| The Resource Graph is a view on its own, but it's best used as the lower pane of a combination view. It shows a bar chart of the allocation of the resources selected in the upper pane, or of the resources assigned to a task that's selected in the upper pane. This makes gauging the extent of a resource's overallocation easier. Displaying the Resource Graph - Click View, Task Usage.
- Click Window, Split to show the lower pane.
- The lower pane appears with the Task Form.
- Click somewhere in the Task Form.
- Click View, Resource Graph to show the Resource Graph.
- The name shown is the name of the first resource assigned to the selected task.
- The black line shows the Max Units value of the resource.
- Red sections show the amount of the overallocation.
- Scroll to the right using the scrollbar below the key to view the graph for the next resource assigned to the selected task.
- You can now see Sean's graph.
Changing the Graphed Field - Right-click anywhere in the Resource Graph to show the context menu.
- The graph defaults to Peak Units.
- Choose the desired field to graph. For this example, we will pick Overallocation.
- Notice that the graph only shows bars for time periods in which the resource has an overallocation.
- The bar shows the number of hours over the Max Units value the resource is for the time period.
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