Resources & Calendars

Hi Alaa

I don’t believe, this is possible. Rates are related to resources.
A solution might be to use three resources with different calendars and rates and activity type "resource dependent".

Hope this helps

Dieter

Thanks Dieter,

Actually it is very useful and i can use it
but it is time consuming but at least we know the long solution now searching for the short

thanks again
Alaa

If to use different resources instead of one it will be hard to study resource requirements and workloads.

Vladimir

In my opinion Alaa didn’t want to do a real resource planning, just to get costs and overall workload. He will easily be able to show a summary curve.

Per assignment the rate can be modified, this will take longer.

Alaa

You can easily replace a resource by another one for a group of activities:
Select the assign-resource icon on the right border of the P6 Window. --> Select all activities where you want to replace resource "Labour" by e.g. "Labour1" --> Select resource "labour" then icon "replace by" --> an additional window will open --> select resource "labour1" --> assign.

Regards
Dieter

Thanks
i will try the two ways
but it seems it is not available in p6 to change the resource rate whence you change the activity calendar
am i right

thanks
Alaa

Alaa

You’re right. 5 rates per resource to be selected by default for a project, can be overwritten by assignment (resource to activity): Different rate, different choice from those 5 rates, from roles or budgeted price for the activity.

Just had another idea: If you want to use only one resource, use roles. Assign the resource to 3 different roles with different rates/unit --> create Global Change (group: Resource Assignments) Rate source=role --> assign the calendars --> group by calendar --> select all activities belonging to one goup --> assign appropriate role to each group. If you have one resource per activity, you can use view "Activities", esle view "Assignments".

Selection of rate following calendar not possible - only programming API or SQL.
Regards
Dieter

Thanks Dieter
i use the following technique to solve the problem
i keep the same resource
but i change the effective date for each rate that i want
in my assignment i have 10 different rates
so for example for Resource ( Helper / labor)
i create 10 rates with different effective dates
so i will just change the effective date to suit the schedule
it is working
and i am still working on your options since they are more professional
please i will come back to you for further assistance
sorry for taking your time but this how the beginner like me use the professional like you

thanks
Alaa

Dear Alaa

You’re welcome

Dieter