More than one person to approve task updates

[Peter]

In my company we are two project managers. I created a project using Project
Pro 2007 and published it to a Project 2007 Server. When our resources
update the status of their tasks, only I see the Task Update request. The
other PM cannot. Is there any way to allow both of us to view and
approve/decline task updates? Under Server Settings\Manage Users, when I
click on my account or the other project manager's, we both have Project
Manager listed under "Groups that contain this user".

TIA.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Peter --

In Project Server 2007, the system assumes that there is only one project
manager PER TASK in the actual Microsoft Project plan. You can specify the
project manager on each task by temporarily inserting the Status Manager
column in any task View in Project Professional 2007. Your fellow PM will
need to open the project in question, insert the Status Manager column, and
then select him/herself as the Status Manager on the tasks he/she will
manage. He/she will then need to publish the project. Doing this will
allow you to approve the updates on the tasks you manage, and will allow
him/her to approve the updates on the tasks he/she manages. There is NO way
to allow both of you to manage all tasks in the project, however. Remember
that you can only have one project manager per task in the project. Hope
this helps.

 

[Peter]

Hi Dale,

Thanks for the information. I tried it and it works. I wish Project didn't
work like that. Do you know if there is a column I could add that would say
who is the project manager that created the task?

Thanks!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Peter --

Alas, there is no such column. Hope this helps.