Resource Scheduling Processing Options
Each time you perform resource scheduling, you can use the Resource Scheduling dialog box to specify the processing options.
These processing options are as follows:
- In-progress Priority Processing: This option allows you to specify that in-progress activities have priority access to limited resources.
- Hard Zeros Processing: This option exempts any implied resource availability of zero from being incremented through the use of thresholds or during time-limited resource scheduling.
- Resource Smoothing Processing: This option attempts to even out or "smooth" the way in which resources are assigned to activities.
- Priority Fields: Open Plan allows you to specify up to three fields indicating priorities that are used as tie-breakers during resource scheduling.
- Scheduling Interval: The scheduling interval is the time interval that Open Plan should use in performing resource scheduling.
- Resource Selection: By clearing some resources, you instruct Open Plan to schedule the project as though an unlimited quantity of resources were available.
- Force Overloaded Activities to Late Dates: This option controls whether or not Open Plan should force overloaded activities to their late dates rather than to their early dates.
- Try Alternate Resource to Avoid Delay: This option controls the use of alternate resources in resource scheduling.
- Limit Reprofiling to Original Level: This option controls whether or not Open Plan should limit the reprofiling of a resource assignment to a level that does not exceed the original profile for any given unit of duration.
After you have specified a set of resource scheduling options for a particular project, these options remain the defaults for that project each time it is scheduled.
Attention: For more information about each option, see the Resource Scheduling dialog box Advanced tab.