Leveling Settings Section of the Leveling Report Log

Overview

Use this section to view the configuration of various leveling settings. All fields are read-only.

Screen Elements

Preserve scheduled early and late dates option

Determines whether early and late dates are preserved as scheduled or adjusted during the leveling process.

If you mark this option, the project's current early dates are retained before leveling. When you preserve these dates, the module only forward-levels the schedule, which means that the early dates of activities from the start to the finish of the project are scheduled.

If you clear this option, the application also performs backward leveling. Backward leveling schedules activities to occur as late as possible without delaying the project finish. The application reverses the leveling process, beginning at the project's late finish and working towards the beginning of the project. If insufficient resources are available to schedule an activity on its late dates, the activity is advanced to an earlier date. When the schedule is leveled forward and backward (by clearing the option) the project's early and late start/finish dates are updated.

Level resources only within activity total float option

Determines whether to delay activities with resource conflicts only up to their late dates (late finish when based on finish float, late start when based on start float).

Minimum preserved float field

The minimum amount of float maintained for each activity during leveling.

Maximum percent to over allocate resources field

The maximum percentage by which resource availability can be increased.

You can make adjustments to this field value each time you level resources. For example, if an important resource assignment does not fit within the available float using your first over allocation limit, you can try again using a higher limit.

Consider assignments in closed projects option

Determines whether the assignments contained in closed projects will be considered when leveling.

Consider closed projects with Priority equal/higher than field

Determines which closed projects, based on their priority level, will be considered when leveling.

Level all resources option

Determines whether to level all the resources within the project.

Priorities section

The priorities assigned to the leveler.

Leveling priorities are assigned in the Leveling Priorities table of the Level Resource dialog box.

Getting Here

Click Projects.
On the Projects navigation bar, click Activities.
On the Activities page, click the Actions menu and select Run Leveler... (Shift+F9).
In the Level Resources dialog box, click the Options tab.
On the Options tab, select the Display leveling log upon completion and click Level.
In the Leveling Report Log, expand the Leveling Settings section.

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