Project-specific role
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.. index:: Project-specific role usage

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 Project-specific Role usage view:**

- Display of the project's demand for resources in the form of roles for a project.
- Resource allocation from the perspective of roles.
- Project-specific calculation of the usage of every single role.
- Project-specific calculation of the total efforts and total costs of every single
  role.
- Visualisation of the roles assignation in activities.

**You can use the Project-specific Role usage view for the following:**

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

**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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