Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual

Adding More Resource Information

The resource fields you change most often appear in the table in Resource Sheet view, so you might never have to give up the convenience and familiarity of entering values in table cells. Besides, if you have other resource fields that you always fill in, then you can insert those columns in the resource table (Changing a Table’s Contents). This section describes additional resource fields you might want to use and how to specify their values.

Tip

If you don’t want to change Resource Sheet view’s table, use the Resource Information dialog box instead. It contains all the resource fields you can set, and it’s the only easy way to add a few of the more intricate resource settings.

Resource Sheet view (View→Resource Sheet) shows the fields most project managers fill in: name, resource type, initials, and workgroup. In the Resource Information dialog box (Resource→Information), the General tab, shown in Figure 8-9, includes these fields and a few more.

Figure 8-9. If the table in Resource Sheet view doesn’t show all the fields you want, then the General tab of the Resource Information dialog box is the next place to look. If you don’t work with costs, you might not have to venture beyond the General tab.

Filling in Other Resource Fields

Here are the additional resource fields (found on the Resource Information dialog box’s General tab) that you might want to ...