Audit or Transaction Logs?

[jem]

Hello everyone,

While our organization is learning Project Server Collaboration
functionality, I am getting a lot of questions from users who think that
Project is 'messing up' their schedules. I think the problems are due to
operator errors due to lack of training and understanding of the tool. Any
suggestions on the availability of transaction/audit logs that I could
examine to determine what actually happened within a project? For example,
one team has a project that has actual hours posted all the way through to
the end of the project. They think Project itself did this. Since it is
limited to one project, one task, for one user, I think it must have been
entered that way somewhere along the way. But I don't know what logs to
look at to help research this. We are using PWA for posted actuals.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
jem

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Jem:

It's more likely that the task type and Assignments units is causing the
actual work to be spread across the duration, than it is likely that the
user entered it that way. You are correct that this is due to lack of
training and understanding how Project works. Updates to projects are not
transactional like an accounting database, so auditing can be only be done
at the SQL level. Trust me, you don't want to go there for anything but
troubleshooting.

I suspect the task type in question is Fixed-Duration and the person is
assigned at a very low percentage of units to the task, and entered a
significant amount of work against it. This would explain the behavior
you're seeing. Checkout our projectserverexperts.com site for some on-line
training options.