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Struggling to apply multiple resources with different work commitment to one task

September 23, 2014 - 01:04 am
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Dear All,

I am tryint to set up a task, which requires a total of 40 hours of week, which may spread over 10 days duration. I am using the "Fixed Work" type. All works well, until I start adding resources. Initially, can add all resources, but when I want to change their individual hours, the duration changes to the total hours accoding to the resources calendar. When I want to change this again to reflect that the actual work may be spread over two weeks, all goes haywire and I cannot spread the total work hours over the resouces as I deem fit. To make things worse, PL also insists during this process to change the default contrain type to "Start no earlier than", which I suspect is a bug.

Is this normal behaviour and I am using the software wrongly? If so, how would I do this best, e. g., setting up 3 different sub-tasks for each resource? Or shall I leave the "Duration" alone and add some "Lag" to any successor to reflect that this task can move flexibly within a certain time frame?

Thanks for your help

Tom