Dear all,
I noticed, that Spider ignores the activity priority for all leveling algorithms, except Standard. I understand, this is a deliberate decision.
See example below:
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Question: how do I address the following task then:
In project I have sometimes 2 or more streams, one of them is more important and others less important. So I do not want any resource constraint to delay the main stream, even though the end date of the project may get delayed because of this. At the same time, both for 1st as well as for 2nd priority stream I would want spider to use the best scheduling algorithm, available to it (optimization plus)
So in a way one can consider this as 2 separate projects. Any resource is allowed to work on the 2nd priority project only if it is doing nothing on the 1st priority project. However one cannot treat these as totally 2 independent projects, as there can be links from the high priority to low priority project. E.g.: certain activities within low priority project shall have predecessors within low priority project.
Real example: As a part of project we also have to update none-time critical documentation, but this can be done after delivery and has no or little payment attached to it. So I don’t want any resource to work on updating none-time critical documentation if it may delay system delivery, still if resource has some free time, I want him to use it for documentation update.
Regards.
Evgeny