1. On the Icon Bar, click the Project button.
2. Click Project Central to expand the menu, then click Resource planning.

Note: Clicking the Project button on the Icon Bar will take you directly to the Summary page of the last work you visited.

• When the Duration, Effort, and % Allocation columns are all visible on a Project Central layout, you can easily determine which is your calculated field. A yellow underline will appear under the calculated value and users can hover over the underlined value to view calculation information. The calculated field can be edited by typing a new value in the field; however, this will change the calculated field to a different field following this order: Duration --> Effort --> % Allocation --> Duration. For example, if % Allocation is your calculated field, and you manually enter a value for that field, Duration will become your calculated field and the Effort value will be updated accordingly.

Note: By default, the % Allocation field is the calculated field for work created using the Create New page. For work that is added to Project Central using the Add Under option, Effort is the default calculated field.

• Duration is calculated by dividing the effort of the item by the % allocation.  In the example above, for Task 1, the effort is 42 hours and the % allocation is 75%, so PowerSteering updates the Duration to 7 days (56 hours) since it is the calculated field.

Note: The maximum work duration allowed by PowerSteering is 10,000 days.

• Effort is calculated by multiplying the duration of the item by the % allocation.  In the example above, for Task 2, the duration is 6 days (48 hours) and the % allocation is 50%, so PowerSteering updates the Effort to 24 hours since it is the calculated field.

• % Allocation is calculated by dividing the effort of the item by the duration.  In the example above, for Task 3, the effort is 24 hours and the duration is 4 days (32 hours), so PowerSteering updates the % allocation to 75% since it is the calculated field.