Set Up Alerts for Resource Assignment

The Resource Planning Assignment Alert can be configured to be sent to the assigned resource as well as the assigned resource's supervisor (referenced in Employee Info Center). When the supervisor is selected to receive the alert it will be sent, except when the user making the assignment within the plan is the assignee/employee's supervisor.

If you want the alert to be sent to a small subset of the employees in the database, you can select specific employees with the employee lookup in the alert configuration. When you select specific employees, the individual employee(s) will receive an alert with all of resources assigned or updated when the changes are saved.

In the alert configuration, if Include Utilization is selected for the plan, only plans where the Include in Utilization and Project Reports option (located on the Plan’s General tab) is selected are included in the alert. If the Include Utilization option is not selected, then changes made to any plan are included in the alert.

To set up Resource Assignment alerts, complete the following steps:

  1. From the Vision Navigation menu, click Configuration > General > System Alerts.
  2. In the Folders field on the Alerts Configuration form, select Resource Planning.
  3. From the Alert field, select Resource Assignment.
  4. Select the Active option to enable the alert throughout Vision; if no rules exist for this alert, the Active field is disabled.
  5. Click Options to select an existing alert rule or to create a new rule. If a rule was already assigned to this alert, <options selected> displays in this field.
  6. To remove the option for this alert, delete <options selected>.
  7. Click Save.