Resource planning

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General

The resource planning is found in Project: Resource planning and is used to plan the employees’ daily or weekly working time.

Select colours for project types in System: Base registers/PRO/Parameters tab Fees.

Choose the employees that shall be selectable in the resource planning program in System: Base registers/Pro/Employees.

The planning can be made per group, staff category and working team. These are connected with the employee in System: Base registers/PRO/Employee. It is also possible to plan on client teams and to include additional employees to the selection.

Group	Planning per group. Register group in System: Base registers/Pro/Groups and connect to employee in Base registers/Pro/Employees.
Staff category	Planning per staff category. Register in System: Base registers/Pro/Staff categories and connect to employee in Base registers/Pro/Employees.
Working team	Planning per working team. Register in System: Base registers/Pro/Working teams and connect to employee in Base registers/Pro/Employees
Client team	Planning per team. Team is stated on the client in System: Base registers/Pro/Clients/Projects – tab Team.
Additional employee	Possibility to add employees to the selection.
Favourites	If you only want the list to show your favourites, click on the far left column. Shift between favourites and all by clicking on the column header.

To plan resources

You can plan time per week or per day. Double click on an employee’s day or select the day in the chart and click Open.

If you are planning per week, enter all hours on Monday. When you select itemization level “Week”, you will have the overview of the week.

Enter project -id, comment, estimated hours and job code. All fields are not mandatory. Click OK to save and CANCEL to cancel your planning.

To allocate resources

Select one or several employees. Select day or an interval of days for the allocation. Click ALLOCATE.

Whole amount…	The amount of hours written in the hours-field will be allocated to all selected days and all selected employees.
Equally allocated	The hours written in the hours-field will be divided and equally allocated between the selected days and employees.
Maximally until all…	The hours written in the hours-field will be allocated to the employees in alphabetical order.
Maximal allocation %	Percentage of hours regarding Equally allocated and Max allocated. Useful e.g. when an employee shall work a part of a day with a project.

To edit planned days

Right click on a planned day (Ctrl + mouse click on Macs). You can also select several days to edit at the same time.

Copy	It is possible to copy a planned day or employee.
Move	The selected day can be moved/pasted into another date or employee.
Paste	Paste the copied day to another day or another employee. It replaces earlier information. Before pasting, you will have a question if you want to replace existing information.
Add	A copied or moved day can be pasted into the selected day without replacing existing information. The new information will be added to the existing.
Delete	All information in the selected day will be deleted.

Other functions

Arrows	Move between weeks with the arrows.
Copy period	This function enables copying of selected employee(s) and period to another period.

Export

Click EXPORT if you want to print out the planning to Excel. The printout shows the actual view of the screen. The planned time and hours from the calendar is written under each employee. If the planned hours exceeds the calendar hours, the amount is written in red.

Undo	This function undoes your last input.

Selection – Show

Planned time	If selected, the list shows the planned time from the resource planning.
Used time	If selected, the list shows the reported time from Time reporting.
Empty rows	If you want to see all rows, even those without planned time, tick Empty rows.
Sums	Summarises the day’s planned time.
Do not sort	Select/deselect for sorting in alphabetical order.

Selection– Details

Details	This selection shows a weekly resource planning per day and employee.
Week	Shows the planned time per week
Available resources	Colour settings can be made in FUNCTIONS the upper left corner; select SETTINGS and then Project accounting. Select rates of utilization for the different colours. In the example below, red colour indicates that the person is fully booked; green indicates that there is some time left and white that there is no planned time at all. If there is only a little time left for planning, the TOTAL- column will be yellow.

List

If you select List instead of overview, the program shows a list per project; what is planned and what has been registered. You can select type of project: You can deepen on date, employee, code, project or details. You can also deepen on a certain record, just click on a row to see details.

Delete	On itemisation level “List”, deepening on “Details”, the Delete-button is activated. Select one or several rows (press Ctrl-key and select rows) and click on DELETE.
Project	Selection “All” shows all projects. “External” projects are E, G and J (external, group and speculations). “No spec” shows all except speculations. “According to list” opens a project list where you can select projects.

Move

The function is used for moving hours on project – or employee level to other days. Select periods in the date fields (from –to). The period determines the first moving date and also limits amount of hours that can be moved.

Select deepening Project or Employee. Then, select project or person and click on Move. You will see a list of planned time for the project/person you’ve chosen.

State how many working days the hours will be moved ahead. You can also write a date in the field To (start date). The columns New date and Left after moving are updated after each moving.

New date shows the day of the planned move.

Left after moving shows the day after the move has been done.

Confirm by saving. Note, that a move cannot be undone.

Time reporting

You can import project, comments and hours from the resource planning into the day report. Click the button IMPORT FROM RESOURCE PLANNING.

Click on RESOURCE PLANNING to see a weekly overview of your planned time. If you click the box REPORTED, you can compare your planned and used time.

Project: Queries

If the parameter ”Show resource planned in project analysis” is checked (in System: Base register/Pro/Parameters/Clients and projects), two columns are shown in the project analysis view: Planned 1 and WIP 2.

Planned shows sales price fees for all future time that has been planned on the project and WIP 2 shows WIP+ Planned.

A project’s resource planning is shown in Project: Questions/Project, under the tab FEES. The list shows the planned time and the time so far reported on the project. You can select a time interval and sort the list per employee, code, date or details. You can also use quick search.

Reports

You can activate the data definition “Resource planned time” in Reports and use it as a column in your reports.