I was attempting to get a handle on the number of hours assigned to people for a given day. The User Workload Daily view seemed to be my answer.
However, while I was using this feature of the site I ran into a problem. I had two people allocated to a task that starts/ends today for 8 hours. When I looked at the daily view report view it displayed both users having 8 hours due today. I was perplexed I was thinking it would be 4 hours not 8. I thought this may be a feature of the product. It automatically calculates the 8 hour task estimate to each member of the project. So I was mistaken and should have only entered 4 hours as the estimate.
I changed the stimate looked at the project % complete. It showed 200% completed and 8 hours spent. Each person had entered 4 hours on their timesheet. I thought about this some more and realized something just didn't seem right between these two.
Having a task with multiple people allocated to it seems reasonable, but the problem comes into play when they have disporportionate amounds of work. say one is doing 75% of the work while the other is doing 25% of the work. This complicates things further.
It seems as if should enter in the total hours estimate for everyone and then allocate each person a percentage of the time. The Daily workload view should use those percentages and the duration of the task in it's calculations.
The only work-around I can see at this point is to have only one person assigned to a task. This overloads the schedule with redundant tasks.
Overall the product has been easy to use and straight forward. No syntax errors have been encountered; but this one logic error has me perplexed!
Regards...