Resource Dependent Planning
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Oliver MellingMember for 19 years 5 months
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On a plan i have several activities with resource dependent activity type, fixed units/time, with a primary resource that only work a 3 day week.(Mon-Wed)
When i move the data date to Tuesday, for an unstarted 3 day task i expect the activity to extend in duration so that the days work that was planned for Wednesday moves to Monday, but what actually happens is that the finish date move to the Thursday.
This seems wrong to me as i thought, where an activity is resource dependent, the work will be scheduled against the resource calendar of the primary resource?
Has anyone come across this before?
On a plan i have several activities with resource dependent activity type, fixed units/time, with a primary resource that only work a 3 day week.(Mon-Wed)
When i move the data date to Tuesday, for an unstarted 3 day task i expect the activity to extend in duration so that the days work that was planned for Wednesday moves to Monday, but what actually happens is that the finish date move to the Thursday.
This seems wrong to me as i thought, where an activity is resource dependent, the work will be scheduled against the resource calendar of the primary resource?
Has anyone come across this before?
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Oldest first- 0Oliver Melling ·The problem was that i didnt have the Drive Activity Dates by Defaults box ticked at project level.
This meant that although the activities were set to resource dependent, the start/finish dates were not driven by the availability of the resource, but followed the activity calendar instead.
I would be interested to know a scenario that would require a resource driven plan not to be driven by the resources availability.
i.e. when would you not want the Drive Activity Dates by Defaults box ticked?
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