Disabling Warning Message?

[Anthony]

Is there a way to disable the warning message that tells you that your
project contains inactive resources who are suppose to be logging time? We
imported an existing project plan and because we are rolling this out in
phases, we are inactivating accounts for people until their team is ready to
track time. Everytime I log in to approve time, it shows the warning message
and I have to click OK. It seems to do this for each task I approve when it
updates the project plan. This will be a pain when I have to approve 50+
tasks because I don't want to hit OK 50 times when I approve the actuals.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Anthony --

You are definitely NOT using the Inactive resource option properly. You
should reserve this for resources who have left the company, but should not
use it to prevent people from entering time in PWA. Your incorrect use of
this option is the cause of your repeated warning messages.

Instead, I would first recommend that you reset all resources to Active in
the Enterprise Resource Pool, and then save and close the pool. Then, to
prevent people from entering time on their PWA timesheet for projects, do
the following in each project in the system:

1. Click Tools - Build Team from Enterprise
2. Set the Booking value to Proposed for each resource that should not
report time yet
3. Click OK

When you publish the assignments in a project, people whose Booking type
value is set to Proposed will not see the tasks on their PWA timesheet.
When you are ready for them to begin time reporting in a project, change the
Booking value to Committed and then publish New and Changed Assignments.
Hope this helps.

 

[Anthony]

Dale,
I understand what you are saying. Will this work even if people are already
assigned to tasks and have some existing actuals? Since we are rolling this
out team by team, we want to prevent people from logging time to tasks
because the tasks need to be cleaned up first. Because we are importing a
project in progress, some tasks already contain actuals. Thanks for all your
help with my recent questions. This forum has been huge resource to me.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Anthony --

This works on a project by project basis, whether historic actuals are
present in the project or not. If you set someone to Proposed in a project,
that person will not see their tasks in the PWA timesheet until you change
them to Committed and publish New and Changed Assignments. Hope this helps.

 

[Anthony]

OK. Another thing, when I change a resource from inactive to active in the
enterprise resource pool, i get an error saying "Project Server was unable to
process the request. An invalid Node name parameter was specified". We are
using SP1 with Project 2003 client. I can do it from the Admin page, but with
all the prompts, its a pain in the butt.

Thanks

 

[Anthony]

Nevermind. Did some googling and downloaded SP2 for Project Pro 2003. It
works now