deleted vs deactivated resources

[BTOjohn]

Hi All,

I'm working on MSP + Server 2003 SP2.

My organisation has several people on short term contracts, that often
return to do further work. So when one contract is completed, I deactivate
them, so I can reactivate them if they return. By we also have staff leave
the organisation all together, and I've simply been deactivating them for the
time being. Since both of these categories of people remain in ongoing
projects until they are completed, I tend to get quite a lot of 0x8c040012
errors when PMs publish those projects.

I know that if I clean up the resource pool, and delete certain enterprise
resources, they will remain in projects as local resources, and a record of
their actuals with therefore be kept. However, in the global permissions, I
have denied anyone permission to create accounts. So, surely if I delete the
Enterprise Resources, I will end up with loads of 0x8c040017 errors?

Does anyone out there have a good solution to this, or a nice protocol to
follow for keeping on top of the ERP?

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

BTOJohn --

When you delete a resource from the system using the Clean Up Project Server
Database feature, the system deletes the resource from the Enterprise
Resource Pool, removes the user account for the resource in PWA, and
converts the deleted resource to a local resource in each project. In
addition, when it converts the resource to a local resource in each project,
it ALSO sets the Workgroup value to None for that local resource, which will
eliminate any "The manager cannot create the resource account (0x8c040017)"
errors that you fear. Hope this helps.

 

[Kellie]

Dale,
Similar situation, I have to resoures w/accepted time "stuck" in my my
update view. They both show task that have been accepted, they do not clear
my view once updated. Is there a way I can remove them or can the resource
do something?

Thanks,
Kellie