Resource and profile assignments

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.

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