Assign activities to an employee in the view Employee
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.. index:: Assign activities to an employee in the view Employee

**Important!** A project schedule, which includes activities and the
employees required in the resource pool should already been set up.

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

- Select the view **Start > Resource views > Employee**.
- Select the menu item **Start > Edit > Filter**.
  
The dialogue box **Filter** opens.
   
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- Remove the tick from the check box **Offer only used resources for
  selection** to view all employees from the resource pool in the list.
- You can mark the check box **Employees** and transfer all employees
  to the view Employee workload.
  **Alternatively** you can mark only selected employees.
- Click on the button **OK**.
- Select the employee which you want to assign activities to in the
  table of the view Employee workload.
  The tab **Activities** in the window Resource properties lists
  activities from the project schedule.

**Tip** If an employee has several roles, the activity will be shown
as many times as the number of roles the employee has.
For instance, Mr Ordentlich can work as mechanic, which
means all activities will be listed twice, so as to allow him to be
assigned to one activity under several roles.
   
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- Mark the check boxes of the activities.
- Among others, you can define the **employee workload** 
  for an activity.
- Mark the check boxes of the activities.
- 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 Employee
and column Date, you will only receive the displayed activities that were
defined for this particular time period.

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