PWA Alerts

[SteveP]

Is there anyway in Project Web Access (PWA) that a end user will know
when a task is updated from the My Tasks view?

I know users can be updated through e-mail notification, but when
looking at the My Tasks screen, are there any indicators that a task
has changed or been updated?

Thanks

Steve

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Steve --

In the future, please let us know what version of Project Server you are
using. Based on your question, I will assume you are using Project Server
2007. Unlike Project Server 2003, users of the 2007 cannot see an icon to
the left of a task on the My Tasks page to know that the schedule has
changed for a task. Worse still, a bug in Project Server 2007 causes the
system to send an e-mail message to every team member every time the PM
publishes the project, regardless of whether the task schedule has changed
for any team member. So, I am sorry to tell you is that team members cannot
know directly whether the schedule for a task has changed. Hope this helps.

 

[.jussi]

Hi Dale,

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard the notification behavior
referred to as a bug. I had become accustomed to thinking of it as (very
poorly designed) functionality. Do you happen to have any insight to where on
the backlog this is for the Project team? Thank you for flagging it as a bug
in my mind, at least .

As for the task updates, PS2007 My tasks control does give you a small icon
for updated tasks in the first column of the list. I have not looked very
deeply into the logic behind this icon, but it does appear to signal which
tasks have changed since the user last submitted work to them.

What you could do, depending on the technical competence at your disposal,
is write a custom event handler that sends out customized notifications when
a project is published. It would be far from a trivial task, however, and I
believe the project developer newsgroup would be a better forum for that
discussion.

Hope that helps,

- Jussi