Administrative Projects -

[PG]

Dale Howard wrote:

"For what purpose would you want to use administrative projects? If you want
to do so to capture nonworking time such as vacation and sick leave, then
you should be aware that using an admin project for this purpose WILL NOT
cause Project Server to automatically reschedule project work around those
nonworking time periods. If you want Project Server to automatically
reschedule project work around nonworking time periods, you must enter the
nonworking time on each resource's personal calendar in the Enterprise
Resource Pool."

Could you please clarify:

1. Use of an administrative project to enter non-working time will not
change the effort driven schedule therefore does not help in a project plan?

2. Would you then use a "normal project" that looks like an administrative
project to do the same?

3. You suggest modify each resources' calendar. Is there a clean way to do
this so that we could delegate non-working time decisions like vacation, etc
to the resource themselves for maintenance?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

PG --

1. If you use an Administrative project in Project Server 2003 to track
nonworking time, such as vacation and sick leave, the system will not
reschedule project work around the non-working time. If you want the system
to reschedule project work around non-working time, you must enter the
non-working time on the resource's calendar in the Enterprise Resource Pool.

2. If you use a normal project that functions like an Administrative
project, doing so will still not cause the system to reschedule project work
around the non-working time. If you want the system to reschedule project
work around non-working time, you must enter the non-working time on the
resource's calendar in the Enterprise Resource Pool.

3. There is currently no automated way for resources to enter their own
non-working time in the Enterprise Resource Pool. Therefore, you must
establish a process of some type whereby the resource (or their manager)
sends an e-mail to the Project Server administrator, asking him/her to enter
the non-working time in the Enterprise Resource Pool.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Doesn't Project Professional's resource leveling take into account all open
projects?
So when teh admin project is open same time as the "active" project, won't
leveling schedule the tasks around the active tasks?

Or does the use of server prohibit leveling altogether?

 

[PG]

Thanks for the clarity. Suppose i were willing to take the time to
accomplish this in dot net c# for example. I have looked at the ERD from MS
but it does not look like the enterprise version. I have looked at PDS to see
if their are methods there to manipulate calendards but i didn't find any.

Where would i find sufficient documentation to understand the db structure
and semantics sufficient to start into this?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

PG --

You can find the Project Server 2003 database schema at the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...75-1367-4b66-870d-f280c054efe2&DisplayLang=en

Hope this helps.