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3.4. Assigning Resources and Levelling values

This section assumes that you have already created the resources you need through the Admin console.

For each task, you can now decide which resource(s) to allocate for the task by double-clicking the Resources column. In the dialog that comes up you may choose the resources to allocate, and whether the task uses multiple resources or whether the task is to be assigned to only one of the assigned resources.

This is also a good time to decide whether the task is to contribute to the resource's workload or whether it should not be counted when calculating the resource's workload. Tasks that contribute to a resource's workload are handled differently by the scheduler, in that it attempts to ensure that the resource's maximum workload (100 percent) is not exceeded by the schedule of these tasks.

You can set a task to contribute to the workload by selecting the checkbox in the Level Resources column.

Modifying resources and the levelling property will alter the schedule, but it's best not to try to fine-tune the schedule until dependencies have been added.