Project Owner -- task assignment

[Anum_10]

If you assign a generic resource and don't name it and if you are the project
owner, it assigns the task with generic resource to you. I have reoccurring
meetings in my project schedule assigning Project Manager(myself) and
Business Analyst(Generic).

When importing tasks it put two assignment tasks on my outlook calendar...

How can I avoid this or is there a better way to do this? Thanks.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Anum_10 --

What you are seeing is the default behavior of Project Server 2007 for
Generic resources. There are only a couple ways around this issue:

1. From the Resource Center page in PWA, change the Generic resources to
"Generic-like" Work resources and then specify the resource as its own
Assignment Owner.

2. "Hack" the Project Server database and forcibly specify an Assignment
Owner value for the Generic resource (not a good idea, since Microsoft will
not support direct changes to the DB such as this).

Hope this helps.

 

[Anum_10]

Hi Dale,

Can you please show me the steps to do the following?

1. From the Resource Center page in PWA, change the Generic resources to

"Generic-like" Work resources and then specify the resource as its own
Assignment Owner.

How do I change the generic resources to 'generic-lik' work resources? How
do I specify the resource as its own Assignment Owner?

Thanks!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Anum_10 --

Deselect the Generic checkbox. Hope this helps.

 

[Anum_10]

Thanks Dale. How do I specify the Resource as it's own assignement owner?

Is that automatically done with I assign the task to the generic-like
resource?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Anum_10 --

From the Resource Center page, select a Generic resource that you converted
to a "Generic-like" Work resource, and then click the Edit Details button.
Scroll down to the Assignment Attributes section and specify the resource as
its own Default Assignment Owner. Hope this helps.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Anum:

To learn more about this problem and possible solutions, see my blog post on
the subject:

http://www.projectserverhelp.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

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