Set Skill Levels Dialog Box

When you search for named resources based on skills, use the Set Skill Levels dialog box to specify the desired or required skill levels (years of experience or level of proficiency using a skill, for example) or skill usage (how frequently a resource uses the skill or how long he or she has been using it) for those skills.

Location

To display the Set Skill Levels dialog box, complete the following steps:

1. In the Resource Planning workspace, click to go to the Resource View.
2. If the Find Resources panel is not visible on the left side of the workspace, click in the upper-left corner of the workspace to display it.
3. If you want to enter skill level detail for a saved search, select that search in SAVED SEARCHES on the panel.
4. Click Set details below the SKILLS field on the panel.

Contents

Field	Description
SKILL	If you have already selected one or more skills in the SKILLS field on the Find Resources panel, those skills display in this column. To enter skill level and usage requirements for a skill, click that grid row and select the values you want in the SKILL LEVEL and SKILL USAGE columns. To add an additional skill to the search, click + Add Skill below the grid, click this field, and select the skill. If the list of skills is long, you can also type one or more characters in the field and pause to display a selection list that includes only skills that contain those characters. To delete a skill, click at the end of the grid row for that skill.
SKILL LEVEL	To specify a required skill level (years of experience or level of proficiency using a skill, for example), click this field and select the skill level. You must select the skill levels one at a time, but you can select as many as you want. If the list of skill levels is long, you can type one or more characters in the field to display a selection list that includes only skill levels that contain those characters.
SKILL USAGE	To specify a required skill usage (how frequently a resource uses the skill), click this field and select the skill usage description. You must select the skill usage descriptions one at a time, but you can select as many as you want. If the list of skill usage descriptions is long, you can type one or more characters in the field to display a selection list that includes only skill usage descriptions that contain those characters.
+ Add Skill	To add an additional skill to the search, click + Add Skill below the grid to add a new skill row. Select the skill in the SKILL column.
Set and Cancel	Click Set to include the skill level data in the resource search. Click Cancel to discard your entries and close the dialog box without updating the search.