Consumable Resource Properties dialog - Assignment tab

You use the Assignment tab of the Consumable Resource Properties dialog to view and maintain default resource modelling details for the selected consumable resource. These defaults are applied to each allocation of the resource, and you can amend them for each individual allocation. The fields that are available on this tab depend on the type of resource modelling that you select: some fields only apply to certain types of resource modelling.

You can also specify whether allocations of the resource should use the resource or task calendar by default, whether the resource is consumed by or supplied to tasks by default and whether the costs and income relating to this resource are excluded from any task cost calculations, including any roll-up costs on parent tasks. This may be useful if the cost or income is accounted for elsewhere in the project.

You also use this tab to specify whether the quantity values of allocations of this resource should be constant throughout the duration of the allocation or whether they should vary, being calculated using a resource curve. If you want to assign a resource curve to allocations of this resource by default, you select the resource curve on this tab.

Explanation of the fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Modelling type	Select the default modelling type for allocations of the consumable resource. Modelling consumable resources
Quantity	Enter the default quantity to allocate. This field is disabled if Quantity is the Calculated parameter or if you are using the Quantity From Task modelling method.
Task conversion factor	When using the Quantity From Task modelling method, enter the quantity of the resource that is consumed or supplied per unit of work on a task by default, and select 'Multiply' in the field to the right. For example, in a project to refurbish a hotel, it may take 4 litres of paint to paint each room, so the task conversion factor would be 4. If you are using this resource to schedule logistics, enter the amount of the task work material that can be carried in the logistics resource and select 'Divide' or 'Divide and Round' in the field to the right. For example, if a Concrete Mixer Lorry resource has a capacity of 10m³ of concrete, enter '10.00' in this field. Quantity From Task modelled consumable resources Scheduling logistics using Quantity From Task modelled resources
Rate type	Specify whether the Consumption rate is calculated as time units per unit (for example hours per carpet tile) or units per time unit (for example carpet tiles per hour).
Consumption rate	Enter the default amount of time (for example 1 hour per circuit board) or the amount of resource (for example 1 circuit board per hour). This field is disabled if Rate is the Calculated parameter.
Duration	Specify the default duration over which allocations of the resource are consumed. This field is disabled if Duration is the Calculated parameter.
Delay	Specify any delay to apply by default to allocations of the resource. For example, you may not want paint to be consumed until 2 days after the start of tasks.
Calculated parameter	Specify whether you want the duration, quantity or rate of allocations to be calculated by default. The field that relates to the option you select in this field is disabled on the dialog.
Balancing	Specify whether you want Asta Powerproject to adjust the quantity or rate by default when you resize allocations by dragging in the bar chart. Select None to fix the allocations and prevent them from changing.
Use task calendar	Select this check box to specify that allocations of the resource should use the calendars of the tasks to which they are assigned, or clear the check box to apply the resource's calendar to the allocations. When resources and costs have different calendars
Consumed	Select this check box to specify that allocations of the resource are consumed by tasks, or clear the check box to specify that they are supplied to tasks. Consumable resources are normally consumed by the task to which they are assigned, but they can be supplied. For example, a consumable resource of Bricks would be consumed, or used, by a Bricklaying task. A consumable resource of Cables would be supplied to a Cable Delivery task.
Allocate proportionally	Select this check box to specify that allocations of the resource should be calculated to be the same duration as the tasks to which they are assigned, or clear the check box to determine the allocations' duration using resource modelling information.
Lead resource	As an alternative to colouring tasks according to the codes that are assigned to them, you can configure Asta Powerproject to colour them with the appearance of the lead resource that is assigned to them. Select this check box to specify that the resource should be considered the lead resource when it is assigned to tasks. If you select this check box, the Lead resource check box will be selected by default on the Details tab of the allocation's properties dialog and tasks to which this resource is assigned will be displayed with the same appearance as this resource, if you choose to colour tasks according to the appearance of their lead resource. Setting task display options
Accounted for elsewhere	Select this check box to exclude the allocations' completed costs from any task cost calculations, including roll-up costs on parent tasks, or clear the check box to include the costs in such calculations.
Linear	Click this radio button to specify that allocations of the resource should be flat - linear - ie that quantity values should remain constant throughout the duration of the resource's allocations.
Resource curve	Click this radio button to specify that the quantity values for allocations of the resource should not be constant throughout the duration of the allocations, but that they should be calculated using a resource curve. Select the resource curve to apply to allocations of the resource in the field to the right of the radio button; click to view and maintain details of the resource curve.
Zero duration appearance	For each resource, you can specify a milestone appearance to apply by default to zero duration allocations - ie milestones. You may want to apply a different milestone appearance to each resource to help differentiate between the zero duration allocations of different resources. Select the shape to apply to zero duration allocations of the resource by default. If you select a different milestone appearance in this field, a dialog appears asking if you want to update all existing allocations of this resource to use the new milestone appearance, or to leave existing allocations unchanged.

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