In this webinar, we are going to explore project task scheduling in Dynamics 365 PSA and the customizations for Project task entity to be scheduled on Schedule board.
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5. Problem Definition
• PSA doesn’t allows scheduling on Project Task OOB.
• PM’s are used to allocate resources on a Task.
6. Configuration changes to be done
• Enable the Project Task entity for scheduling
• Creation of views on below entities
• Bookable Resource Booking
• Resource Requirement
• Schedule board changes
7. What does the Plugin do?
• Create/Update Resource Requirement record for Project Task with below
fields
o Name (Project Task Name)
o Role
o Start Date
o End Date
o Duration
o Project
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The most complicated part post planning the WBS for a PM is allocation.
Typically project managers allocate team members on the tasks they are supposed to perform.
These tasks are from WBS that is pr epared while planning the project.
With PSA it is slight different. We do not allocate resource on to a project tasks, but, book them for a certain duration on to the project under certain role.
Though this normal behaviour can be tweaked to suit the normal needs of a PM. We need to take in slight efforts to do the following to attain allocation of resources at task level.
Yes Kuldeep we have done customization by developing plugin which is Post Operation Plugin on Project Task Entity
Functionality of plugin to create record of Resource Requirement whenever new Project Task is created in WBS on Project.
Data from Project Task entity is saved on Resource Requirement from fields like
Name (Project Task Name)
Role
Start Date
End Date
Duration
Project
This Plugin is also triggered on Update of Project Task on WBS for fields like if user changes Project Task Name or Duration or Role.
This is simple plugin with only 2 methods
CreateResourceRequirement - create Res Req. Record with populating data from Project Task
UpdateResourceRequirement - update Res Req. record with updated fields