Hi all,
I need a view on this situation below in P6. Basically, I am building a schedule and the P6 settings are: fixed duration & units and task dependent activity. Project has not started
Situation: I created an activity with a duration of 4d and then allocated a resource to the activity with default units/time as 8h/d. This made the budgeted units to be 32hrs. It was then decided to increase the budgeted units to 40hrs, meaning the remaining resource units/time now changed to 10h/d. Now, the resource is meant to be available for only 8h/d, so a manual bucket entry was done which spread the resource hours to five days i.e.8,8,8,8,8 and this brought the remaining duration in the resource tab to 5d. But I noticed that the activity original and remaining duration is still showing as 4d as per the orginal entry even though the resource assigment has been spread over a 5d period.
I kind of expected the activity duration to change as well but it didn't. I have two questions, (1) Is this alright and could it be because the activity is task dependent and the original/remaining duration will have to be manual amended to 5d to match with the resource spread? (2) Does P6 have different meaning for the remaining duration field? As the remaining duration value in the resource tab is different from the remaining duration column value in the activity table.
Thank you in advance for your professional view and answer on this.