actual work appears out of nowhere

[Ben Goldberg]

So I'm working in my plan and suddenly a gap appears that
I can't account for. So I go into the Resource Usage view
and look at Actual Work in the right pane and somehow
there are now values there for future dates. I click on
them and hit delete to zero them out, but every once in a
while they reappear. What could make this happen? I am
using project server and I thought that was causing this
somehow, but it's happened twice in the past hour and I
haven't done any synchronization with the server in this
time.

I think there's a ghost in my plan

Ben

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Ben,
Are you sure that your ghost didn't click on the Updated as Scheduled button
in the Tracking tool bar ?
;-)

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Ben Goldberg]

Nope - absolutely not. And this happens fairly regularly.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Could you check if these tasks with an Actual work have not also an Actual
Finish date. May be an Actual finish has been entered by mistake somewhere ?

Gérard Ducouret

"Ben Goldberg" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message
de Nope - absolutely not. And this happens fairly regularly.

 

[Joe]

Somthing very similar happens to me also. makes sure this
task casuing you problems is not finished or has actual
hours that is before the start date of the linked task.
Sounds confusuing, but think about it. If task A must
finish before task b, (which means task a has a start date
before task b's start date) Make sure you don't have
actual hours recorded in task b that is before task a's
start date. This casued a lot of problems for me.
In other works,

 

[Scott McClure]

We've seen something like this as well. We enter our actual hours worked on
the resource usage sheet (not the timesheet on PWA). Occasionally it simply
moves some of the hours forward. One explanation offered is that we have
entered more total work for a given resource than the colander says we
should without telling the system we have planned some overtime for the day.
System says "you can't have worked that much -- I don't believe you so I'll
put it into the future where you obviously must 'have done' this work."
Great solution, eh?

We're still chasing this kind of thing but that might be a small clue.

Scott