On Jul 22, 11:41*am, "Jan De Messemaeker" <janremovet...@prom-ade.be>
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> Hi,
>
> Do you use 1 file per job all all in 1 file?
> If all in 1 file then resoruce sharing is irrelevant.
> The answer is you should use resource leveling to do away with the
> overallocations.
> Reads teh principles and give it a try; do come back here for details if
> necessary.
> HTH
>
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> > We are trying to use MS project to make production schedule for our
> > truck body jobs. As all jobs are similar, must go through different
> > workcenters, we take different jobs as tasks and workcenters as
> > subtasks.
>
> > For each workcenter (subtask), we have relatively stable workers
> > (resources). I already made groups by workcenters for these resources.
> > We don't want to assign specific resources to subtasks, because we
> > don't care who would do the job. Anyone in the group would be ok. So I
> > try to assign groups on subtasks, but many resources are
> > overallocated. Then I try to build a resource pool, and share
> > resources for different subtasks, but it seems it still doesn't work.
> > Many resources are still overallocated. What should I do to make sure
> > the resources are not overallocated for different subtasks? Is that
> > the proper way to use 'share resource'? Or is there a better way to
> > solve the problem or easy for us to schedule?
>
> > Please help.
> > Thanks,
> > Tracey- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi, Jan,

I put all in one file, and had a try on level resource. It works.
Thanks.

I have another question. If we don't care who would do the job and
just pick one or two persons to do the job at the time, then how
should I assign resources? If assigning the group instead of
individuals, the duration would be much shorter than it actually is.
Is there a easy way to do that? We don't want to specify some
individuals to the job. We hope to assign labor time in the group
instead of individuals. Is that possible? Please help.

Thanks,
Tracey