Hello,
I am investigating a difference in Resource Assignment behavior between Yokohama and Zurich releases in Project Workspace.
In our Yokohama environment, when assigning effort to a task that spans multiple weeks, the effort is automatically distributed across the planned weeks.
For example:
- Task duration: approximately 4 weeks
- Effort: 6 hours
The weekly allocation is displayed as:
- Week 1: 2 hours
- Week 2: 1 hour
- Week 3: 3 hours
- Week 4: 0 hours
Similarly, if the effort is set to 4 hours, the allocation becomes:
- Week 1: 2 hours
- Week 2: 0 hours
- Week 3: 2 hours
- Week 4: 0 hours
The allocation appears to be distributed automatically across the task duration.
However, in our Zurich environment, using a task with a similar multi-week duration and 6 hours of effort, all 6 hours are allocated to the first planned week, with no distribution across subsequent weeks.
Example:
- Task duration: multiple weeks
- Effort: 6 hours
Result:
- Week 1: 6 hours
- Week 2+: 0 hours
My questions are:
- Is the distributed allocation behavior in Yokohama an expected product behavior?
- Is there a configuration that controls how effort is spread across planned weeks?
- Has the resource allocation logic changed between Yokohama and Zurich?
- Is this related to Allocation Spread Type, Resource Schedule, or another setting?
Any information about documented behavior or release-related changes would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
