Creating assignments and planning out work in Runn is easy. After adding a person to a project on the Planner, simply click into the timeline to choose the start date, then drag your mouse across the planner to create an assignment for that person.  

Under the Month or Quarter view, the minimum unit you are adding an assignment is one day.

When you're in the Half or Year view, assignments are created for an entire week by default, making it really quick and easy to plan out weekly work and sprints.
Click into the cell on the Planner and hit enter to save the assignment with the default settings or make edits on the quick editor then save.

When you create or click to edit an assignment on the Planner, Runn shows you a quick editor so you can review and change assignment details, including the hours per day and the overall duration of the assignment. 

From here you can also change an assignment from billable to non-billable, add a note, or open the calendar.

The Effort field defaults to your employee's working hours, which you set-up in their employment contract. See Managing employment contracts. 

You can choose among the following units:

Unit on Assignment:

People can have assignments of up to 24 hours per day or 1FTE.

Placeholders have no time limit on the number of hours per day.

Working days is the duration of your assignment, excluding weekends and time off. 

Use the up and down arrows next to the working days field to lengthen or shorten the assignment by one day. Alternatively, type a number into the field to update the duration of the assignment from the start date.

Changing the number of working days of an assignment updates the total hours (total effort), but won't affect the hours per day (effort).

The total effort of an assignment are the hours per day, multiplied by the working days. 

You can update the hours per day using hours:minutes format, or decimal format, e.g. 7:30 and 7.5 both mean 7 hours and 30 minutes. 

Changing the total hours of an assignment updates the Hours per day (effort) but won't affect the Working days.

Our calculations on Effort and Total Effort are based on the unit 'Hours per day', calculated down to minutes per day (we round to the nearest minute and do not display seconds).

Formula when entering Effort:

Effort in Hours per day * Work Days = Total Effort

Work Days = calendar days - weekends - public holidays

Public Holidays exclude scheduled leave and rostered days off

When you enter the Effort to multiply across the available Work Days, you might notice an adjustment in the Total Effort. This adjustment depends on the number of available Work Days in the chosen period.

For scheduled leave and rostered days off, Runn will automatically split assignments into separate parts: before and after the leave or day off.

Formula when entering Total Effort:

Total Effort in hours / Work Days = Effort

When you enter the total effort to divide across the available Work Days, you might notice an adjustment in the total hours. This adjustment depends on the number of available Work Days in the chosen period.

If you have created phases for the project, select the project phase that the assignment corresponds to. See Project Phases for more information.

Tick this box to make the assignment non-billable. For more information, and the difference between billable and non-billable assignments, see Managing non-billable work. 

Deletes the assignment, including notes. 

Only applicable when creating a new assignment. Select how often the assignment will repeat, and what date the repetition will end or after how many repetitions.

Expand to add notes to assignments. See Assignment notes 

Click the calendar icon to open the calendar for more scheduling long-term assignments that span over several months.