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Two resources changing their base calendar simultaneously
Hi, I'm using Project Professional 2019. I've created some base calendar for all the projects that I have. I have two resources that when I change the base calendar of one of them, the othe...
- Thanks a lot. This last instruction helped me to resolve exactly the same issue I had.
Thanks for everything John! well, this corruption thing is very frustating, I didn't even know that would happen... you see, I'm rather new to the MSP, so this little things bothers me.
Well, I broke all the links, create a new Resource Pool, copied and paste all the resources and everything is fine now, but I do need to realocate all the resources to their tasks, this is painful, but I'll do it and will take more care with this things now.
I have another doubt... Well, with all of this that happened, I'm changing the approach of the Resource Pool, this time I'm going to do like this:
- The Resouce Pool will only contain Resources from my staff, where they can be used in N other projects.
- In the Resources of the project will only contain Resources that are not from my staff, they are from the client.
This way, when I customize my reports, each project will only contain information from itself, right?
I'm thinking like this cause the first 3 projects that I administrated where presenting the info from all resources, even if I did not use them in the project itself.
The problem with trying to separate your staff resources from client resources is that once sharing is turned on and resources are assigned from both the pool and locally, those resources become part of the linked structure. That is, a non-pool resource will appear on the Resource Sheet of the pool file and vice versa.
So the resources are separate but it won't look that way. What exactly do you mean by, "each project will only contain information from itself"?
I did come up with a method to more readily identify (separately) whether an assigned resource is coming from the pool file or from the local project file and that is by adding a custom Text field (e.g. Text1) to the Resource Sheet of each file. Here's what the Resource Sheet of the pool file might look like:
In the individual Project file, with resources assigned from both the pool and local file, this is what the Resource Usage view might look like:
Then by grouping, the totals for Staff and client resources can be shown:
Hope this helps.
John
- Simkonis,
You're more than welcome and thanks for the feedback.
John - Thanks a lot. This last instruction helped me to resolve exactly the same issue I had.