Resource Demand skill demand request has been enhanced to enabled project managers and resourcing teams to request and fill demand by Weeks. Working in Weeks works when Fiscal Calendars are enabled.
1 – Prerequisite
Under ADMINISTRATION | System | Project, the Enable Fiscal Calendar checkbox needs to be selected. Fiscal Calendar data is displayed under ADMINISTRATION | Business Planning.
2 – Determining the 1st day of the week
The system will look at the Fiscal Calendar and get the day from the 1st day from a full fiscal month and display the day as read only on ADMINISTRATION | System | General.
3 – Project Properties
With Fiscal Calendars enabled the PM can set the Resource Demand Period set to Weeks on the project properties. Once Skill demand is pushed to Resource Demand this field will become read only. To reset the data from the resource allocation screen needs to be cleared out.
4 – Push to Resource Demand
When set to Weeks on clicking the Star icon on the Gantt, the prompt will display all weeks for the duration of the project. The current week will be highlighted by default.
5 – Linear Skill Demand Requests
On the Gantt there are not changes to requesting skills, but on the resource, allocation screen the data will be broken down into the weekly periods according to the fiscal calendar and start day of the week.
Task created with 36 Days duration.
Skill demand added for the 36 days.
Resource Allocation screen shows the breakdown. Week of Jan 01 – Jan 03 has 2 working days.
On adding a named user, the periods are broken down by weekly period.
6 – Distribution Curves
On the Gantt, if using Custom distribution curves, the data is split evenly across the number of weeks, with Edit option.
On pushing to Resource Demand, the data is split as per the periods set on the Gantt.
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