Enterprise Project Management

[Robert]

We are occasionally getting descrepancies between project and project web
access. Task that are complete in the project plan still show as open in web
access or sometime vice versa. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Our project managers are publishing new and changed assignments after every
modification to the project plan. However, I notice that sometimes after I
update my timesheet, accept the change in project, then go to Collaborate -->
Publish --> Publish new and changed assignments, it tells me there are no new
assignments to publish. So I end up using the Collaborate --> Publish -->
Republish assignments. Is this necessary?

 

[Chris Marriott]

Hi Robert

Which service pack if any have you applied?

This can be a complex subject but projects saved to the project server prior
to the appication of service pack 1 can behave in strange ways after the
service pack has been applied.

On your last point - there is no need to re-publish your plan after updating
from updating from the web access client - Project will not find anything to
publish.
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Regards


Chris Marriott
UK - EPM Consultant & Trainer

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Robert --

In the future, please post all Project Server questions to the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is devoted to
questions about the Microsoft Project desktop application only.

To answer your question, if the PM manually enters progress in the actual
Microsoft Project plan, he/she must do the following to "push" the changes
to each user's timesheet in PWA:

1. Click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments
2. Select the "Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option
3. Click OK

Hope this helps.