GanttProject as a resource planning tool

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I am trying to use GanttProject as a resource management/planning tool, and wonder if this is worthwhile exploring.

We have around 25 projects running in our company, and around 10 members of staff. A resource might work on a project for 2 days, then jump to another project, then come back to the previous task in a week or so.

I therefore want to ‘block in’ days when the resource is working on a particular project so I can plan their days for them, and so that they can see what they should be working on.

Is this possible?

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I am not sure that I understand what is “block in”.

come back to the previous task in a week or so.

I am not sure that you really meant that, but anyway, resource assignment to some particular task In GanttProject assumes that a resource works on that task from start to the end without interruptions.

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e.g. Fred works on 2 projects, Project A and Project B.

He works on Project A on Mon, Tues and Friday
He works on Project B on Wed and Thurs

Would I essentially need to create a new task for Project A to run on Friday?

I assume so.

If anyone could think of something (ideally open source or free) to enable this sort of simple project management, it would be appreciated.

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Have you already tried to install and use it? I see no problem in your use case.
A task for each day for each resource. Summary tasks for Project.
Resource view to check overload.
So…?