Re: Resource overutilization

Le Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:06:20PM -0500, Ben Pracht:
> 
> How can I get MrProject to either: tell me when a resource is overutilized, or move the start and end dates of a task to prevent the overutilization?

As far as I know, there is no such thing in mrproject right now.

But there are a few interesting ways:
1. if you have a look in the CVS repository of mrproject,
   you'll see a plug-in that move the tasks in such a case.
2. i'm trying to write two new kind of views, and, if it works
   well, I aim to propose this as a patch to the mrproject
   team:
   - a "resource allocation" view which look like that:
     Resource 1          AAAAA     BBBBBBBB
       Task A            AAAAA
       Task B                      BBBBBBBB
     Resource 2  CCCCCCCCC   DDDDDDDDD
       Task C    CCCCCCCCC
       Task D                DDDDDDDDD
     which will help to see overlaps for a resource
   - a "time table" where, for each resource, and/or for each
     project, you can have a view like that:
                 Resource 1      Resource 2
     2003-01-01   Task A          Task C
     2003-01-02   Task A          N/A
     2003-01-03   N/A             N/A
     2003-01-04   Task B          Task E

   The first one is rather easy to create, so there are good chances
   to have it rather soon.
   The second one is more an improvement wish, I don't know yet how
   to do it, but I'll try to find a good way in a second step.
3. I wrote a few months ago, for testing purpose, a small C program that
   show you the second view in an HTML table. It's not in mrproject,
   but can be used to check for overutilisation: when a resource is
   supposed to do two things the same day, the day is displayed red,
   when not, it's displayed green. When the day is a non-working day
   for that resource, it's displayed yellow.

Of course, none of this stuff is "production stable", but if you
want to try it, do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

	Benjamin.