How to associate a resource with a task

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1. How to associate a resource with a task
   1. Introduction
   2. How to associate a resource with a task

How to associate a resource with a task

Introduction

You can assign resources or roles to individual tasks within your process diagram. Assigning a resource to a task enables you to capture in your diagram any costs and timetables already associated with that resource.

The tasks in your diagrams are often performed by resources that you have defined in your model. Rather than recalculating costs and availability for each task in your model, you can assign resources that you have already defined to individual tasks. Any cost, timetable, or other attribute that you have specified for that resource is automatically captured in the process diagram, enabling you to accurately model how much each task costs in employee wages, for example, or how long it will take a task to be completed based on the availability of a particular business machine. Previously in this tutorial, you created a resource to represent an employee of Quickstart Finance, Kim Lee. You added attributes to that resource, and then defined a role, costs, and timetable for that resource. You can now associate the Kim Lee resource, and by extension the attributes, role, costs and timetable that you defined for that resource, to any task in your process diagram.

How to associate a resource with a task

To associate the Kim Lee resource to a task in your Loan Application (As Is) process, complete the following steps:

Step 1

1. In the diagram, click the Review Loan Application task to select it.
2. In the Attributes view, click the Resources tab.
3. Expand the Individual resource requirements section and then click the Add button. Note that you might have to scroll to view the Individual resource requirements section.
4. Click the Individual resource field to select it, and then click the button in the field.

Step 2

In the tree, select the Kim Lee resource, and then click OK.

Step 3

1. Click the Time required field to select it, and then click the button in the field.
2. In the Minutes field, type 30.
3. Click OK. This value indicates that the resource is required for 30 minutes to complete the task. (Remember that you previously specified that the task takes 30 minutes to complete.)
4. Click File > Save.