Resource Allocation/Month

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Usage

Use this window to manually spread and verify it per month. The load hours per month have to be manually entered into the table and the result is immediately shown in the graph.

The window shows the consumption of a resource by a single activity compared to the total consumption (by other activities) between activity start and end date. If the activity starts or ends in the middle of a month only the part of the month within the activity period is shown.

The information displayed is the resource usage of all the activities, spread across all the months available, according to the calendar for the resource group. You can scroll through the entire activity period and view the resource allocation changes. This is useful to identify over allocated resources as you add resource connections to your project.

The bar shown for each month is the total usage allocated for the month on the X-axis, assuming an even spread in usage across the activity dates in the month. The Hours portion of the bar is the usage based on the resource connection selected activity, and the Other Hours portion is the usage of all the other activities.

The normal capacity limit defined for each month for the resource group is displayed as a line in the graph. This shows you how your planned resource usage relates to available resources.

Activity Diagrams

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Activities

Spread and Verify Resource Allocation