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Old 10-22-2014, 01:07 AM
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I'd first look at the Resource Usage view to see what is causing the overallocation. Clearly if Dave is only working 4.5 hours - he isn't overallocated on a day by day setting. Leveling from the Gantt view (where you see the little red men) is mostly useless - you have no idea why he's overallocated, no idea what tasks are causing the issue.
Ah so am I supposed to level from the resource usage view? I will have a look and try it now

ETA - OK, I went on resource view and can see day by day that Dave is red. However, he is red, even when he is only doing 0.64 days. His calendar is the standard calendar. I cant think of anything else I need to check...
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OK, I think I have worked out what is wrong.

It doesn't seem to like recurring tasks.

I have put some more work in there for our painters. Painting only gets done once a year on the buildings, except for one, where its 2 days a month.

So for all the buildings needing painting, I put in the relevant duration for the year and for the odd building, a recurring tasks, once a month to the end of the year. When I levelled the 2 resources on painting, it moved everything either before or after the recurring task.

Im making the tasks just individual now, to see how they go.




If anyone else has any comments, I would appreciate it
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Old 10-22-2014, 04:47 AM
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Recurring tasks are constrained with a Start No Earlier than constraint and also have a leveling priority of 1000 - meaning do not level. You may have more success changing the priority (add the field to the Gantt chart view) to something below 1000 - the lower the number, the more likely it is to be leveled.

You'll also want to allow tasks to be split so they will not be delayed until all of the recurring tasks are complete.

And do not use leveling hour by hour. That is what is causing the overallocations when your resource isn't working a full day. Leave it at Day by Day.
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Old 10-23-2014, 01:01 AM
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Recurring tasks are constrained with a Start No Earlier than constraint and also have a leveling priority of 1000 - meaning do not level. You may have more success changing the priority (add the field to the Gantt chart view) to something below 1000 - the lower the number, the more likely it is to be leveled.

You'll also want to allow tasks to be split so they will not be delayed until all of the recurring tasks are complete.

And do not use leveling hour by hour. That is what is causing the overallocations when your resource isn't working a full day. Leave it at Day by Day.
Thanks I will try these today and let you know how I get on


ETA - JulieS - you are a gem, it works perfectly, thank you so much for your help
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