Merlin – Do a bit of Magic in Reports – Part XVII

Those of you who have checked our new post series about “Merlin report templates” know by now…

Now let’s do some magic with the reports.


Resources Time allocation to various tasks and subtasks

If you would like to report time allocation of your resources onto tasks and subtasks of your project, this is a custom report template to use.

It lists all tasks and subtasks of your project with expected or actual work and also a distribution of work to assigned resources.

You may check contained ‘MERTimeAllocation.py’, “MERTimeAllocation.wbl” to see how we ask for all task rows with hierarchy, iterate in master resources, collect their planned or actual work to cumulate those values for activity groups, how we convert them to working days and finally output them for the report.  Feel free to modify this custom report further as you require for your needs.

An output sample:

And the report options: Continue reading