Display Summary Tasks in My Tasks View

[anovak]

Is this possible? I can't seem to find "Task Summary Name" in the
"My Assignments" view within Manage Views. It is not unusual to have
work packages within different summary tasks that have the same name
(e.g., same task for different modules) and having the "Task Summary
Name" column available could sure clear up what you are looking for.

To me, this is a huge shortcoming of My Tasks in PWA if this isn't
possible.

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Andy --

No, there's no way to display summary tasks in the My Tasks view. But, a
new feature in the latest update for Project Server 2007 allows team members
to float their mouse pointer over the name of a task, click the resulting
pick list arrow, and then select the Task Path item on the list. The system
opens a dialog that displays the complete task path. This works around the
limitation fairly nicely. Hope this helps.

 

[anovak]

Andy --

No, there's no way to display summary tasks in the My Tasks view. But, a
new feature in the latest update for Project Server 2007 allows team members
to float their mouse pointer over the name of a task, click the resulting
pick list arrow, and then select the Task Path item on the list. The system
opens a dialog that displays the complete task path. This works around the
limitation fairly nicely. Hope this helps.

Thanks Dale. Yeah, I just saw that in a new Infrastructure Update
Release document. To be quite honest, I think just having the Task
Summary as a column would be a MUCH better feature - but you can't
have everything I guess.

 

[Aric Katz = Katsoft]

I have developed some utilities for project server 2003 and 2007
one of them is adding the sammury tasks to the "my tasks" view
see if that can interest you:
http://www.katsoft.co.il

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Andy:

You might also want to check out Marc Soester's blog. He posted a solution
for this not too long ago.

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