Material Resource - Access to calendar et timesheet/work

Hello,

We have just upgraded to version 10.4.2 and we have started to use the Material Resources. It's a great addition but we have a couple of questions.

Calendar: When a material resource is created, a calendar is automatically assigned to it. How can we change it?
The calendar is located in the “Other” tab (Divers in french) according to the screen customization plugin. This tab is hidden by default. But when I uncheck the "hide" option, the tab stays hidden. We are using the v6.6 of the plugin.
I should also mention that the following message is displayed when we open the screen customization for the Material Resources:

Certaines customisations d'écran ne sont pas cohérentes :
- Ressources Matérielles
Veuillez accéder à chacun de ces écrans sur le plugin de customisation (la version 6.3 ou supérieure est requise)

Work and Timesheet: We haven’t figured out how to reduce the work left for the material resource.
For example, if a human resource and a material resource are assigned to an activity, the work left for the material resource does not decrease when the human resource registers some real work in its timesheet, even if it's linked to material resource.

Thanks for your help
Cedric


 

Hello Babynus,

Thank you for your replies.

I'm looking forward to having a way to automatically reduce the work left on a material resource. 
I imagine that changing the work left when the linked human resource enters real work could be a solution. However, in that case, it would be great to be able to link multiple human resources to a material resource (including a pool) and to select which resource must be assigned to an activity alongside the material instead of having all linked resources automatically assigned.

Regarding the calendar, I'm not sur to understand your answer. Will we be able to change the calendar in 10.4.3? 
I hope we will because the calendar is automatically selected when a new material resource is created. The software selects the first in the list. This caused us some troubles because the first calendar was for resources at 80% (4d/week). I had to change the name of the default calendar (5d/week) to place it at the top of the calendar list and recreate the material resource.
For some material resources, we need a 7d/week calendar. For now, the only week possible is to create a human resource, change the calendar and then transform it into a material resource.

Best regards
Cedric