Problems with Time Entry in PWA

[Tom K]

In entering hours against tasks in PWA using the per week method, 2 issues
have been noted.

1) When you select 'Progress' you get a view that indicates weeks. In this
view, the user can scroll betyween weeks to enter effort. Problem is that
the week goes from Monday - Monday not Monday - Sunday. So you get a week
calendar that shows 3/24-3/31 3/31-4/7. This is confusing to the person
putting time in if their work was on 3/31. Is it the first week or the
second week? The weeks should be indicated as 3/24 - 3/30 3/31-4/6 if the
work week starts on Monday.

2) In entering time though I see a bigger problem. If the person enters
time in the week and the 'Start Date' is not Monday, MS Project allocates the
entered time across 5 work days and such indicates work completed or progress
in the next week. example: I enter 8 hrs work in the week 3/24-3/31 and
then enter an 'Actual Start' date as 3/25 (this is a Tuesday). If I do a
re-calculate I see 6.4 hrs work in the 3/24-3/31 week and 1.6hrs work in the
3/31-4/7 week. This is totally incorrect. MSP is allocating the effort
across 5 consecutive days and not the days in the week remaining as I have
repeated this for a 'Start Date' of 3/3/28 which is a Friday and get 1.6 hrs
in week 3/24-3/31 and 6.4 hrs in the next week. This is a serious problem
when we are trying to gather metrics and for an individual to have to then
add the work indicated in the next week (3/31-4/7 week) to the additional
work actually done in that week. Is there any way to correct this problem?
How about the task usage view as input for effort against tasks?

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

I am assuming this is Project Server 2007? If so, can you change your
update method to work done per day? This would be more accurate and would
most likely avoid the second issue you are seeing. FYI, the task updates in
2007 have many issues and not all the features work as they should.

Jonathan

 

[LiWen]

Interesting, what other features and issues with the 2007 task updates can
you share?

Thanks,
LiWen Lin
DTI Project Manager
3027399688

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

A major one that has been mentioned in other posts is this:

Cause: When a second resource is being assigned to a task that has a Work %
Completed > 0.
Behaviour: The second resource will be presented the unexpected error when
accessing "My Tasks" page.
Solution: See posting below for a workaround:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...server/browse_thread/thread/29c8d035bb1cae3d#

Jonathan