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Brian Stebbins
Hello all,
Fairly simple question... I have a feeling the answer is not os simple
though. Is there a way to stop hours from other projects showing up under
the remaining hours column for my resources... (in consolidated file)
More clearly put... Consolidated Project file has Projects C thru. F.
Stored on the same server... but archived are Projects A and B. Now I do
NOT have projects A and B open and I open my consolidated file with C, D, E,
& F in it. I then go to Resource Usage, and unless I open Projects A and B,
every hour any resource had in projects A & B shows up as remaining work. I
know that if I open A & B then all remaining work jumps to the actuals
column, but my boss just wants to see the summary task for resources reflect
what they actually have yet to do.
Short of removing projects A and B from the server I see no way to stop
this from happening. I'd prefer to prevent this since my resources like to
reference their notes in PWA from projects A & B... hence why I just changed
the resource types to "proposed" instead of "committed" and kept the
projects on the server.
I'm running project 2003 and server 2003. Please advise... my boss is
very unhappy with this because projects A & B are symbolic of about 25 dead
projects and he doesn't want to have to open that many projects to see an
accurate "remaining work".
One thing I though about was making a macro to delete all tasks in the
"resource usage" view that contain ".published" which would give an
accurate reflection until you open the file next time. Then you'd have to
run the macro again... It just seems risky, I'm very hesitant to have a
macro delete things for fear of it deleting MORE than it should. That would
require mainenance on the macro over time. Just makes me nervous.
-Brian Stebbins
Fairly simple question... I have a feeling the answer is not os simple
though. Is there a way to stop hours from other projects showing up under
the remaining hours column for my resources... (in consolidated file)
More clearly put... Consolidated Project file has Projects C thru. F.
Stored on the same server... but archived are Projects A and B. Now I do
NOT have projects A and B open and I open my consolidated file with C, D, E,
& F in it. I then go to Resource Usage, and unless I open Projects A and B,
every hour any resource had in projects A & B shows up as remaining work. I
know that if I open A & B then all remaining work jumps to the actuals
column, but my boss just wants to see the summary task for resources reflect
what they actually have yet to do.
Short of removing projects A and B from the server I see no way to stop
this from happening. I'd prefer to prevent this since my resources like to
reference their notes in PWA from projects A & B... hence why I just changed
the resource types to "proposed" instead of "committed" and kept the
projects on the server.
I'm running project 2003 and server 2003. Please advise... my boss is
very unhappy with this because projects A & B are symbolic of about 25 dead
projects and he doesn't want to have to open that many projects to see an
accurate "remaining work".
One thing I though about was making a macro to delete all tasks in the
"resource usage" view that contain ".published" which would give an
accurate reflection until you open the file next time. Then you'd have to
run the macro again... It just seems risky, I'm very hesitant to have a
macro delete things for fear of it deleting MORE than it should. That would
require mainenance on the macro over time. Just makes me nervous.
-Brian Stebbins