[Planner Dev] Dev suggestions

["Polar Finnish" <hrmanswer hotmail com>]

Hello

I'm new to planner so mabye this functionallity alread exists somewhere, so 
please bare with me.

The thing I was missing, although a rudiment is implemented in the calendar, 
 is how to treat resource constraints. I will clearify with some examples.

How do I plan a person who is available 30% january-june then 0% july 75% 
august-december.
- The only way I found out was to edit every day in the calendar. Not very 
effective ;-)

How do I plan an aircraft, 100 % available in may, but with the constraint 
that I only have a certain amount of money for fuel.
- The only way I found out was a post-it note and a brain (not always 
available though).

So my sugestions are the following.
1) Make the calendar easyer to use on per week and per month basis. Day to 
day basis is to fine
    grained. Also add the possibility to use percentage instead of working 
hours.
2) Add the possibility to add finacial constraints on resources/tasks and 
projects.
3) It would be really nice to be able to import/export the calendars in i.e. 
vCalendar format.

Why do I want these changes?
1) In bigger organisations usually you're not interested in whom is doing 
what on an hour basis, it's more common to think in percentage availibility 
on week or month basis.
2) Sometimes you have several fundings, and some are wery dedicated to 
certain resources/tasks and projects.
3) It would be nice to be able to syncronize with other calendarsystems.

Got to go. Bye.

/PF

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