Re: Resource overutilization

First, thanks for a great GPL tool.

Can we not use the Priority field to decide how to solve the resource
over-utilization problem? Basically first order tasks by dependencies
and then for over-utilized tasks, use the priority to schedule in more
detail. I am running into the same difficulty, and I personally think
manually putting start dates for over-utilized tasks will lead to a
book-keeping nightmare where I have to go in an change all start dates
if I change some part of the schedule at the beginning of the project. 

Thanks.

Sasan
p.s. please reply to my email as I am not on the mrproject list.

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:45, Benjamin BAYART wrote:
> 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.
>