To assign work on a project to a single resource and enter planned hours, display the resource in the Resource View grid and specify the assignment information in the Add Assignment dialog box.
When adding resources to projects, you must make sure that the plan is checked out to you and that the row is eligible to have assignments.
Alternative: If you need to assign multiple resources to work on the same project, select the check box for each of those resources in the Resource View grid and click
+ Add Assignments on the Resource View toolbar.
In addition to resources that you assign using the planning grids, employees with no planned hours but with JTD hours charged to a plan work breakdown structure (WBS) element are assigned automatically and display in the grids as well.
To assign work on a project to one resource:
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In the Navigation pane, select
.
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If necessary, use a search to display, in the grid, the resource to whom you want to assign work.
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Hover over the resource row in the grid to display
and click
in the
Resource/Level column to display the Add Assignments dialog box. (The
does not display if the resource is inactive or terminated. You can only add assignments for active resources.)
Alternative: If the resource already has at least one assignment for the project, you can expand the plan rows for the project in the Resource View grid, navigate to a lower level of the structure, and then click
on a WBS row. In the Add Assignments dialog box, only the branch of the plan structure that you selected displays, making it easier to locate the element for which you want to make the assignment.
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Use the search field to search for and select the project for which you want to assign work to the resource.
When you select a project, the plan is automatically checked out to you. However, if a plan is currently checked out to someone else, you cannot select it. In that case,
appears next to it in the list, and the name of the person who has it checked out displays below it.
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Expand the plan structure to display the WBS element for which you want to assign work to the resource.
You can only make assignments at the lowest level of each branch of the plan structure. A check box displays next to the WBS elements for which you can add an assignment.
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Select the
Add check box for the WBS element.
Other fields in the row then become available.
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In
Assignment Start and
Assignment End, click
and use the calendar to select the start and end dates of the resource assignment.
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In
ETC Hours, enter the planned hours for the assignment.
If you are not ready to enter planned hours, leave this field blank. You can enter hours in the Resource View grid later.
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If you consider the planned hours hard booked, select the
Hard Book check box.
This check box is only available if
Vantagepoint is configured to use soft and hard booking and if you have the required security access to hard book assignments.
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To assign the resource to other WBS elements for the selected project, repeat steps 5 - 9.
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To add all of the new assignments to the plan, click
Add.