Good afternoon,
I am working on adding resources to our resource groups. I found one resource that was added to a group incorrectly. Since it has been in there a while, I can’t delete the resource.
I get an error saying: Delete not allowed. Referenced by at least one Labor Transaction
Our jobs only request a resource group, we let the scheduling engine choose the resource.
My thought was to inactivate this old resource, but when I did that, the scheduling engine still assigns jobs to the resource. Did I misinterpret the meaning of inactive? Is there another way to tell the scheduling engine not to schedule this resource? Or is there a way to delete this resource? I think labor was charged against it in error, as the resource is not one that we normally use. If I could locate the labor entry, then in theory I could delete or change it, and then I could delete this old resource, right?
You can’t delete a resource once referenced but you can move it. (See Move Resource… button on right of Finite Horizon). Move the resource to the correct group or create an Obsolete RG and move it there.
I love that move resource button. First I setup all my resources in a temporary group, then moved them to the right group when I was ready. However, I can’t move this outdated resource, as there is at least one job that has now scheduled it. Is there a way to unscheduled everything, so that I can move that resource, then regen capacity, and run global scheduling again?
Do you know how many jobs that resource is currently scheduled on? If not many, remove those jobs from the schedule, move the resource, then reschedule them - hopefully with the correct resource.
Well it wasn’t scheduled for many jobs until I reran global scheduling with the resource set to inactive. I assumed that would not allow the resource to be scheduled. Now I think there are hundreds of jobs that have pulled in that resource. Too many to manually fix. Thankfully it is in pilot, so I can restore my original schedule/jobs. That will take the epicor team a day or so.
