As projects progress, the project manager might want to get a real-time view of his resources' work loads based on actual approved time. This report provides visibility of free resources & helps the PM adjust allocations to ensure optimal resource utilization.

This report is a dynamic report that displays the Free hours for resources (resource row) and real-time estimated hours based on actual-approved hours and remaining work at the task and project rows. For past dates, the free hours are based on the actual-approved hours, whereas for present & future dates, the remaining work is computed real-time and spread proportional to the resource's availability.

Lets take an example:

A resource Arnold is assigned to a task 'Project KickOff'

Task Schedule: From 11th to 13th in a month i.e 3 days
Allocation: 50%
Work: 12h (Work)

So, the allocation for Arnold (Hours (Est)) will be divided across the planned dates for the task according to availability and allocation (50%) which is as follows:

11th	12th	13th
4	4	4

Arnold fills time-entry of 4 hours for 11th. Today is 12th, 12 PM. This is reflected on 11th (past) for that task row. The remaining effort for the task is now (12 - 4) = 8 hours, which will be spread over today and future duration of the task proportional to Arnold's availability.

As 4 hours of Arnold's working time today has already elapsed (regular working times: 8 AM-5 PM), the remaining available hours for today is 4 and for next day is 8. So, Arnold's remaining availability is 12 h to complete the 8 h of remaining work over the remaining duration of the task.
Today(at 12:00 PM), Arnold will have to do 2.7 h of work, i.e For 8 hours of remaining work, Arnold is available for 12 hours. So, how much work should he do for 4 hours of availability? (8*4)/12=2.7

And remaining 5.3h (8-2.7) is for 13th.

So, for Arnold, remaining availability (free hours) for the dates is as follows:

11th (past)	12th (present)	13th (future)
4 (8-4 approved hours)	2.7 (8-5.3)	5.3 (8-2.7)

If a task is completed before schedule (i.e. %Complete = 100%) then the remaining work (if any) will not be spread over the future duration of the task.

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