Question

Project Resource Scheduling

Hi

The current functionality within BPMOnline for the Projects section is causing major problems for resource scheduling.

We are a professional services delivery company and have a number of engineers we sell their time to customers for installation and consultancy work.

When creating projects and the activities within BPM for our client delivery, we need to be able to clearly and efficiently see what resources are available. For example, if a customer needs 4 consecutive days for a particular service, we may have 8 engineers calendars we need to review to see who is available and when to allocate to this project and task.

The activity calendar when you add multiple users, displays all 8 users activities in the same colour, except for activities with certain priority or age. These may be red for example. Having all of the 8 engineers showing up as the same colour makes it impossible to determine who out of this 8 has such free time to allocate the task to.

Feature Request

User based colour coding on the activity calendar

When adding users, automatically give each a different colour border.

The current use of colour to indicate priority or past due, can be incorporated in another method; Title bar or text colour.

Images attached showing current issues and suggested change

thanks

 

Mark

 

 

 

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Dear Mark,

Thank you for your ideas! I have registered the following suggestion for our R&D team and they will consider implementing the following functionality in the upcoming relases.

Best regards,

Matt

Hi

Has there been any progress on this.

Whether in cases or projects the ability to identify resources (users) and schedule there time and seeing who and when they are available for a booking is essential.

If anyone wants to add their voice to this, please comment to improve resource scheduling capability in BPM.

Mark Roberts,

Dear Mark,

Our R&D team is aware of the following enhancement request and they will work on the implementation of this idea for the upcoming releases, however, there is no ETA for it yet. Currently, you can use marketplace connectors with the similar capabilities, such as:

https://marketplace.bpmonline.com/app/task-control-bpmonline

or

https://marketplace.bpmonline.com/app/advanced-schedule-bpmonline

Best regards,

Matt

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