This has been stumping me. When I'm in the Gantt view and split the screen, then right click in the bottom pane and show the Resource Schedule screen I can't figure out what the difference is between the Leveling Delay and Delay columns. I understand that this applies to a certain resource, but changing the values in either column seems to have the same effect.
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Resource Schedule split view - Leveling Delay and Delay columns
- Thread starter albertaa
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Yeah, this is kinda interesting.
Let's start with field definitions: Leveling Delay and Assignment Delay
I've never played with either field before. In the attached file I created a schedule with 4 tasks and 4 resources. Notice that T1 gives R1 a Levelling Delay and TA gives RA a Delay. (Just in case the link doesn't show below ... )
The fun begins when you click on:
Tools > Level Resources > Level now.
Notice what happened to R1 and RA.
Unless you really, really, truly absolutely *must* know, I'll stop my research at this point. But if you really, really, etc. ... let me know and I'll spend a bit more time on it.
Let's start with field definitions: Leveling Delay and Assignment Delay
I've never played with either field before. In the attached file I created a schedule with 4 tasks and 4 resources. Notice that T1 gives R1 a Levelling Delay and TA gives RA a Delay. (Just in case the link doesn't show below ... )
The fun begins when you click on:
Tools > Level Resources > Level now.
Notice what happened to R1 and RA.
Unless you really, really, truly absolutely *must* know, I'll stop my research at this point. But if you really, really, etc. ... let me know and I'll spend a bit more time on it.
FietsenMaker
Technical User
I use leveling quite often and combine this with priorities.
After playing around with the file you set up, I conclude that the delay field allows you (as the planner) to specify a late start of a resource assigned to a particular task. Leveling will not change that value and will basically respect the delay and plan around it. It allows you to plan a staggered start for multiple resources assigned to one task.
Leveling delay is the delay that occurs within a task if due to leveling one of the assigned resources cannot start at the same time as the earliest starting resource assigned to that task. You can see this by adding the priority column (in the Gantt view) and changing the priority for T2 to 540 and level (use leveling order Priority, Standard to see the effect). This will force R1 to work on T2 first before continuing on T1. R2 will start on T1 immediately however, so R1 is causing a delay in T1. When all assigned resources are starting at the same time and work continuously no leveling delay is shown, even though the complete task may be delayed due to leveling.
Inserting question. It may have put me on a solution for some problems I occasionally encounter working with leveled schedules.
After playing around with the file you set up, I conclude that the delay field allows you (as the planner) to specify a late start of a resource assigned to a particular task. Leveling will not change that value and will basically respect the delay and plan around it. It allows you to plan a staggered start for multiple resources assigned to one task.
Leveling delay is the delay that occurs within a task if due to leveling one of the assigned resources cannot start at the same time as the earliest starting resource assigned to that task. You can see this by adding the priority column (in the Gantt view) and changing the priority for T2 to 540 and level (use leveling order Priority, Standard to see the effect). This will force R1 to work on T2 first before continuing on T1. R2 will start on T1 immediately however, so R1 is causing a delay in T1. When all assigned resources are starting at the same time and work continuously no leveling delay is shown, even though the complete task may be delayed due to leveling.
Inserting question. It may have put me on a solution for some problems I occasionally encounter working with leveled schedules.
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