Administrative time committed vs planned

[Sheri]

We are about to start using Administrative time instead of Time-off projects.
The question I have received is when you click on the button to Plan
Administrative Time, there is a row for committed and a row for planned.
I've told my team to enter their desired time off in the planned field, but
what and when is the committed row used for?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Sheri --

I recommend that people use the Planned line for future planned
Administrative time, such as for vacation, and use the Committed line for
past Administrative time already used, such as for sick leave. Hope this
helps.

 

[David Ducolon]

Dale is correct.

Planned will work like the scheduled time in any MSP task. so use this for
planning future time away. Committed is when users have taken the time off
and are reporting it.

the reporting DB only has one row for this so there is a formula as to what
data is taken.

When "in progress" - planned hours are sent to the Reporting DB unless there
is a committed value and 0 planned to not get transfered either.

When "submitted" - only the committed values are taken to the reporting db.

The thought is that you might report to be out of the office for 40 hours
but then work calls and you end up working say 2 hours each day. you then
should report committed of 6 hrs per day not 8 and that will affect your
schedule in retrospect.

Hope this helps.

Dave
www.projectserverexplained.com

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

David --

Thanks for following up on my reply, confirming my answer as correct, and
giving new information I did not know!

 

[Matt Ryno]

Do you know where in the reporting database the committed and planned hours are stored?

We are about to start using Administrative time instead of Time-off projects.
The question I have received is when you click on the button to Plan
Administrative Time, there is a row for committed and a row for planned.
I have told my team to enter their desired time off in the planned field, but
what and when is the committed row used for?

On Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:41 AM Dale Howard [MVP] wrote:
Sheri --

I recommend that people use the Planned line for future planned
Administrative time, such as for vacation, and use the Committed line for
past Administrative time already used, such as for sick leave. Hope this
helps.