Assign activities to an employee in the Human resource capacity planning
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.. index:: Assign activities to an employee in the Human resource capacity planning

**Important!** You should already have the following completed:

- Set up employees in the resource pool and describe them with roles.
- Assign the roles to the activities.

**In order to assign activities to employees, do the following:**

1. Select the menu item **Start > Capacity views > Employee**.
2. Mark **unhide employees** in the **Human resource capacity planning** to display employees.
3. Select the employee who you want to assign activities to. The tab **Activities** in the window 
   Resource properties lists activities from the project schedule.

**Tip** If you have the option **Activities with matching role only**
activated, the employees will be offered only activities, which this
role has been assigned.
   
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4. Mark the check boxes of the activities.
5. Among others, you can define the **employee workload** for an activity.
6. Mark the check boxes of the corresponding activities.
7. Click on the button **OK**.

**Employee properties during assignation**

During the assignation you can refine role properties by controlling and
defining the following values for each activity:

- Readiness of an employee
- Availability of an employee
- Productivity of an employee
- Workload of an employee
- Absence of an employee
- Effort of an employee
- Notes concerning an employee.

**Activity selection**

During the assignation you can determine the activity list by
activating /deactivating the following options:

- **Assigned activities only** lists only assigned activities.
- **Activities with matching role only** is important for employee
  assignation. It lists only activities, to which a role executed by an
  employee, has already been assigned.

**Activities at a specific date**

You can filter activities that are due at a specific date.
If you leftclick on a cell showing the result from the row Resource
and column Date, you will only receive the displayed activities that were
defined for this particular time period.

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