Resource Staffing to a Project Role - Few queries :)

[Former Member]

Hi,

There is a Newly created project role. Now the role needs to be assigned with the project task and also a resource needs to be staffed to the Project role.

The role creation, task assignment are going good as per the defined processes. But I am finding difficulty to staff the resources to the role. On searching the resources (please note I have not mentioned any criteria in qualification) I am getting a list of resources but on staffing them neither of them is having the availability.

My questions are..

1) Are there any validity dates (for staffing) for the resources which are defined as the Busienss Partner in the BP T Code.

2) On creataing a new Buseinss Partner in the BP and searching the same while staffing it does not show it. (Guess it can have some batch-job for updates as per requireement). Please suggest my guess is right or not.

3) Do we have any functionality in cProjects wherein based on role requirement (with its availability dates) we can explore the number of resources which can be staffed with their availability dates. (I guess it is similar to the qualification criteria match functionality, but please note I have not used the qualification in my test case here).

Please suggest. Full points for the correct and useful answer.

Regards,

Nishit

[Former Member]

Hi Nishit,

1. I dont think there is any validity period explicity defined for BPs. The Business Partners can be staffed if they are not 'blocked'.

2. Ensure that you create BPs with Employee role.There is no batch job update required if you have created BPs in the same system.

3. Yes. This is possible. Check out the Resource Search Functionality in cProjects. Availability can be set as a desired search criteria there. You can maintain the BP availability in the t-code RPM_EMPDATA.

Regards,

Vivek