as their Base Calendar. This
will ensure that Microsoft Project schedules tasks correct when you assign resources to them.
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MS Project Resource question

Hello,
In MS Project i'd like to add resources to tasks, but this results in some problems
For example i have 1 person (Daan) scheduled on a task for 5%.
But i the resourcesheet MS project has scheduled him 40 hours a week for the first task.
Why does MS project schedule him for 40 hours in stead of the 2 hours a week (5%) i filled in?
With kind regards,
Erwin

Hi,
Which version of MS Project are you using? Is it connected to Project Server or standalone? Can you detail the exact sequence to reproduce the issue? Or screenshots?
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