Approval Rules in 2007

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Phyl

I have setup rules to approve certain tasks that I receive but is there a
report, a view or something that I can look at to tell me what has been
updated or changed in the project?

Thanks in advance.
 
D

Dale Howard [MVP]

Phyl --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question, do
the following:

1. Log into PWA.
2. Navigate to the Task Updates page.
3. Click the Go To pick list menu and choose the Applied Requests and
Errors item.

The Applied Task Update Requests and Errors page shows you your history of
accepted and rejected task updates. I do not believe it will tell you which
updates the Rules accepted and which ones you manually accepted, however.

As an aside, I do not personally recommend using Rules in PWA. You are the
"gate keeper" between your team members and the Microsoft Project plan. If
you manually approve task updates, you have a chance to keep "dirty data"
out of the Microsoft Project plan. When you use Rules, the system bypasses
you as the "gate keeper" and pushes the updates into the Microsoft Project
plan, even if the update includes "dirty data." Once approved by a Rule,
there is no "undo" option to roll back the update. Just a thought. Hope
this helps.
 
P

Projectability

Phyl,

Dales advice is sound and can avoid significant problems however if you have
updated a project with suspect data from your team members there is always
the Administrative restore option, assuming you have this enabled within the
Database Administration section of the Server Settings Admin console in
Project Web Access.

I always reccomend setting this up at the outset and having several versions
of the project retained should you need to roll back to a last "good"
versionn of your project.

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