Actual Start and Physical % Comp. on My Tasks

[Kevin Slane]

I've been asked to set up the My Tasks page to allow the resources to enter
an Actual Start date and Physical % Comp. on their tasks. So far, the
Physical %Complete seems to be working fine at that level, but the Actual
Start date does not. I can enter data in that field, but I can't see
anything when I look at the Task Usage view in the project file. What step
am I missing?

Thanks!

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Hmmm, are you also asking them to enter % Complete? I believe there's an
issue where the Actual Start will not get recorded if % Complete = 0. You'll
see Actual Start in the Approval page, but it won't get imported into Project.

If that is indeed the issue, the way I've seen it solved is to create a new
field called Actual_Start. Then have your resources enter Assignment level
data. You'll need to write a macro to roll up the Actual_Start data from
the Assignment level to the Task level.

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

 

[Kevin Slane]

Thank you, Andrew. That's what it was.

Hmmm, are you also asking them to enter % Complete? I believe there's an
issue where the Actual Start will not get recorded if % Complete = 0. You'll
see Actual Start in the Approval page, but it won't get imported into Project.

If that is indeed the issue, the way I've seen it solved is to create a new
field called Actual_Start. Then have your resources enter Assignment level
data. You'll need to write a macro to roll up the Actual_Start data from
the Assignment level to the Task level.

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



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