Projects checked-out "automatically"!?!

[JIM]

Hi there!

We've several issues with projects that are checked-out "anyhow"...

Our setting is MS Project Server 2007, SP2, April CUP. August CUP not in use
due to several issues that we've experienced (waiting for December CUP). The
system is used by few hundred project managers. Actual work is reported via
"My Tasks". Some project managers using rules to auto-accept the reported
Actual Work.



We are recognizing project that are checked out by any reason. First we
thought it would be user-errors caused by the "Check-in project"-dialogue
when closing an already saved project. But now, we are definitive sure that
projects are checked out at a time, the project managers are sitting in a
meeting or even are off for vacation.



Since we did not find any issue-reports in the known resources, I'll try
this post. Do you recognize similar problems? Are there known issues?



Thanks,

JIM

 

[Prasanna Adavi, PMP, MCTS]

Some areas you can check:

1) The project was not checked in properly because of a corrupt Local cache, or hitting close, but disconnecting from the network before the check-in process is completed

2) Project is checked out when a PM accepts the updates and applies them to the schedule. May be your PMs are doing it while in meetings etc.,

3) Do you have any automatic rules running for accepting Task Updates.





JIM wrote:

Projects checked-out "automatically"!?!
20-Nov-09

Hi there

We've several issues with projects that are checked-out "anyhow"..

Our setting is MS Project Server 2007, SP2, April CUP. August CUP not in us
due to several issues that we have experienced (waiting for December CUP). Th
system is used by few hundred project managers. Actual work is reported vi
"My Tasks". Some project managers using rules to auto-accept the reporte
Actual Work


We are recognizing project that are checked out by any reason. First w
thought it would be user-errors caused by the "Check-in project"-dialogu
when closing an already saved project. But now, we are definitive sure tha
projects are checked out at a time, the project managers are sitting in
meeting or even are off for vacation


Since we did not find any issue-reports in the known resources, I will tr
this post. Do you recognize similar problems? Are there known issues


Thanks

JIM

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[JIM]

Thanks for the ideas! Here my results...

1+2) We first tought it would be a caching issue or the situation that PMs
are working in meetings. But it also happens to projects where people are
NOT AVAILABLE (vacation) and are definitively not working with the plan.

3) Yes - it happens to projects that have rules activeted. This is working
fine for many projects. But some of them are not checked in again (and
cannot be edited furthermore) without an admin-checkin. Restarting the job
in the job-queue does not work...

How do we get those projects checked in again?

Thanks for your input!