Accepting Actual Hours Not Posted

[moe]

my project plan has quite a few tasks – assigned to Bangalore resources –
where no actual have been entered into EPM. Because of this, the project
plan is showing as behind schedule . . .when it really isn’t the case.

I can easily 0 out the remaining hours for those tasks and change the
publish column to ‘No’ – but then those hours will never be reflected and
we’ll show as very under budget (not necessarily a good thing).

Is there some way for me to have the hours updated so that actual hours =
planned hours and then accept the actual hours into the plan (without
expecting the Bangalore resources to do this)?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

You could....

1) Open the file in Microsoft Project
2) Confirm that in Tools > Options > Calculations you have the Updating Task
Status Updates Resource Status option toggled to "On."
2) Filter for or select the tasks in question.
3) Set the % Complete to 100%.

That will update the tasks as currently scheduled, which will show them all
on budget (or whatever the current calculation is).

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm