Resource Assignment is front loading the hours

[Karlie]

We have started using Resource Assignment and we have noticed the hours are being front loaded. The resource plan says even but when we look at the hours of the resource assignment it is only putting hours in the first 2 weeks of the month and then last 2 weeks are empty, and then it starts back up the next month. Why would it be front loading and not evenly spreading it? 

[Karlie]

I will take a look at that property. However it is happening when our plans are weekly. We will have a weekly plan that has a long date range, and it puts hours in the first 2 weeks of the month, skips the last 2 weeks of the month.

[dileepsingiredd]

@Karlie the pattern that you mentioned shouldn't be occuring for Weekly assignments. Please check the assignment record. 

Moreover, as mentioned to you on the case, the logic for monthly assignments is being modified in Q2-2025 release to spread the hours across all the weeks on a month.

[Michelle Murtha]

Thank you, @dileepsingiredd - you clarified that the property com.snc.resource_management.allocation_interval_minutes is the minimum increment the system will allow for daily forecasting.  Thus, if you only request 4 hours across 10 days and your property is set to 1 hr (60 mins), then it would only allocate for 4 days because the 5th-10th day have no unallocated hours to apply to.

I think you are saying that if you set it to 6 mins, in the case of 4 hrs across 10 days, the system would split it evenly across the 10 days, 24 mins each day...  Which makes sense to me.

[Namita Mishra]

Hi @Michelle Murtha ,

Please do remember that as you decrease the interval, there may be performance issue when the duration spans across several months.

@dileepsingiredd , please confirm if this is still correct?

Thank You!

Namita Mishra

[dileepsingiredd]

@NamK With the introduction of resource assingments, we have optimized the code, peroformance shouldn't be a concern now with lower values. 

In fact, in a future release, we are planning to support decimal values in this property.