On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:32:00 -0700, Robin Roe <...@discussions.microsoft.com

Hi

I have two related questions. Using Project 2003 with Fixed Duration and non
Effort Driven

1. I have two tasks (A and B) both of 5 days duration, that overlap by one
day. Task A starts Monday 1st and finishes Friday 5th at 5PM. Task B starts
Friday 5th at 8AM. Both have Resource X assigned at 75%. Project correctly
informs me that Resource X is over allocated on Friday 5th at 150%. (Other
resources are also allocated but are not over allocated) Is there a setting
in Project to only show over allocation when a resource exceeds say their
weekly number of hours? So in the case above Resource X would not show over
allocation as they would only be doing 36hrs (6 + 6 + 6 +6 + 12) from a
possible 40.

2. Following on from the above scenario, how can project automatically
resource level the above without letting it shift the dates on the task.
Typically it moves the start of task B to the following Monday. I would like
it to amend the assignment hrs so that it shows Resource X working 8hrs on
Friday 5th and redistributes the extra 4 hours (12-8) across the other 4
days on each task, in which case each task would have the following hrs
7,7,7,7,4. Have tried using the ‘Leveling can adjust individual assignments
on Tasks’ but it doesn’t seem to do anything. I have also ticked the Level
only within available slack’

While I understand why project wants to show every minute of over
allocation, clients sometimes are a little less clear on what it means.

Thanks for any help

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Robin