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MS-Project 2019 Planning Employees Combined with Machines
There are a few different ways to handle this scenario. The most straightforward is to break the task into two parts, employee 1 + machine, and employee 2 + machine. It shouldn't be too prone to error but it will add to the task count.
Another approach is to first customize employee 1's calendar with vacation time. Assign employee 1, the machine, and employee 2 all to the task at 100%. Then, using a Usage view or the Resource Form, edit the start time of employee 2 so it starts the day employee 1 "heads out the door to go fishing". Here's what it might look like.
As for your question about showing employee 1's vacation on the Gantt Chart, the only way to do that is if the task is broken into two parts.
Hope this helps.
John
Machine tasks with mach01 login.
The progress updates of the mach01 tasks are updated by whichever machine operator(employee) makes progress. All operators of that machine know the login for the mach01 account. A good example would be running 2 shifts. The mach01 resource has a 20 hour calendar, if employee 2 misses the afternoon shift then no progress is made that shift. The next day you update the schedule, level and republish.
Thank you very much for your support! I will test your suggestions and get back to you. I haven't really worked with the calendar function yet, so it's probably time to familiarize myself with it.
Calendar isn't a function it is a configuration. There are 3 calendar levels. Project, Resource, Task.
Resource calendar override Project calendar and Task override resource.
Each Resource can have a unique calendar. If your machine had a 2shift 20hour calendar it will schedule 20 hrs per day. But if only 10 hours actual work is done via the task updates. The end date of the original task will move 10hrs in the future because, on this last day, 10 hours of the 20 hours scheduled work were not accomplished.In english
Dayshift employee1 booked 10hours actual work
Afternoon employee2 didn't book any actual work because they missed the shift
The fact that mach01 was scheduled for 20hrs but only 10 happened is now corrected to reality because there was no afternoon operator. Reschedule, Republish and face this new reality of you plan.
