Showing Assignment Page Header Rows

This article describes how to show header information for a selected assignment row on Labor and Financial assignment pages.

Overview

On Labor assignment pages there are two header row options that show information at the top of the page about the currently selected row:

Show Project Schedule – show project start-finish bar (if there are start and finish dates in project fields), phase GANTT bars (if there are phase start and finish dates), and milestones (if any).

Show Header Rows – show the phase timeline for the project, and show total demand, capacity, allocation and allocation % for the resource or required node-skill on the selected row.
[See the section Method of Calculating Node-Skill Capacity and Demand below.]

On Financial assignment pages, Show Project Schedule is the only option.

How To

Show Column Headers

Step 1: Click the Labor assignment page Options icon.

Step 2. Select the Header Rows menu.

Step 3. Click the Show Column Headers checkbox.

[If no cell is selected, empty header rows appear at the top of the page.]

Step 4: Select a cell in a row.

Four rows appear above the period columns.

• Total capacity of the resource or node-skill (see below for the method of calculating node-skill capacity)
• Total demand from all assignments (not just the selected assignment)
• Allocation to the selected row based on the current optimization settings
• Allocation % = Allocation divided by Demand on the selected row

Show Project Schedule

Step 1: Click the assignment page Options icon.

Step 2. Hover over or select the Header Rows menu.

Step 3. Click the Show Project Schedule checkbox.

If phase and milestone dates have been entered for the project, the schedule objects are displayed at the approximate point in the date range.

Note: Both project schedule and column header sections CAN be displayed at the same time.

Method of Calculating Node-Skill Capacity and Demand

The values for capacity and demand when a skill assignment is selected are calculated using these methods:

Demand – the sum of all assignment demand for the required skill-node combination including resource and skill assignments.

Capacity – the sum of allocation to all resource and skill assignments with that node-skill combination PLUS the sum of the unused capacity of resources with that Primary Skill in the target assignment node.

Note: Skill assignment capacity calculation ignores secondary skills.