Remaining work in Timehseet view

[Bella]

Hi,

How do I get remaining work to appear in the timesheet in the task view in
PWA. My default method of tracking is set to: Actual work done and work
remaining: Resources report the actual work done and the work remaining to be
done on each task. Should it be set to something else?

HELP and thanks in advance

Bella

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Bella --

Ask your Project Server administrator to add the Remaining Work column to
the Timesheet view. By default, the Remaining Work column appears in the
Timesheet view, and it sounds like your Project Server administrator removed
the field for some reason. Hope this helps.

 

[Bella]

Dale,

I am the administrator and the remaining work field was added to the
timesheet view. It appears on the gantt sheet, but not on the timesheet in
the task view in PWA. Do I need to do something else? The way it stands
right now, resources can enter actual and overtime work in the timesheet view
and the remaining work is being entered in the gantt view. I would like
remaining work to be entered on the timesheet.

HELP!!
Thanks in advance,
Bella

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Bella --

The Remaining Work field appears in the table on the left side of the
timesheet page, but does not actually appear in the timesheet grid on the
right. Hope this helps.

 

[Reza]

Dale...

i can't find remaining work in my timesheet.
when i want to add in manage view -- my timesheet in available fields, there
were remaining work
only cost type, health, RBS and team name.
should i download update from microsoft???

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Reza --

The answer I gave to Bella was for Project Server 2003. You are obviously
using Project Server 2007, and you need to indicate this when you post a
question in this newsgroup. If you need to choose the Remaining Work field
as a field for the My Timesheet view, your Project Server administrator
needs to update your Project Server 2007 system with the Infrastructure
Update that was released last summer. The Infrastructure Update adds the
Remaining Work field as an available field for the My Timesheet view. Keep
in mind, however, that you must select the "Time entry by timesheet only"
option on the Task Settings and Display page for the Remaining Work field to
be unlocked for editing. Selecting this option means that your team members
must enter all progress in the My Timesheet page and then must import their
progress to the My Tasks page. With this option selected, team members
CANNOT manually enter progress in the My Tasks page. Are you sure you want
to do that?

Beyond installing the Infrastructure Update, I would strongly encourage your
administrator to apply the latest Cumulate Update, which is the December
update. Hope this helps.

 

[Jonathan Sofer [MVP]]

Just curious Dale,

Have you noticed that when you change the remaining work in My Timesheets,
it updates the remaining work in My Tasks instantly, while the actuals
entered are only updated in My Tasks after importing the timesheet?

What this means is that your Remaining Work will be modified twice. Once
when you manually change your remaining work in My Timesheets and again when
you import your actuals and the remaining work gets reduced by the amount of
actuals being imported.

Scenario:
A resource has 40 hours of work scheduled for the week against "Task A"

Steps:
-In My Timesheets for "Task A" the resource enters 20 hours of actual work
for the week and puts that he/she has 20 hours remaining work.
-My Tasks remaining work changes to 20 instantly when the resource saves the
timesheet.
-The resource then switches over to My Tasks and imports their timesheet for
that week.

Expected Result?:
I believe the resource would expect the remaining work to be 20 since that
is what they entered in My Timesheets.

Actual Result:
Instead the task is marked as complete. My Tasks imports the 20 actual
hours and sets the remaining work from 20 to 0.


It seems to me that there is a fatal flaw in the design of how "Remaining
Work" is handled in My Timesheets.

Jonathan

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Jonathan --

Nothing surprises me any more. I just set up a sample project and worked
through the steps you documented. And I can confirm your findings exactly.
Sadly, this is probably one more design flaw that makes this software so
challenging to use. Have you reported this as a bug to Microsoft? As
currently designed, this renders the Remaining Work field entirely useless
in the My Timesheet page. Let us know.

 

[Jonathan Sofer [MVP]]

I will document the steps with screen shots and report it to Microsoft.

Thanks, Jonathan

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Jonathan --

Thanks!

I will document the steps with screen shots and report it to Microsoft.

Thanks, Jonathan

 

[Jan]

So where can i go to see if this is being worked on by microsoft?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Jan --

You can't. We all find out what is in the next Cumulative Update or Service
Pack when Microsoft finally releases it. Since we don't work for Microsoft,
none of us have any insider knowledge about bug fixes. Hope this helps.