Project Server 2007 Time Sheet Questions

[Project Server Slave]

Hello,

I'm familiar with the time sheeting in Project Server 2007, but I
haven't messed with a few key elements in awhile, so I have some
questions. My understanding is that a resource fills out their time
sheet either once a day or at the end of the week and submits it
weekly. So if a company was tracking peoples time against projects,
in order to keep the project up to date, the resources would need to
update time in the "My Tasks" page and then import that into the time
sheet? I know this will differ based on how the company does their
tracking, but for a company that has resources working on projects
that need to be kept up to date, would this be the method?

Another question. Does entering time into a time sheet and having it
approved, update work done on tasks in projects? Or is that where the
resource would fill out the "My Tasks" page and that would update
tasks on the project? Then import it into the time sheet?

Thank you for your feedback, I am just trying to get this straight
before I have to go walk a client through this.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Project Server Slave --

Excellent questions. Here's the answers:

1. I first would recommend that your team members enter their time on the
My Timesheet page on a daily basis and then submit it to their resource
manager at the end of the week. This allows them to enter and submit all
types of time spent on any type of work. Team members should then navigate
to the My Tasks page and import the time entered on project tasks from the
My Timesheet page, and then submit the task update to their project manager.

2. Entering time on the My Timesheet page DOES NOT update the Microsoft
Project 2007 project plan. Task updates must be manually entered on the My
Tasks page or imported from the My Timesheet page, and then submitted to the
PM for approval and updating into the Microsoft Project plan.

Regarding which to do first, team members can enter time on the My Timesheet
page and import it to the My Tasks page, or vice versa. Do it whatever
makes most sense in your organization. Hope this helps.

 

[Project Server Slave]

That is as I suspected. Thank you for your time Dale.

 

[brian.child]

That is as I suspected. Thank you for your time Dale.








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I have another issue in that when you go to the Import timesheet from
the my task page all of the timesheets show in random order? This
makes finding the correct timesheet to import very difficult!
Is there a solution for this or did I miss something?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Brian --

Another excellent question. Just between you and me (and the thousands of
people who read this newsgroup), I cannot see any logic behind the order of
the Timesheets displayed on Import Timesheet page. Furthermore, I do not
know of any way to change the order to make it logical, such as in order by
the date each was created, for example. Sorry.

 

[Mike Mahoney]

Brian --

Another excellent question. Just between you and me (and the thousands of
people who read this newsgroup), I cannot see any logic behind the order of
the Timesheets displayed on Import Timesheet page. Furthermore, I do not
know of any way to change the order to make it logical, such as in order by
the date each was created, for example. Sorry.









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Brian/Dale
Advise users when they create their timesheet to change the title
(from My Timesheet) to period reference e.g 07-42, etc). Everything
then displays sequentially. This also adds a lot more value to
Resource Usage views.

regards

Mike

 

[Mike Mahoney]

Brian/Dale
Advise users when they create their timesheet to change the title
(from My Timesheet) to period reference e.g 07-42, etc). Everything
then displays sequentially. This also adds a lot more value to
Resource Usage views.

regards

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Chaps

I need to recant. I have documented this process and have a graphic
which shows timesheet list in perfect order! After writing this mail I
checked and guess what? Anyway the technique of using the period
number makes the list slightly more digestible.

Mike

 

[bchild]

Mike,

I am not clear on your last message?
Can you post and or send the graphic and the best practices for doing this?
I appreciate the help in this matter we do timesheets daily because we have
no other way of posting comments per task per day. This causes a LOT of
timesheets in the view.

-Brian

 

[Mike Mahoney]

Mike,

I am not clear on your last message?
Can you post and or send the graphic and the best practices for doing this?
I appreciate the help in this matter we do timesheets daily because we have
no other way of posting comments per task per day. This causes a LOT of
timesheets in the view.

-Brian






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Brian

Not aware I can attach graphics / files in this forum. If you send
your details to my email address I can forward an example

regards

Mike