Grouping "My Tasks"

[jeffhoward001]

Hello -

My PS2007 end-resources have a very basic request that I was floored to find
is not an option (at least not with the built-in views). Keep in mind this
is from the perspective of an end-resource (e.g. Dev, Network Tech,
Operational Support, etc, someone without access to edit the project in MS
Project Pro):

When viewing "My Work" -> "My Tasks", it presents the data in a flat list,
grouped by Project. This is fine if you have resources spread across several
projects with only a few tasks per project. However this view is obnoxious
if a resource has 40+ tasks associated with a project.

We use Project Server to manage fairly large projects, and not uncommon for
a resource to have 30, 40, 50+ tasks assigned. After realizing that the My
Assignments view was pretty limited, I modified the Project views, only to
find that resources are unable to click through the "Project" views to edit
the task info.

That doesn't make much sense to my unless I'm missing something obvious.
You would think the resources would be able to either A) see the summary task
grouping in their "My Tasks" view, or B) "click through" a tasks to edit the
task details from a Project view.

Am I missing something?

 

[Paul Conroy]

Hi Jeff,

Have you applied the infrastructure update dated 15 Jul 08? There was a lot
of work done by Microsoft around the My Task functionality (grouping, task
path, timephased views etc)

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Hi Jeff,

I hear what you are saying and agree that My Tasks could have a little more
functionality when it comes to "organising your tasks". What I hear again and
again is "why cant I have my summary tasks in this view", simply because some
subtasks may be called the same name. I truly hope that MS addresses these
issues in the next release. Having said this, as Paul suggested, there are
some new features available in the Infrastructure Update that you may want to
have a look at. ( Sorry not the summary tasks )

Hope this helps