Best Practices for allocating resources in Resource Management?

cayla.conner_
cayla.conner_ ✭
edited 07/05/23 inResource Management

Hello,

We are looking for some best practices around allocating resources in Resource Management. Currently, we are tracking hours at the role level for the duration of a project, but this causes our allocations to be spread out too much. Would it be useful to start tracking with Project Phases to better depict resource availability? What other best practices are there to allocate resources?

Thanks in advance.

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@Cash<\/a> <\/p>

Create a field that checks if both the created date is more then 3 days ago and the status is \"Not Started\". Then have an automation run every morning that is filtered to this field being checked.<\/p>

Example formula:<\/p>

=IF(AND(Status@row=\"Not Started\",(TODAY()-[Created Date]@row)>3),1,0)<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":355,"name":"Resource Management","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/resource-management","allowedDiscussionTypes":["discussion","question"]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":108074,"type":"question","name":"Stop people from tracking to a project when an hours or fee budget is exhausted","excerpt":"Hi Community! Does anyone know if there is a way to set up a project in Resource Management so when the time or fee budget is exhausted, people can no longer track time to that project? The only lock setting I am able to see if one to lock time entries to the project once added (or after 14 days). Not sure if I am just…","snippet":"Hi Community! Does anyone know if there is a way to set up a project in Resource Management so when the time or fee budget is exhausted, people can no longer track time to that…","categoryID":355,"dateInserted":"2023-07-25T23:15:36+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-07-27T23:41:37+00:00","insertUserID":163801,"insertUser":{"userID":163801,"name":"beverlyjosie","title":"Governance and Operations Coordinator","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/beverlyjosie","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-01T18:14:14+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":8888,"lastUser":{"userID":8888,"name":"Andrée Starå","title":"Smartsheet Expert Consultant & Partner | Workflow Consultant \/ CEO @ WORK BOLD","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Andr%C3%A9e%20Star%C3%A5","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/0PAU3GBYQLBT\/nXWM7QXGD6464.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-26T17:06:33+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":5,"countViews":128,"score":null,"hot":3380831233,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/108074\/stop-people-from-tracking-to-a-project-when-an-hours-or-fee-budget-is-exhausted","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/108074\/stop-people-from-tracking-to-a-project-when-an-hours-or-fee-budget-is-exhausted","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[468],"lastPost":{"discussionID":108074,"commentID":387700,"name":"Re: Stop people from tracking to a project when an hours or fee budget is exhausted","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/387700#Comment_387700","dateInserted":"2023-07-27T23:41:37+00:00","insertUserID":8888,"insertUser":{"userID":8888,"name":"Andrée Starå","title":"Smartsheet Expert Consultant & Partner | Workflow Consultant \/ CEO @ WORK BOLD","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Andr%C3%A9e%20Star%C3%A5","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/0PAU3GBYQLBT\/nXWM7QXGD6464.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-26T17:06:33+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Get Help","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/get-help"},{"name":"Resource Management","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/resource-management"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-07-26T16:36:54+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-07-26T16:13:19+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":387210,"body":"

Hi @beverlyjosie<\/a> <\/p>

I hope you're well and safe!<\/p>

Unfortunately, as far as I know, it's not possible now, but it's an excellent idea!<\/p>

Please submit this as a Product Feedback or Idea <\/strong>(If it hasn't been added already)<\/em><\/strong> when you have a moment.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

Did that work\/help? <\/p>

I hope that helps!<\/p>

Be safe, and have a fantastic week!<\/p>

Best,<\/p>

Andrée Starå<\/strong><\/a> | Workflow Consultant \/ CEO @ WORK BOLD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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Hi @Nkeiruka. Aguocha<\/a>, <\/p>

It sounds like the sheet you're working in is a Project Sheet that has Resource Management connected<\/a> to it, and you're using the Resource Management Panel<\/strong><\/a> in Smartsheet to sync your data. This integration will use the Resource Management API to connect the two systems. <\/p>

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