I'm working on building a very detailed MS Project schedule for our around the clock maintenance work in a facility. I've set the project up on a 24 hour 7 day per week schedule and set up working time for a day shift worker (12hr; 7:00AM to 7:00PM) and a night shift worker (12hr; 7:00PM to 12:00AM,12:00AM to 7:00AM). I'm wanting to be able to have both resources assigned to the task so that it will automatically assign the work to the appropriate resource based on the start/end date and time. This works well if you know exactly when the work will take place. My problem comes in when I go to change the task time. For example, I have (qty: 2) day shift workers and (qty: 2) night shift workers assigned to the task that has a duration of 2 hours starting at 5:00PM. It shows 4 hours of work for day shift worker and 0 hours of work for night shift worker in the task usage. When I shift the predecessor and it moves the task start/finish time to the night shift, it doesn't shift the work from the day shift worker to the night shift worker. I'm needing to get a overall headcount of workers based on the tasks to provide to maintenance group to hire more people. Is there a way to build this schedule to allow for changes to resources that are on different shifts? It also changes the duration and gives an error sometimes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
