Maintenance Tasks and Project Server

[JmpJack]

I'm a little new at how resources are impacting in the Global Resource pool
in Project Server. Our users must account for their time and we have a
'Gerneral Maintenance' project for which they log time for their normal/daily
maintenance tasks. We also need to set an estimated resource allocation
level for each resource that works on these general maintenance tasks. We
launched Project Server just a few months ago and users have been logging
time to this project. However, we now want to change the tasks within this
project to have a starting date of Jan 1 with an ending date of Dec 31. I
have no problem changing the task type = Fixed Duration, reseting the hours
to 0, adding the resources etc. But does anyone know what happens to the time
logged thus far, because of the calculation it factors the existing 'Actual
Hours' into the estimate. I'm also not sure how Project Server resource
allocation views this change. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Earl Lewis]

JmpJack,

I'm 90% sure actual time recorded will not be lost for past periods - regardless of the changes you make to the task.

How about trying it with a test project before you mess with your real one? Then you can see if you get the results you expect or not. There are many things to look at and it's hard to say whether what's important to you is something that someone will mention here or not. Just a thought. Good luck.

Earl
I'm a little new at how resources are impacting in the Global Resource pool
in Project Server. Our users must account for their time and we have a
'Gerneral Maintenance' project for which they log time for their normal/daily
maintenance tasks. We also need to set an estimated resource allocation
level for each resource that works on these general maintenance tasks. We
launched Project Server just a few months ago and users have been logging
time to this project. However, we now want to change the tasks within this
project to have a starting date of Jan 1 with an ending date of Dec 31. I
have no problem changing the task type = Fixed Duration, reseting the hours
to 0, adding the resources etc. But does anyone know what happens to the time
logged thus far, because of the calculation it factors the existing 'Actual
Hours' into the estimate. I'm also not sure how Project Server resource
allocation views this change. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[JmpJack]

I don't know why I didn't think of that. You are correct Earl, it worked for
a test task. The time logged is still there.

thanks.