How do I change assignment owner on tasks where owner name is grayed out?

[hmhart]

I need to change the assignment owner of a bunch of tasks from one resource
to another, but the assignment owner column is grayed out.

The assignments in question are local resources.
The previous owner is a resource ID being removed from the system, but is
still active until we can remove everything.
The to-be owner is the project manager.

What happened:
1. If I add an "assignment owner" column to a task view, those specific to
the local resources are grayed out and cannot be changed.
2. If I open the task information --> resources tab, the drop down arrow is
grayed out and the entry in the line above the resources. So no change can
be made there.
3. I made one of the local resources an enterprise resource (all of these
should have been added as enterprise). I used the "replace" function to
replace the local with the enterprise resource by the same name.
4. Same problem with the assignment owner column in a task view.
5. Different in the task information --> resources tab: I would click the
dropdown for the name, then the "resource owner" field would blank out. But
I could not enter anything in that field. At this point, I did not save the
task changes, nor did I save the project for fear of ruining it. (It belongs
to a project manager.)

I do have full access to the Project Server databases and can perform
repairs at that level if that is the only place. But with the extreme
interconnection of everything, I won't do that on my own.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mac Hart
Software Engineer
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

hmhart --

First of all, local resources cannot have an Assignment Owner value. Local
resources do not use PWA to report progress, thus, the Assignment Owner
field cannot be edited. For enterprise resources, you can change the
Assignment Owner value by navigating to the Task Usage view and inserting
the Assignment Owner field. The Assignment Owner field specifies who sees
the task in his/her My Tasks page in PWA and reports progress on the task.
Organizations can use this field to set up a "proxy" who reports progress on
behalf of team members, such as a departmental administrative assistant who
reports progress for all of the engineers in her department. Hope this
helps.

 

[hmhart]

Thanks for your reply. I am going to try your suggestion and see if that
works. On the other local resources, I will leave them as they are for now.

We used the assignment owner column in a task usage view, but were blocked.
But I get a feeling that we didn't publish the project, then try the
assignment owner column after publishing. So we will give this a try.

Thanks,

Mac Hart
Software Engineer
(e-mail address removed)

 

[hmhart]

Thanks.

Or error - we were trying to edit the local resources as there was an
incorrect user ID in the assignment owner field.

The rest of the assignments we can correct using the method you mentioned.

Problem arose when we had to remove a user ID from the system and recreate
it. (This was an attempt to resolve another timesheet problem - blank page
for one specific user.)

Mac Hart
Software Engineer
(e-mail address removed)