Best Practice for use of Status Manager

[RQ]

PS2007
We recently decided to add Status Managers to a plan previously managed by
one person. The original practice was for the single Status/Project manager
to update the Actual Finish date for tasks in MS Project Pro once approved by
them.

We realized that if we have Status Managers assigned to individual tasks who
do not have Project Pro but just use PWA to approve/reject tasks - the Actual
Finish date cannot be updated since the single project manager does not know
what it is or when the tasks were approved.

Questions are -
1) Is there a way for the Actual Finish date to be updated based on the Date
the task is approved automatically?
2) Are there other options for automatically updating the Actual Finish date
to the real date that we should try?
3) Is the intention for each Status Manager to have Project Pro and be
manipulating the project plan along with the original Project manager? This
seems like it could cause problems with the plan if 10+ people are in the
plan managing tasks so we were trying to have one primary project manager.

Thanks
RQ

 

[Paul Conroy]

If it's your intention to only have one PM per plan, then having other users
updating/approving any aspect of the plan is contradictory to your
requirements.

Each status manager should have project pro if they are to approve and
publish task updates.

Having said that the link below provides the details of some custom code
which automatically publishes accepted updates.

http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/arch...tes-get-published-in-project-server-2007.aspx
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