Project is applying Completed Task mark when task is NOT completed

[Jena]

Hi All,
I'm a bit lost and would appreciate your help.
I updated actual hours on several tasks, and the program updated the task to
be completed. The hours are only a portion of the planned hours, so I don't
understand why this is happening. When I try to change the % completed to
show that it is not yet done, the schedule changes - understandably -- but
not accurate to the plan prior to the incorrect update. I need to have the
plan showing the actual hours, and the correct hours remaining, with the
correct finish date for work yet to be completed, and can't seem to get there.
Any suggestions.
Thanks,
Jena

 

[Jack Dahlgren MVP]

Make sure that the following columns are inserted into the view that you are
using:

Work
Actual Work
Remaining Work
Baseline Work

Actual Work should show all of the hours that you have updated,
Remaining Work in most cases will decrease by the amount you have updated
until it hits zero and the task will be marked complete automatically.
If you hit 0 in remaining work and there is still more work to be done, you
need to increase the remaining work. If remaining work is greater than 0 the
% complete will not be 100%.

There are a number of subtleties around this, but if you have those 4
columns available to you, you will get a good idea of what is going on when
you update.

-Jack