Editing actual hours in resource usage view?

[Jo]

Using Project 2003...

A Team Member accidentally entered actuals on Sunday. The
Project Manager moved those hours to Monday by using the
Resource Usage view in Professional - he put 0 on Sunday
and the 4 hours on Monday, then saved and published. This
doesn't show up for the user in his timesheet view. (We do
*not* have Adjust Actuals or View Adjust Actuals allowed
in PWA.) Should this have worked? What did the Project
Manager actually do, if the changed hours aren't showing
up in PWA?

Thanks
--Jo

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Jo:

Your PM did half the work involved and exactly where it should be done. Good
work. Now, tell your PM to open the project and select the affected task,
then choose Collaborate > Publish > Republish assignments. In the resulting
dialog, choose selected tasks in the drop down at the top, and check the box
that says overwrite actual work in the lower portion of the dialog. This
action will push the change to the users timesheet.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Devendra Bhagat]

But there seems to be some problem while doing this. If there are more than
one resource assigned to the task and you adjust the actuals and republish
by overwriting the actual work, then it retains the actual work which was
adjusted but reduces the actual work reported by the other resource to 0

Devendra

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Devendra:

Use the resource usage view and select the specific assignment. Then follow
a similar action path.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Jo]

Gary,
Thank you!! I think the PM just did Publish > New and
Changed, rather than Publish > Republish - and neither of
us realized the checkbox at the bottom existed for
overwriting actual hours. That appears to do exactly what
we want.
--Jo

P.S. We also discovered that, since we're not using
managed time periods, the TM is able to edit his own
hours. Probably should've tried that first...