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Resource Group Utilization Window


The Resource Group Utilization window is available only to Resource Administrators and System Administrators holding a Corporate licence.  It displays usage statistics for a specified resource Group.



ENTRY FIELDS AND CHECK BOXES

Use Actual Times   If Actual Times has been enabled in System Preferences, you can check this box to use the actual times, instead of the scheduled times.

Group   The resource group to be analyzed. Click the Down Arrow button to select from a list of all resources.

Include Weekends   If the analysis should include bookings that fall on a weekend, check this box.

Include Special Days   If the analysis should include bookings that fall on special days, check this box.

Start Date   The first day of the period to be analyzed. Use the Calendar button to select a date.

End Date   The end day of the period to be analyzed. Use the Calendar button to select a date.

BUTTONS

Calculate   Calculate the usage statistics as specified.

Print   Print the usage statistics.

SUMMARY TAB

The concept of the resource work day or work hour is central to these statistics.  A resource work day is one resource for one day. If there are three resources in a group, then each week day has three resource work days for that group.
  
Resource Work Days Available   The number of work days in the period times the number of resources in the group. Weekends and special days are not counted unless specified.

Resource Work Days Used   The number of resource work days in the period when the resource was booked at least once.

Percent Days Used   Resource work days used as a percentage of available resource work days.

Resource Work Hours Available   The number of resource work days in the period multiplied by the number of hours in a normal work day as specified in the Update User Preferences window for the user. Hours on weekends and special days are not counted unless specified.

Resource Work Hours Used   The total number of hours the resources in the group were booked between the normal beginning and end of the workday during the specified period.

Percent Hours Used   Resource work hours used as a percentage of available resource work hours.

Total Hours Used   The total number of hours the resources were booked during the specified period regardless of whether the hours were in the normal workday. Weekends and special days are not included unless specified.

Work Day Start   The start of the normal work day as specified in the Update User Preferences window.

Work Day End   The end of the normal workday as specified in the Update User Preferences window.

DETAIL TAB

The Detail tab displays the Total Hours Used, Work Hours Used and the % Utilization of work hours available for each individual resource in the resource group. Scheduling Software home