Cannot update tasks in "My Tasks"

[Jim Erwin]

I am seeing a strange issue in Project Server 2007. For one project
only, users cannot update tasks in My Tasks. None of the tasks are
Closed for Updating. They are published, and visible in PWA. The
reason we noticed is that users will fill out a timesheet, submit it,
then go into My Tasks and "Import Timesheet" and it is not importing
those items. Now here is the kicker - In some weeks, the tasks are
not blocked for updating, but in other weeks they are! I played with
the Fixed Work/Duration/Units, "effort driven"... Couldn't find
anything else that might affect this. Has anyone seen this behavior
before?

 

[piyusha.manish]

I am seeing a strange issue in Project Server 2007.  For one project
only, users cannot update tasks in My Tasks.  None of the tasks are
Closed for Updating.  They are published, and visible in PWA.  The
reason we noticed is that users will fill out a timesheet, submit it,
then go into My Tasks and "Import Timesheet" and it is not importing
those items.  Now here is the kicker - In some weeks, the tasks are
not blocked for updating, but in other weeks they are!  I played with
the Fixed Work/Duration/Units, "effort driven"... Couldn't find
anything else that might affect this.  Has anyone seen this behavior
before?

I am also facing the same issue.Not able to update task in My Tasks
section on pwa 2007.
Please help
Piyusha

 

[piyusha.manish]

I am also facing the same issue.Not able to update task in My Tasks
section on pwa 2007.
Please help
Piyusha

I found the solution
Go to Server settings->Task settings and display-->Uncheck the option
Time Entry by Timesheet only.
It works.
Piyusha

 

[Jim Erwin]

I found the solution
Go to Server settings->Task settings and display-->Uncheck the option
Time Entry by Timesheet only.
It works.
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That might fix part of the problem, but that is not the crux of the
issue. With "Time Entry by Timesheet Only" checked, I can update ANY
task in the whole system except for 4 tasks (all on one project), and
even then it only happens during certain weeks. This week seems to be
ok, but we have a lot of time submitted by resources over the past few
weeks that still won't allow the update, even after that checkbox is
unchecked.

 

[piyusha.manish]

That might fix part of the problem, but that is not the crux of the
issue.  With "Time Entry by Timesheet Only" checked, I can update ANY
task in the whole system except for 4 tasks (all on one project), and
even then it only happens during certain weeks.  This week seems to be
ok, but we have a lot of time submitted by resources over the past few
weeks that still won't allow the update, even after that checkbox is
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Check for the corruptrd tasks in the database
Alternatively open the plan , Insert column --Publish set it to
no,save and publish the project.close it
open the plan again ,set the publish column to yes ,save and publish
Close the plan .hope this helps.
Piyusha

 

[Jim Erwin]

FYI, I did find a solution, but no real answer as to why it happened:
Somehow the GUID for those tasks in question got changed after the
timesheets had been created. I don't know whether the tasks were
deleted and recreated or how this happened, but importing the
timesheet would not import those tasks because it thought those tasks
didn't exist anymore. But this doesn't explain why i couldn't update
the tasks in My Tasks manually...??? Oh well, issue resolved. It was
suggested to me that another possibility is that on the timesheet, the
user might have used "Add Lines" and changed the timesheet
classification to something else and then later on that classification
was deleted from the system (I don't know that there were ever any
other classifications, though).

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

You would be able to update the My Tasks page manually because it always
shows the most current published data, whereas a timesheet can be created,
things can change, and the timesheet ends up containing invalid data.

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