Proposed Booking Type at the Task Level Doesn't Work?

[Mike F]

Using MSP2007 connected to Server. I can only get the proposed booking type
to toggle between Committed and Proposed for a resoruce through "Build
Team..." and not within a project at a task by task level by inserting the
column booking type. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Senario: I am wanting to publish a project that only has the requirements
section of the plan committed and ready to take progress and the remainder of
the plan is still gathering estimates and resources. I only want to capture
task progress and report availability on the committed resoruces to selected
tasks.

 

[Jonathan Sofer [MVP]]

Mike,

"Booking Type" is a project by resource level setting, not a task by
resource level setting as you have found out.

Have you considered using the field "Publish" and setting it to "No" for all
parts of the schedule that you do not want to publish?

This means those tasks won't make its way to the Published DB and will only
be visible within Project Professional I believe.

Jonathan Sofer

 

[Ben Howard]

In addition to Jonathan's posting, the task published fields do appear in the
published (and therefore reporting DB). The publish field only determines
whether the task appears on the task list for the resource. For your
scenario you could use a resource plan and put the proposed resources on
there, or have a task level field that showed whether the task was committed
or proposed.
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[Mike F]

Thank you Jonathan and Ben. Ben, that helps because eventhough the tasks are
marked to not publish, they are still being taken away from the resource's
availability when looking at the Resource Availability in the Resource Center.

So now I am faced with the issue of showing Resource Availability accurately
through the Resource Center for only selected tasks within a project that
have been committed to and scheduled & leveled. I will look into the
Resource Plan...I have not used this feature yet.