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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Thanks Julie, I will try to incorporate your suggestions. Thank you for all your help! By the way, I was meaning to ask another question. Say I have a pool of X number of people who are capable of performing Y tasks. Can project allocate them according to availability without me actually...
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Maybe now, with classic dropbox...https://www.dropbox.com/s/gghc5aatuexcgmo/tek-tips.mpp
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Not sure the last one worked. I am trying again with a different servicehttp://d01.megashares.com/dl/jqEi3nZ/tek-tips.mpp
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Thanks, here is the file. My problem is really with the next to last task (task 57), as you can see in the resource usage sheet, Nick could work more on previous days, he has many days with less than 100% utilization, and yet - he is not allocated on those days. The question is why. I want this...
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Julie, I obviously started out with 100% resource allocation, but that came out actually worse, as Project waited for days where the resource can be allocated at full or close to full capacity, so if that resource only had 0.3 days left or something, he wouldn't allocate him. Long story short -...
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Ok, so how do I change units? How do I make sure that a task is not underallocated, and why wouldn't Project let me (even manually) assign more hours to a resource that's currently underallocated (in the resource usage sheet). Thanks again!
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    I turned it off, and it created a much longer duration (which is what I don't want). I don't know, I think it must have something to do with the % allocation (currently at 50%) which drives this problem, but every time I tried changing it to something else, it made it worse (or in other words -...
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Julie, thank you too. As I said, fixed work, auto leveling, whenever needed. Some deadline constraints. That is where I am now
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Thanks for your reply! Right now, everything is effort driven with fixed work. After all, for me it's the unites I want to change (or in other words, the % of each unit on the various tasks). the weird thing is that I actually tried solving this by adding a date constraint (a "start no earlier"...
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    Percentage Resource Allocation problem - allocating whenever available?

    Hi all, I ran into a problem and I was wondering if anyone here can help me. In a project I am building, there is one task with three resources. The one main resource, I have tried assigning different percentages to, but nothing works. Let's assume I currently tried putting this resource on...
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    Partial resource allocation

    Thank you all, I actually managed to squeeze stuff in, shortening manually the bars on the GANTT chart (I honestly, didn't know you can do that) to end in 2 weeks time, and than by leveling all. Right now it seems fine, and I hope it will continue to be so. Thanks again!
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    Partial resource allocation

    Thanks for all the data. I did know that reading about MS project extensively in the last week, however for some reason - what works in excel does not work in project and for the life of me, I can't understand why. I deliberately used fixed work, because that's the input I have. However in the...
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    Partial resource allocation

    Hi all, I am a little new to MS Project and still trying to figure things out, but to start with, I have a question. So I have a project with several tasks and resources - however whenever a task requires more than 1 resource, it allocates all of them for the same time (say 5 man days)...
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