At a Glance: Resource Planner

The Project Planner comprises four parts:

Notes:

The Resources List

The Resources List displays all resources in your organizationA deployment of the Salesforce/FinancialForce applications with a defined set of licensed users. Your organization includes all of your data and applications, and is separate from all other organizations. together with their profile photos if configured by your administrator. Click Image: Expand Record Icon to expand or contract the resource's assignments and held resource requestsOccurs when a named resource has been reserved (held) against, but not booked to, a project or opportunity. Also referred to as "soft booking".. Double-click the resource name to view the edit assignments panel.

The Timeline

The Timeline contains assignment bars and resource summary bars, which represent assignment length, scheduled hours rolled up to the parent resource, and resource allocation indicated by a color code. A scrollable timeline shows days, weeks, months or quarters through a set time span.

Click on the resource entry to expand or contract the list of all the resource's assignmentConnection between a resource and a project.s and held resource requestsOccurs when a named resource has been reserved (held) against, but not booked to, a project or opportunity. Also referred to as "soft booking".. Double-click on entries in the list of assignments or held resource requests to enter Rapid Edit mode.

Resource Summary Color Code

You can review a resource's allocation level using the color code.

Bar Color Status  Description
Image: Yellow Assignment Bar This resource is under allocated Total hours for all assignments and held resource requests are currently zero or lower than the resource's work calendarA calendar that defines the working days, hours and public holidays for a resource, region, practice or group. hours.  
Image: Green Assignment Bar This resource is correctly allocated Total hours for all assignments and held resource requests currently match the resource's work calendar hours.
Image: Red Assignment Bar This resource is over allocated Total hours for all assignments and held resource requests currently exceed the resource's work calendar hours .
Image: Light Green Weekends Holidays   Indicates a weekend or a holiday (derived from the resource's work calendar) for which the resource has zero assigned hours.
Image: Blue Assignment Bar   Blue assignment bars show the contributing daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly hours for the assignment.

Related Concepts

Resource Planner and Project Planner

At a Glance: Project Planner

Edit Assignments Panel Overview

Filters Panel Overview

Rapid Edit Overview

Working with the Edit Assignments Panel

Working with the Timeline

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