Hi
You can enter resource demand (planned hours) in the Project Navigator, however limited to linear spreading between activity start/finish date. More sophisticated spreading options exists if you enter the hours in Project Resource Forecast and then “transfer to planning” (to Project Navigator). Note that the spreading, e.g. frontloaded, remains in Project Navigator, i.e. until you might change it there.
Thus, what I would like to understand is whether it is possible to allocate employees towards a spread demand, e.g. frontloaded, and spread the allocation similarly to the demand, or if I am “stuck” with an option to only have linearly spread allocation within the allocation period.
I do realize that there are challenges/prerequisites for spreading allocation equal to demand, e.g. if you chose to allocate in only a subset of the demand period because how then would you spread. On the other hand, a typical need would be to simply accommodate a demand fully, both with respect to hours, duration and spreading.
We want to establish some lobbies with e.g. traffic lights for Project Managers, e.g. so that they can see if their project is OK as far as allocation go, i.e. if allocations (commitments) have been given from resource owners. However, if a Project Manager has a frontloaded demand but the allocation is only stored linearly, then it will appear as if there are problems in the early months of an activity, because allocations are lower than demand…
What have others done in this situation?
b.r. Carsten
PS: I am aware that we could make a Custom RMB to update the data via SQL behind the scenes, but this is not so beatiful…
PPS: We are on 10.8
