GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 129436
Disallowing a resource to work more than 100%
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
This is a feature request - not a bug report My main requirement from planner to make it really useful would be resource scheduling, i.e. not allowing a resource to work more than 100%. This would ideally be built in, but equally, a useful alternative / compliment would be the ability to import "taskjuggler" xml reports. Taskjuggler seems to be a good scheduler, but so far lacks a conventient graphical input or output. It would not be unthinkable to input tasks in planner, export to taskjuggler for scheduling, and finally import the results for display in planner. A good reuse of software maybe? Just a thought.
A resource should have a maximun number of units defined which would default to 100%. The more practical case is when you sometimes you may only want a resource to be 50% used on a project i.e. if you are working on two projects at once and must share time between them. No one can thus take 100% of your time. I'm suggesting a Max Units field. See attached suggested GUI - enhance the resource dialog to have a Costs tab and add Max Units to that. Lincoln.
Created attachment 23721 [details] Suggested new Costs Tab in Resource dialog showing Max Units.
I forgot to say Max Units should be able to be larger than 100 e.g. 200, though in practice most people actually would keep at 100% or define it lower, but sometimes it helps fudge a Project ;) Lincoln.
See bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139443 for some ideas on how to help resolve this (hard) problem using task priority.
We have too many bug reports about resource usage. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132917 ***