2007 - Data Analysis - Actual Work Protected

[clin341]

I think on multiple discussions on this discussion board, people had
indicated that "Actual Work Protected" was more accurate than "Actual Work".
However, I don't see "Actual Work Protected" on the list of fiedls for Data
Analysis. Does anyone know if there is a field that replaced "Actual Work
Protected" or whether there is a better field to use than "Actual Work"?

Thanks,
CLin

 

[ahelp]

Hi Clin,
Actual Work Protected is not migrated to 2007 because the distinction no
longer exists. So you are left with Actual Work as the only option. If you
used managed time periods before migration and had projects that were out of
synch with timesheets, there will be a discrepency between AW & AWP. We
had/have a lot of them. What we've seen is that AW is what is migrated, not
AWP (which makes sense--you wouldn't want to lose the work that was added
manually).

Where there is a difference between 2003 AW & 2007 AW, we've observed a
couple issues:
Work on a summary task sometimes didn't migrate (I know, you're not
supposed to assign to a summary task, but it happens)
Occasionally Work was migrated on a task instead of AW

On one project where there was work on a summary task that didn't migrate,
we demoted the summary tasks to detail tasks (creating new summary tasks
without assignments) and remigrated the project. In the migration, those
detail tasks were marked 100% complete and the Work was migrated. Bizarre!

That was probably more than you were looking for...
Mike

 

[clin341]

Yes, that's what I'm looking for. Thank you.

Hi Clin,
Actual Work Protected is not migrated to 2007 because the distinction no
longer exists. So you are left with Actual Work as the only option. If you
used managed time periods before migration and had projects that were out of
synch with timesheets, there will be a discrepency between AW & AWP. We
had/have a lot of them. What we've seen is that AW is what is migrated, not
AWP (which makes sense--you wouldn't want to lose the work that was added
manually).

Where there is a difference between 2003 AW & 2007 AW, we've observed a
couple issues:
Work on a summary task sometimes didn't migrate (I know, you're not
supposed to assign to a summary task, but it happens)
Occasionally Work was migrated on a task instead of AW

On one project where there was work on a summary task that didn't migrate,
we demoted the summary tasks to detail tasks (creating new summary tasks
without assignments) and remigrated the project. In the migration, those
detail tasks were marked 100% complete and the Work was migrated. Bizarre!

That was probably more than you were looking for...
Mike