My issue is that of achieving accurate costing. I need to schedule a resource (equipment and people) that are charged at a day rate, however each resource may be assigned numerous tasks in a single day. Regardless of whether the resource works a single hour or is utilised for the whole day the same rate applies. The issue that I have is I cannot get MS Project (2013) to 1) apply a single unit of the day rate total if there are ranging hours worked in a single day, and 2) achieving 1) while having several separate tasks in a single day for the one resource i.e. it would ideal to have the day rate applied the once at the initial task for the day.
By way of example: The Resource is John. He will work on Task 1, and Task 2 at March 1st, and Task 3 and Task 4 at March 2nd. John will be within the nominal 8 hour working day – as per default in MS Project – however tasks 1 & 2 are two hours while tasks 3 & 4 are three hours each and a single day rate is charged irrespective of working a ‘full’ (eight hour day).
Ideally, I would like to set-up the schedule so that I could easily alter some duration and the respective changes (flowing into the next day/week/hitch etc), occur automatically and correctly, as it is common that I have over 1,000 rows of tasks in each project. I envisage that I need a macro to achieve the above and my script skills are non-existent. Help please….