Enterprise Status and Finish Date different than Project Info

[Ray Powers]

Enterprise will be the death of me, I have decided.

Ok, I have a project published in Enterprise called Mail Confirmation System
Rewrite. It's a very small project and has a whole seven tasks in it with a
linear dependency system, and no external dependencies assigned.

In it is Task 2, Design New Database Requirements, to be done by a gentleman
named Paul R.. This task was due to be completed on 3/24/05 and indeed is set
to 100% complete and 100% Work Complete. It was republished this morning to
make sure I had no synch issues.

Now, In enterprise I go to Resource Center, and I have want to see overdue
tasks, so I filter by % Complete < 100% and Finish <= 04/11/05 and filter.

In the Resource Center report, under Paul R, I see:

Design new System Requirements Mail Confirmation System
Rewrite 3/4/2005 3/24/2005 30% Paul R.

I have no idea where the 30% is coming from. Any ideas? Its a completed
task. I also have seen dates that are wrong on this report versus what is in
the actual project file. I *THINK* that the date differentials are due to the
Resource Center view not taking into account inter-project dependencies, but
if anyone has some insight into this one as well, I'd appreciate it.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Ray --

How are task updates being entered into this project?

1. Is Paul R. entering his progress in his PWA timesheet and then
submitting the updates to you for approval?
2. Or are you manually entering this information into the actual Microsoft
Project plan?

If you are doing #1, at the end of the update process you must publish the
latest project changes by clicking Collaborate - Publish - All Information.
If you are doing #2, after manually entering the numbers in the project plan
you must click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments, select the
"Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option, and click OK to "push"
your manually entered values to PWA. Hope this helps.

 

[Ray Powers]

How are task updates being entered into this project?

1. Is Paul R. entering his progress in his PWA timesheet and then
submitting the updates to you for approval?
2. Or are you manually entering this information into the actual Microsoft
Project plan?

Number 2. Keep in mind that no user is entering Timesheet info yet. All
updates are done in Project by me right now.

If you are doing #1, at the end of the update process you must publish the
latest project changes by clicking Collaborate - Publish - All Information.
If you are doing #2, after manually entering the numbers in the project plan
you must click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments, select the
"Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option, and click OK to "push"
your manually entered values to PWA. Hope this helps.

That did work, thank you, although I am still confused why Collaborate -
Publish - All information did not do the same thing since there was nothing
to overwrite. Paul did not have access to the web site, let alone the ability
to enter in any actual work on his own.

Thank you though, I will adopt the process of doing Republish instead of
Publish All.

Any ideas on why the dates would be different in the second part I described?

Ray

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Ray --

Here's the key: if you are entering task updates directly in the Microsoft
Project plan, then you must click Collaborate - Publish - Republish
Assignments to "push" the assignment information to PWA. If team members
enter actuals in PWA and then you update the actuals into the Microsoft
Project plan, you simply need to click Collaborate - Publish - All
Information. Hope this helps.

 

[Balaji]

Dear all,

I am facing a problem in project server 2007. the scenario is the same. i
have created a new project using the project professional 2007. After
creating the project i made some assignment for the resources. They have
entered the timesheet in the project web access. After that i have approve
the efforts made against the project. After approving the timesheet in the

1) File >> Click Save
2) File >> Click publish.

Then i went to the project center in the Tracking Task view still %Complete
and Actual work is not updated.

please this is some what urgent for piloting purpose. Thanks in Advance.