Clarification Needed: Tracking Method from Actual Hours to % Work Complete

[Mickey]

Hi Everyone,

I need some clarification regarding what happens once the tracking
method is changed from actual hours to % work complete. I realize
that in-progress tasks will keep actual hours as the tracking method.
However, what happens to a task if it has no actual hours recorded
against it yet, but it was already published in the plan when the
tracking method was still actual hours? I don't view this task as an
in-progress task, but maybe I'm defining in-progress incorrectly.

I have encountered some weird situations where tasks that were never
started before are keeping the ability to enter actual hours against
them even though the plans have been republished using % work
complete. Any ideas why it would be doing this and what I will need
to do in order to correct it?

All thoughts and suggestions are welcome....
Thanks,
Mickey

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Mickey,
Have you read the ProjectExperts article about this topic?:
http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/ChangeTrackingMethod.htm

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Mickey]

Yes, I have already done everything in the ProjectExperts article.
However, I think the issue is how my company is defining in-progress
tasks.

I suspect that the Project Managers took old tasks that had actual
hours against them and recycled them by relabeling them which is a
major no-no. As a result, I suspect that Project Server is doing what
it is suppose to do by reading those tasks as in-progress even though
the % work complete was zeroed out by the Project Managers before the
tracking method change occurred.

Any suggestions on how to get those tasks functioning as unstarted
tasks? Please remember that I have no idea which exact tasks the
Project Managers did this with since it would have been done without
my knowledge. Unfortunately, my management does not want to involve
the Project Managers in the cleanup process and I am being held
responsible for cleaning this up on the back-end. Is it possible to
clean this up without wiping out the actual hours that were logged on
the old tasks prior to the tracking method change?

All thoughts and suggestions are appreciated....
Thanks,
Mickey