I have a number of generic resources, eg Engineers, where each individual is treated as interchangeable with all the other Engineers. I want to show their availability as for instance 100% in October (equating to 1 engineer) and 200% in November (ie 2 engineers).
I know how to do this manually in Project via the Resource Information dialog, but I want to import this data from a table in Excel where these values are calculated.
Using this table as an example
Name Max_Units Available_From Available_To
Engineer 100 01/10/2018 31/10/2018
Engineer 200 01/11/2018
If I import this data I was hoping to see one Engineer resource in the Resource Sheet with 2 entries in the Resource Information dialog under Resource Availabioity.
Instead I get 2 resources called Engineer in the Resource Sheet. If I double click on the first entry (the one with 100 units) to see the Resource Information dialog I see the data for the first line in the above table. But if I look at the second entry (the one with 200 units) I see this. Note it shows the wrong dates for Availability.
What I want is 1 resource in the Resource Sheet called Engineer but with his Availability in the Resource Information dialog showing as 100 in October and 200 from 1 November onwards. I know this can be done manually, but how can I import the data to achieve this result? Do I need VBA code? If so any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
Eric