Hello, for our resource forecasting we’ve been requesting/assigning Placeholder (i.e $Config) resources prior to assigning to a specific resource. Since they are a Placeholder and don’t have actual Capacity, we’ve zeroed out their capacity via the Placeholder’s calendar. However, now we cannot request/assign the Placeholder because AW processes it as an actual user with no availability. The reason we zeroed out the Placeholder resource’s capacity is because it was skewing the metrics in capacity planning, making it look like we had additional team member availability/capacity when it was really just a placeholder.

Does anyone have advice on how to request/assign a Placeholder resource without a Placeholder’s capacity getting counted into Capacity Planning?