Acceptance of Task Updates and Change Highlighting

[chrisbanker]

We have been attempting to get the Project 2007 change highlighting
feature to work together with progress updates. What we would like to
see is that after you select click "here" to apply updates to the
schedule - the changes are applied to the schedule and changes are
highlighted.

The behavior we have seen to date:

1) Through Project Web Access the project does not open and changes
are applied - so no highlighting is possible.
2) Saying "Yes" to the task update message when the schedule is opened
in Project Professional. After preview, when the "click here to apply
updates to the schedule" is selected - updates are applied but there
is no change highlighting when the schecule comes up.
3) Saying "No" to the task update message and allowing the project to
open as normal in Project Professional. Then select the "Collaborate
- Update Project Progress". After the preview - when the "click here
to apply updates to the schedule" is selected - Project puts up a
message box saying that the changes will be applied, schedule closed,
and re-opened - no change highlighting is available.

From these scenarios - it appears that Project requires a save and/or

close when updates are applied - so that change highlighting cannot be
utilized.

Is there something that I have missed - or is the "preview changes"
window your best option for reviewing schedule impacts when accepting
task updates...

Thank you.

 

[Ben Howard]

Preview changes is your best option, unless, off the top of my head, you save
a copy of the plan before you apply the changes, and then use the compare
project plan tool... Never tried it, so couldn't comment even it if works in
this scenario.