During the early stages of project planning, you assign
profiles and resources to the project. A profile is defined in terms
of skill, experience, competency, and rate. You can later replace
a profile with a resource.
After you create work items, you can assign resources or profiles
to the work items. A resource that is assigned to a project
might not be assigned to a work item. If you unassign a resource at
the project level or remove the user from the project area, the user
cannot access the project artifacts. However, you can access and modify
the removed resource data.
You can discretely assign resources and profiles to a project with
different schedules. For example, you can assign resource A to a project
from January 1 – January 10, and then assign that resource to the
same project from January 15 – January 30. When you run an availability
search for resource A, the availability of that resource is between
January 10 – January 15.
- Assignment: A user is assigned to a project from January 1 – January
10 and January 20 – January 30.
- Result: At the project level, the user's schedule displays
two entries: January 1 – January 10 and January 20 – January 30.
- Assignment: A user is assigned to a project from January 1 – January
10 and January 5 – January 15.
- Result: At the project level, the user's schedule displays
a single entry: January 1 – January 15.
- Assignment: A user is assigned to a project from January 1 – January
10. Later, the user is assigned to a task of the same project from
January 15 – January 20.
- Result: At the project level, the user's schedule displays
two entries: January 1 – January 10 and January 15 – January 20.