Re-Load Plan with Same Name

[Sue C]

A problem surfaced on Friday.
1. PM saves project as a file to hard drive
2. PM asks Admin to delete plan on server. Plan is deleted.
3. PM is working the plan on hard drive, adds a resource to a couple
of tasks
4. PM uploads plan back to server. Titles it the same thing as one
that was deleted
5. Publishes the plan (pushes tasks to users)
6. Resource now does not see task that was assigned to her in the
first plan (the plan that was intially deleted from server), but can
see the two new tasks that were added when the plan was off-line
7. Why does the originally assigned task not show up in PWA Tasks for
this user?

I did a test on this to see if I could reproduce the event, and it did
reproduce the same result. I'm thinking re-loading with the same name
is causing the problem .....any ideas? I need to ask the PM's why
they would want to do this in the first place.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Sue C --

In the future, please tell us what version of Project Server you are using.
2002, 2003, or 2007? From your description, my guess is 2003. If this is
true, then the PM should do the following:

1. Click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments.
2. Select the "Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option.
3. Click OK.

Hope this helps.

 

[Sue C]

SueC--

In the future, please tell us what version of Project Server you are using.
2002, 2003, or 2007? From your description, my guess is 2003. If this is
true, then the PM should do the following:

1. Click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments.
2. Select the "Overwrite actual work entered by resources" option.
3. Click OK.

Hope this helps.









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Dale, yes, we have been re-publishing this way. Some tasks still are
disappearing from PWA User's task page when re-loading a plan. I
cannot get the PM's to manage tasks and resources correctly. Do you
think this "disappearing" behavior may be attributable to that, and
that it's messing with the database?

Thanks

Sue

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Sue C --

On each team member's PWA timesheet, are the tasks disappearing because the
resources have the Current Tasks option selected? Ask them to click the All
Tasks link to see if the tasks appear. Let us know the results.