[jlharmon]

I too am looking for flexibility between effort and duration. I have a team that works about 25% of their time on projects, when I use duration to actually cover the time/duration it will take to get the task done, hour will populate automatically. What this means is that I want to complete a 4 hour task in three days, however to keep this task duration realistic for my delivery time line my resource shows being allocated at the 25% or 2 hrs a day or 6 hours for the task. This means that if they work on another task in the same time frame (duration) they will be over allocated in the resource view. This defeats the purpose of a quick resource view (green/red) visual indicators.