Role
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.. index:: Role

You can structure role usage by clicking the menu item 
**Start > Outline > Structure** using the following criteria:

- Role -> Project
- Project -> Role

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**Applications for the Role usage view:**

-  Display of the project's demand for roles in the project.
-  Ressource allocation from the perspective of roles.
-  Calculation of the usage of every single role.
-  Calculation of the total efforts and total costs of every single
   role.
-  Calculation of the FTE of every single role.   
-  Visualisation of the roles allocation in activities.

**You can use the Role usage view for the following:**

- Assign selected activities to a role.
- Analyse the role usage by means of filter settings.
- Change the timescale.
- Quick access to the resource pool.

**Additional columns in the table**

To switch on additional columns in the table, click the Tab format for a selected view.

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**Context menu in the Role usage view**

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-  **Show maximum usage per unit of the time** – the maximum required number of
   personnel resources for each of the roles / qualifications per day,
   week, etc.
-  **Show average usage per unit of the time** – the average required number of
   personnel resources for each of the roles / qualifications per day,
   week, etc.
-  **Show effort per unit of the time** – planned effort in employee hours (or
   employee days, respectively) per day, week, etc.

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