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alexquinn
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April 29, 2021
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Workload Balancer - Include Time Off Hours in Calculated Planned Hours

  • April 29, 2021
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In the Workload Balancer, although time off appears as diagonal lines in the box, the hours are not calculated/included in the resources' overall planned hours for a given day.


It would be helpful as a Resource Manager to see the cumulated hours (which includes ie 1 or more hours). Right now, I have to go into the Resources' time off to confirm the hours they are taking and then account for that when assigning tasks.

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    itmailbox
    Level 2
    October 10, 2022

    Agreed.  It seems like they should be able to indicate this also as a task or issue with a planned start date and planned end date.  Otherwise how is a resource manager going to know someone's not available because they're on PTO without using other resources?  Also, I'm not seeing the diagonal lines in my view, so I don't see any indication at all when staff are on PTO.  

    ElliotLeson
    ElliotLeson
    Level 3
    October 11, 2022

    If you hover over the Time Off (airplane/gray box with bars) it will show the Planned Hours and Capacity Hours the resource is allocated. So if you base the resource off of a 40 hour work week and they are off one day, it will read, Capacity 32 hours. If the resource is overallocated, the box color turns red and will also indicate when you hover that the resource is overallocatd.

     

     

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    itmailbox
    Level 2
    October 13, 2022

    Elliot, do you see this in the Workload balancer?  I don't see what you're showing in your screen cap.

    ElliotLeson
    ElliotLeson
    Level 3
    October 13, 2022

    Yes, I see this.

    More than happy to have a meeting with you to discuss and assist.

    Thank you

    Elliot 

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    itmailbox
    Level 2
    October 14, 2022

    Thank you Elliot.  I do see the capacity reflected now, but still don't see the "time off" indicator you show in the screen cap.  If you're ok taking 20 min to talk about it, please send me an email at itmailbox@clynch.com and suggest a couple times next week that would work for you.  

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    EstherH54
    Level 2
    August 13, 2024

    honestly the Workfront Time Off aspect does not work well. That black line per the image above doesn't always reflect correctly especially when you have resources in other time region. Something about IST vs US hours messes it up. I have resources that take several consecutive days but the black bar doesn't reflect all the days. In the past, the project plan/workflows would also indicate if a resource assigned to a task is on PTO with a little indicator but Adobe/Workfront got rid of that. CAN YOU PLEASE BRING IT BACK? It's hard for our project managers to understand which project/tasks are affected by a resource being on PTO. This is basic project management tool functions. How can you NOT have this any more? 

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