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About the Effort Task

Sometimes, you do not need to track what resources are working on at a detailed task assignment level. However, you can still track resource allocation and provide a way for your team to log time. The product provides a system setting that allows you to staff a project without needing to define detailed task assignments. Your Clarity administrator can select the project management setting "Allow Effort Task Creation". When this option is selected, the product automatically creates an effort task in the following situations:

The product automatically assigns the newly added staff team members to the effort task with ETC hours based on their team allocation. The team members can log time against the effort task on their timesheets.

To prevent the automatic creation of the effort task, create one non-key task before adding any team members to the project.

More information:

Define the Default Project Management Settings