Request to be able to turn off default of 100% allocation

Cathy Salscheider

This new functionality will not work for us and will cause us to have to update every row:

"Starting at the end of August 2024, new rows added with astart date, end date, and contact field in sheets connected to ResourceManagement by Smartsheet or with workload tracking enabled will automatically default to a 100% allocation."

Being a smaller healthcare IT organization, many resources that we use are shared. We never have a project where are resources are 100% dedicated to one project. In additional to project work,our teams also do operational support. And when we work with clinical staff, it is very rare that they can dedicate much time to a project. So, we routinely run tasks that take longer, but may only be set at 20% allocation. We will have some tasks that are at 100% allocation.

With this change, it means that it will be very easy to make a mistake when making assignments and allocations, as instead of being blank, a value is defaulted in. Esp when setting up new projects where all of the allocations haven't been determined yet, it will be hard to know which ones were set up by the PM and which ones just hadn't been decided yet.

The only way I can see to use this is to manually remove the allocation each time a task is created. This will be a problem and extra effort.

PLEASE, set this new functionality up with an option to disable it!!!

Cathy Salscheider

I am now using this daily and really hate the default! Please provide an option to turn the default off!