Does resource planning capacity use historical data for the past?

Flow Production Tracking
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Question, given that a person’s “% capacity” could change over time, is that change reflected in the output from the Resource Planning page when graphing out a time frame that includes the past?

For example if we had a single theoretical artist “Fred”, and Fred’s “% capacity” was set to 0% on Jan 1st and then set to 100% on Feb 1st, and I graphed out our capacity from Jan 1st to Feb 28th in Resource Planning - would I see a line that stays at 0% until Feb 1st and then jumps to 100%?

Thanks!

Laurence

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Answering my own question in case someone else looks for this. It appears that the “% capacity” field is not calculated over time, and the current setting applies to all time.

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Hi @laurenceC
I believe the capacity value is aimed as more of a roll definition than something that is scheduled over time. That said, if you leverage bookings on a person (on a project or leave) it does impact their capacity value and those are scheduled items

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Thanks Pete, looks like we need to use bookings to reflect this. We have situations where roles change for people as projects change, so calculating capacity becomes tricky.

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I think the capacity field is more aimed at level of experience.

I.e. a Junior Modeller may be capacity 50% where a Senior is 100%.
You may also have people in the studio that consistently overproduce where their capacity is above 100%.