I'm not the owner of a project plan

[Bella]

Hi,

We are using Project Server 2003 with PWA 2003 and MS Pro 2003. When a
resource submits her actual hours in PWA for a task an e-mail is sent to the
owner of that plan, who will then accept the update in PWA. However, instead
of the owner of the plan receiving the e-mail, I did and the updates showed
up in my PWA view. How did this happen? Has anyone else experienced this
problem?

I did publish some new and changed assignments on this plan. Could that be
the reason? But I never made myself the manager of the plan.

Thanks in advance,
Bella

 

[TGG]

Bella,

Project has a concept of Project Owner and Task Owner. This was to enable
the ability to have multiple project managers managing a single project plan.


The issue with this "feature" is that it is really easy to change the task
owner inadvertently, which is done usually via a publish. If you go to the
task sheet of the person submitting the task, look for the project manager
field in the task. You will most likely see your name.

In essence, you became the task owner for those tasks when you executed the
new and changed publish.

To correct this, you will have to process the updates. Unfortunately, we've
not found a way to change the owner back when there were outstanding updates.

Once completed, have the Project owner in Project Pro select the tasks in
question, then select Collaborate, Publish, Republish Assignments. When the
dialog comes up, they should check the last checkbox which says something
like become manager of these tasks. That will change the task owner back to
the project owner.

I've not found a way to display the task owner in Pro and the task sheet in
PWA is the only place i've ever seen it. If anyone reading this knows of how
to access it from Pro, please post a reply.

Hope this helps!
TGG

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Bella:

The account the first publishes a task is the owner of the task. If you
published new tasks, you own them until the rightful PM does a republish and
becomes the manager

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
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