Resource Allocation/Week

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Usage

Use this window to manually spread and verify it per week. The load hours per week have to be manually entered into the table and the result is immediately shown in the graph.

The window shows one single resource row consumption compared to the total consumption (by other activities) between activity start and end date. If the activity starts or ends in the middle of a week only the part of the week within the activity period is shown.

The information displayed is the resource usage of all the activities, spread across all the weeks available, according to the calendar for the resource group. You can scroll through the entire activity period and view the resource allocation changes. This is useful to identify over allocated resources as you add resource connections to your project.

The bar shown for each week is the total usage allocated for the work week on the X-axis, assuming an even spread in usage across the activity dates in the week. The Hours portion of the bar is the usage based on the resource connection of the selected activity, and the Other Hours portion is the usage of all the other activities.

The normal capacity limit defined for each week for the resource group is displayed as a line in the graph. This shows you how your planned resource usage relates to available resources.

Activity Diagrams

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Activities

Spread and Verify Resource Allocation