Project vs. Administrative Project

[FlyingNavi]

Which difference between administrative project and project ? Can I use a
normal project for administrative project.
If I use a normal project for out of office and holiday - what is the result
?

Is it a problem to make this:
Project: Out of office
Task | Ressource | Date from | Date to
| Chart
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eberhard Wirsing
<------>
Eberhard Wirsing | Eberhard Wirsing | 1.1.06 | 5.1.06 ----
Eberhard Wirsing | Eberhard Wirsing | 10.1.06 | 12.1.06
-----

in a normal project ?

The problem I have is to sort the ressourcen alphabetical.

Thanks for your help !

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hi FlyingNavi,

Yes, you can use a normal project plan which works like an administrative
one.
Have a look at the detailled process in the wonderful ProjectExperts site :
http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/RegularProjectLikeAdminProject.htm
Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

FlyingNavi --

Administrative projects are useful for tracking non-project time, unplanned
work, and unplanned working time such as sick leave. Our company recommends
that you do not use Administrative projects for tracking planned nonworking
time, such as vacation. To track vacation and personal leave time, you
should enter this time as nonworking time on each resource's personal
calendar in the Enterprise Resource Pool.

The issue with Administrative projects and vacation is that the Admin
project does not cause Project Server to automatically reschedule project
work around each nonworking time period. The system only reschedules
project work when the nonworking time is entered on the resource's calendar
in the Enterprise Resource Pool.

Yes, you can use a regular project to function like an Administrative
project, but you will need to teach your team members to increase the
Remaining Work whenever it reachers 0 hours, otherwise, the task will
disappear from their timesheets if they have the Current Tasks option
selected. Hope this helps.

 

[Mike]

FlyingNavi

This approach is fine. If you create a grouping on resource name
(Assignments not tasks) and apply it to a task usage view it will
effectively sort by resource name.

regards

Mike