PS2007-How to temporarily change the approver of tasks updates

[PedroJose]

Hello,

Quick question, consider this, I am the project manager and I approve all
resources task updates before they get updated to the project plan. I want
to temporarily change the approver to another person because I am going on
vacation for 1 month. How do I do that??

Thx.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

PedroJose --

The temporary approver must open your projects, temporarily insert the
Status Manager column in any task View (such as the Gantt Chart view), and
then select him/herself as the Status Manager for in-progress and upcoming
tasks. Then he/she needs to save and publish each project. When you return
from your month of vacation, you must repeat the same steps for every
project you manage. Hope this helps.

 

[PedroJose]

Dale,

That works, thx again!! a follow up question: how do I setup more than
one (myself) status managers in one plan??? our plans follow a well defined
sdlc and each phase is owned by a different team, so I would like to setup
the plans so that each team manager is the status manager for his
portion/tasks.

I tried creating a new plan and entering the team managers names in the
status manager column but that cant seem to work (i can only enter my
name....)

Is there a way to define a list of "Status managers" for a project plan???

thx

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

PedroJose --

Each of the people who will serve as the Status Manager in a section of the
project must open the project and specify him/herself as the Status Manager
for his/her own tasks. That's the only way to do it. It is "self service"
so to speak! Hope this helps.