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Individual Resource Calendars

Last post 06-14-2006 9:52 AM by MJM. 4 replies.
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  • 05-05-2006 8:41 AM

    Individual Resource Calendars

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    I am looking for some feedback regarding setting calendars for individual project team members. I need to schedule around vacation days and othe types of time off and as far as I can tell, the Enterprise Calendars do not accommodate occasional non-work time.

    In the past, in working with MicroSoft Project, I have used the individual resource calendars to block out specific days for different resources, but I do not see something comparable to this in eProject.

    Any suggestions would be appreciated.

  • 05-08-2006 10:59 AM In reply to

    Re: Individual Resource Calendars

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    dgainespmp:

    I am looking for some feedback regarding setting calendars for individual project team members. I need to schedule around vacation days and othe types of time off and as far as I can tell, the Enterprise Calendars do not accommodate occasional non-work time.

    In the past, in working with MicroSoft Project, I have used the individual resource calendars to block out specific days for different resources, but I do not see something comparable to this in eProject.

    Any suggestions would be appreciated.



    You are correct, Enterprise Calendars do not facilitate this need and eProject does need to provide a better solution to managing PTO/Vacation at the user level.  PPM6 does address this in part so a change is coming.

    For today, a decent solution I have suggested in the past is to create a "Public" workspace (a program or portfolio will suffice) that has the Tasks Application enabled.  Users (or their managers) may input tasks that represent pto/vaction and assign it to the member for the timeframe that it occurs.  We use this internally for our consultants in Professional Services and it works quite well.  Each user is a Summary Task, with their PTO time put in as a task and then assigned to that users.  Using Quick add it takes very little time to input a pto "task" into the schedule at any insertion point.  In addition, by placing it in its own workspace you can single it out or add it in to standard reports or ARE.




    Steve Thompson | Solutions Consultant
    Daptiv

  • 06-09-2006 1:05 PM In reply to

    • Max B.
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    Re: Individual Resource Calendars

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    Steve:

    Now that PPM6 is here, is there a new solution for this problem?

    Microsoft Project, in the "Tools/Change Worktime" menu, allows you to designate specific days within a project time period which are non-working days; it also allows you to designate vacation days for users; if a user is assigned to a task which occurs during one of these designated time, the task will automatically skip those days off.

    I don't see anything similar in PPM6; are we left with the same problem as in Enterprise?

  • 06-13-2006 10:05 AM In reply to

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    Max B.:

    Steve:

    Now that PPM6 is here, is there a new solution for this problem?

    Microsoft Project, in the "Tools/Change Worktime" menu, allows you to designate specific days within a project time period which are non-working days; it also allows you to designate vacation days for users; if a user is assigned to a task which occurs during one of these designated time, the task will automatically skip those days off.

    I don't see anything similar in PPM6; are we left with the same problem as in Enterprise?



    I believe (and you know this already) that the resource planning tool is the only area that comes close to having some functionality around vacation scheduling.  It has not yet been addressed in the Tasks/Global Calendar settings area afaik.
    Steve Thompson | Solutions Consultant
    Daptiv

  • 06-14-2006 9:52 AM In reply to

    • MJM
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    Re: Individual Resource Calendars

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    Denise,

    Have you had any luck setting up a vacation calendar?  I would be interested to see how well these ideas worked for you. 

     

    Michael Mamros, PMP

    Amerisure Mutual Insurance
    26777 Halsted Road
    Farmington Hills, MI 48331

    248.426.7845
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