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Calculate Planned Hours Over Long Duration

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Has anyone figured a workaround for simplifying the amount of math a PM has to do to figure out the number of planned hours they need to assign to a resource (or multiple!) when a task spans a duration of multiple weeks? Our team is used to working in percentages by the week so it's been difficult translating the percentages to hours. Thanks! Christine Zhu Chobani
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I'm assuming your percentages are based off some sort of hourly/weekly basis as you're getting to this number manually. What I would do is take your manual calculation and created a calculated, custom field that equates to what you're looking for and populates automatically..? Or am I over simplifying? Jordan Martinson LeaseTeam, Inc.

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Level 10
I too would like to know how people are doing this, if they are. Nick Valeriote

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Hey Jordan, I would say I'm looking for almost an Excel type of functionality where we could use a formula to calculate the total number of hours that three resources would need to complete a task that spans 4 weeks. It's super simple math, but this is just another obstacle that's keeping PMs from entering in the Planned Hours. Christine Zhu Chobani