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Jane has attended:
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Project Intermediate course

by - delegate Jane [2 posts] (2008 Apr 29 Tue, 15:41) Reply

What's the best way to plan resources who will be working part-time on the project, when they do not work on fixed days each week? Using percentages gets very complicated. Is there a simpler option?

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RE: part-time resource

by - trainer Alan silver contributer [53 posts] (2008 May 18 Sun, 17:56) Reply

Sorry Jane, but no.

The practical way is to ensure they are in the Resource Sheet as a percentage. Make sure the resource calendar is the Standard calendar. Then after you allocate them to a task, go to Resource Usage view and manually edit the working hours which Project has assigned.

RE: part-time resource

by - delegate Jane [2 posts] (2008 May 20 Tue, 11:41) Reply

Thanks Alan,

I suspected that was the case!

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