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Resource load calculations and duration of tasks

How do the resource load calculations account for task duration? For example, I have a task that has 100 hours of work assigned to it. The duration of that task is 4 weeks. Does the resource load calculator assume to spread those hours over the 4 week duration (i.e. 25 hours/week)? Or does put all 100 hours in the week that the task is due? I can't figure out the exact answer from the knowledge base.

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Thank you, Boris. I did read through the documentation, and saw a section that briefly discusses "start date and duration policies, controlling the calculation of the schedule properties for the task assigned to the resource", but I don't think that answers my question. I don't understand how I would adjust or view the settings to figure out how duration is factored in to the resource load.

Maybe the better question is: What is the default for factoring in Work and Duration on tasks in the resource load calculator?

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Joanne,

Resource Load is a calculation of Work, Duration AND Resource Unit% based on the time frame you show (i.e. Day, Week or Month). In this case, we are going to look at the Resource Load for a user that is on a Task that has 100h of Work and 4wk Duration. This will auto-calculate the Unit% that the Resource will be allocated on this task which comes out to 62.5% of their time. I set up a task like this that starts on 8/24/15, ends on 9/21/15 and here is what it would look like...

The Resource Load will show this as 25h for week 1 (based on Startdate), 25h in week 2, 20h in week 3 (because of Labor Day) and since 5h a day is allocated you get 20h for the week, 25h in week 4 and another 5h the following Monday (Week 5).

Understand that PTO and Holidays or any other non-working days are taken into account during the calculation.

Does this help or do you need further explanation?

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