From the course: OmniPlan 3 Essential Training
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Set units and efficiency - OmniPlan Tutorial
From the course: OmniPlan 3 Essential Training
Set units and efficiency
- Setting the units and the efficiency for a resource is one way that OmniPlan helps you manage how long tasks will take to be completed. I'm basically where we left off, and I'm here in Resource View. So if you're in one of the different views, go ahead and click over to Resource View now. Here in Resources View, go ahead and click on any of the resources, but the one I have in mind is Admin. And you see, I click right on that dot to highlight the Admin. Our Admin actually splits his time between overhead work and specific projects like this one. So the way that translates in OmniPlan is over in the Resource Inspector, so I've selected Admin and I've moved over here to Resource Inspector, and now I get all the details. So what Units says is if only half of the time, or units, days, hours in the week, those are units, of a person's time is devoted to this project, we would say that they are only on 50% of their available units. And Efficiency is similar, that is, if Units has to do…
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