Material type resources unimplemented

Submitted by Rainer Koenig

Description

Please describe the problem: The goal is to manage a small computer test lab with planner. Minimum setup is a resource "manpower" and a resource "laboratory space". If create a new task "testing" which means that a machine is going under test.

I expect that the test will take me one workday of effort. So the task is entered with a workload of 1 day. Then I assign resources: "Laboratory space" is occupied for 100% until the task is completed "Manpower" is only available at 10% since I have other things to do as well.

Steps to reproduce:

Create new project
Create ressources "manpower" (work) and "laboratory space" material
Create task "testing" and assing 100% laboratory space and 10% work to it.
See the Gantt chart

Actual results: The Gantt chart shows that the task is finished in one day duration.

Expected results: Since the manwpower to fulfill the task is only available at 10% I would have expected the task to have a duration of 10 days. That's also what happens if I assign the 10% manpower only, but if I assign the laboratory space at 100% the task duration is calculated based only on the 100% of laboratory space.

Does this happen every time? Yes.

Other information: The question is, which concept of resources is implemented. My concept was that I have a resource "laboratory" space that is sort of binary, if a machine is tested then the assigned space is occupied 100% until the task is finished and I need to have an overview about how many instances of "laboratory space" are free at a certain moment. Am I expecting too much from planner?

Version: 0.13