Local vs. Project Resources - vacation!

[Ryan]

In an administrative Project, when trying to allocate vacation time so that
it reserves vacation days and bumps work around it, only local resources will
do it. If I try to do it with a resource from Project Server, it says it
will, but it will reset it when i open Project next. Why is that and how do I
avoid it?

[This feature is crucial for organising and managing the project. The
ultimate goal is to be able to have employees and developers log vacation
time once for approval, and then have their work scheduled around the
vacation automatically, instead of manually breaking work around
vacation/time off.]

If you can help me that would be awesome, because my experimenting isn't
making very much progress.

Ryan

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Ryan --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions to the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is devoted to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question,
Project Server will not reschedule work around nonworking time if you use an
Administrative project. If you want the system to reschedule work around
nonworking time, such as vacations, you must enter the nonworking time on
each resource's personal calendar in the Enterprise Resource Pool.

To add enterprise resources to your Administrative project, you must click
Tools - Build Team from Enterprise, and add the resources to the team. Then
you can assign the resources to the tasks in the Administrative project.
Hope this helps.