I have read various comments here and elsewhere as to how to set task type, enter work, assign resource and let the code calculate the duration. I have tried to follow the instructions. Still I am driven barking mad by seemingly errratic calculations of duration, addition of levelling offsets and the like. Could some knowledgeable soul please write down the rules, the very algorithms, by which work, durations, assignment levels and the like are calculated, so I, and others like me, even to the extent of a history of coding in assembler and Fortran, can understand how to trick the clever software into doing what is wanted?
Alternatively, please provide a switch 'idiot mode ON/OFF' so the cleverness can be switched off, work and assignments entered and duration calculated strictly as work/resource, no bells, no whistles.
Thankyou.
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I have read various comments here and elsewhere as to how to set task type, enter work, assign resource and let the code calculate the duration. I have tried to follow the instructions. Still I am driven barking mad by seemingly errratic calculations of duration, addition of levelling offsets and the like. Could some knowledgeable soul please write down the rules, the very algorithms, by which work, durations, assignment levels and the like are calculated, so I, and others like me, even to the extent of a history of coding in assembler and Fortran, can understand how to trick the clever software into doing what is wanted?
Alternatively, please provide a switch 'idiot mode ON/OFF' so the cleverness can be switched off, work and assignments entered and duration calculated strictly as work/resource, no bells, no whistles.
Thankyou.