Assign an availability to a requirement

When assigning an availability to a requirement, you can set which availability must be assigned to which skill and how much availability must be assigned to that skill.
  1. Choose Capacity Management > Planning Cells in the Navigation Pane.
  2. Select the planning cell.
  3. Choose the tab Planning in the Data Pane.
  4. Use a time filter to select the desired period.
  5. Select one or more requirements of the same skill in the requirements pane.
  6. Right-click the selection and choose Assign To Skill Requirement in the shortcut menu.
  7. Where applicable, in the option group Employee, uncheck the following filters:
    • Only show skills that can be executed by the selected employees
    • Only show skills with remaining requirements
  8. Select the skill to which the availability must be assigned.
  9. Choose one of the following options:
    OptionExplanation
    Use max ... % of the remaining availability This allows you to limit the assignment of availability to a percentage of the remaining availability as determined by you.
    Use max ... % of the total availability This allows you to limit the assignment of availability to a percentage of the total availability as determined by you.
    Assign ... FTE This allows you to assign (parts of) FTEs of the requirement to the employee(s).
  10. Where applicable, check one of the following options:
    OptionExplanation
    Allow to assign more than available If checked, more can be assigned than the availability of the employee would allow. If more is assigned than the employee is available, an anomaly appears and the availability is by default displayed in red. See Set the visualization of the availabilities.
    Automatically replace the employee's current assignments If checked, the assignments that were already present will be cleared and replaced with new assignments.
  11. Click Finish.