Understand Resources
Understanding Resources
Use the Resource view and Resource Properties dialog to create and edit resources. Resources are for example employees, equipment and materials that are necessary for Activities in projects.
Types of resources you can create
Permanent resources are resources that can be used on further Activities after they have finished the work on others. As soon as a resource is no longer needed for an activity, it is available for another Activity. These are mainly employees, workers or equipment.
Consumable resources are mainly materials built in the project.
Component Resources may consist of several permanent and consumable resources
As soon as resources have been created, they can be allocated to Activities. These allocations represent employees, equipment or material necessary for completing an activity. The use of individual resources can be graphically displayed using Histograms or Resource Profiles. By creating resource allocations, you can identify times with too much or too little allocation.
Ways to access
In the Tilos Explorer, expand Library > Resources and Accounts > Resources. Double-click an existing resource or click the Add on Main Level icon to create a new one.
Options
You can manage your resource library as a list of names or with hierarchical personnel, equipment and materials.
To add new resources click the icon 'Add On Main Level' , to add subordinate resources Click 'Add Sub Resource'.
To delete selected entries of the listed resources Click 'Delete'. To open and edit the properties of a resource Click 'Properties'.
Exchanging Data with other Programs
Use your computer's clipboard to exchange data types from this list with other programs and vice versa. See Export via the Clipboard and Import via the Clipboard for more information.
Import/export using the clipboard
Click either:
Export to Clipboard – Use this to copy all of the data in the list to your computer's clipboard to make it available to paste into other programs, such as Microsoft Excel for MS Project, Asta Powerproject, and Primavera:
First, click Export to Clipboard, check/uncheck boxes for all of the fields you want to include/exclude in the Fields for Clipboard Import/Export dialog, and change the Column Numbers and Column Letters to re-arrange the order of the exported columns.
Review the Clipboard preview at the bottom of the pane to see the order and fields that are ready for export and click OK.
Finally, paste from the clipboard into MS Excel or a similar tabular program by clicking in a cell and Clicking Control + V.
Import from Clipboard – Use this to copy all of the data on your computer's clipboard to the open Tilos list.
First, copy from MS Excel or a similar tabular program to the clipboard by selecting data types you need in Tilos and Clicking Control + C.
With one of the Project Data or Library lists open in Tilos, click Import from Clipboard, check/uncheck boxes for all of the fields you want to include/exclude in the import in the Fields for Clipboard Import/Export dialog, and change the Column Numbers or Column Letters to re-arrange the order of the imported columns.
Review the Clipboard preview at the bottom of the pane to see the order and fields that are ready for import and click OK. The data is pasted into your open Tilos list.
These fields can be exported/imported:
Resource, Resource name, Resource ID, Operation, Model, Unit, Operation, Value, Type, Unit cost, Currency, Import action, and Import run number