Hello everybody

I have a question about the calculation of the "Work" of task with respect to the work contour selected.

Example:

I have a task with "Fixed Work". I created the task with the "work contour "Flat". If I change the "work countour" afterwards to any other type e.g. to "front loaded" the "Work" will be reduced and I have to set the "Work" to the correct value again  manually.

Can anybody explain this behavior?

Kind regrads

Michael

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

Hello,

I added the column "work" next to "duration". First is shown in hours, second in days. Is it possible to set both same? I prefer to work with days only. It is not very useful to work with thousend of hours if you want to set 100 or 200 days for a single task.

Thank you