Re-forecasting Effort Automically (not using re-forecast uncomplet

[The Great Caper]

I am using project Server 2003. I have several resources (40 or more)
assigned to many tasks in my plan. When a team member has, say 4 hours a day,
over a week period. The team member updates their time in PWA to reflect the
work they have done. Let's assume it is less then the planned work - 2.5
hours a day. The remaining work is 7.5 hours. How can I get Project Server or
Project Pro to re-forecast the work that did not get done. I was told that
if a team member enters .01 hrs for tasks that were schedueld and they did no
work on it the tool will re-forecast the remaining effort, but this also does
not reforecast effort. Am I doing something wrong, why does PS 2003 not
re-forecast effort?

Thanks,

GC

 

[Ben Howard]

From memory.

Tools | tracking | update project | reschedule uncompleted work to start
after....

 

[The Great Caper]

I know this method exists, but is there no way, when I accept actuals via PWA
that the remaining effort will get reforecasted. My team members are not
entering the remaining work in the remaining work field. ETCs are discussed
and enterd into the plan manually, but I would liek whatever work remains on
the task to be automically leveled through to the end date of the task,
without using the remaining work field.
Suggestions?

Thanks,

GC

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Caper:

Ben is right on track. When you process a PWA update, the system does
reschedule the remaing work into the future if your settings are correct.
You must select the calculation options, on the calculation tab under Tools

Options. Here you must select select the checkbox for "Updating task

status updates resource status," and select "Move start of remaining parts
before status date forward to status date.

If these two options are selected, you'll get the results you seek.
Understand that you should set this as the default for each installation so
that new projects get created with these options selected. You'll need to
change these options in each project on the server that were created before
the options were set.

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