The Level Resources property of each task may be on or off. This property determines whether the task is considered when computing the resource's workload.
If a task does not level resources, then the scheduler will start the task as soon as dependency and constraint values allow, regardless of how many other tasks the resource may be working on at the time.
Tasks that level resources are handled differently. The scheduler will schedule these tasks at the earliest time when the resource is not working on other resource levelling tasks, and, of course dependency and constraint values allow. (If the percentage allocation of the resource is less than 100 percent, the task is scheduled at the earliest time that the resource has sufficient availability to accomodate the task.)
Since the level resources property may be set on or off individually for each task, one may freely mix tasks that level resources with tasks that do not.
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