Resource management based on project-level allocations?

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Hello community,

Using the Workload widget in a dashboard allows me to see if some of my team members are over-allocated in a given time period. But that is based on assigned tasks in the respective project boards.

I’ve been trying to find a way, though, to visualize workload based on maximum time allocations at the project level. For example. Alice is working on three projects, and each individual project board has a Workload widget that specifies her capacity for that project, let’s say 4, 8, and 16 hours weekly respectively. I want my dashboard Workload widget to combine those capacity numbers and give me that 28-hour number against a total weekly capacity of 40. Is this possible? Or, is there another way to see this?

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Hey Vika!

While you won’t be able to add up the hours exactly as you described, I’m wondering if perhaps utilizing a formula column in the “effort” setting of the Workload widget could be a good alternative!

You could enter these capacities (4, 8, 16, etc) in numbers columns on a board and add them in a formula column and then select this formula column in the Workload widget.

What do you think about this idea? Let me know your thoughts and we can go from there! :blush: