Status Manager issue

[anovak]

Well, I created some templates that others used and showed them how to
select their name as the Status Manager on each task after I gave them
ownership of the Project.

However, when the project level summary task is displayed, I'm still
shown as the Status Manager although all the tasks have someone else
designated.

How can we get their name on the summary level task?

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT

 

[Paul Conroy]

Hi Andy,

I'm not aware that you can set the Status Manager on summary tasks, more to
the point I'm not sure that you would want to.

As it's not considered best practice to add assignments to summary tasks,
you shouldn't have any updates to approve.

Paul
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[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Hi Andy,

Pauls respond is spot on. Since you cant update summary tasks under "My
tasks" you would not want to have Status Managers on Summary tasks.

 

[anovak]

Hi Andy,

Pauls respond is spot on. Since you cant update summary tasks under "My
tasks" you would not want to have Status Managers on Summary tasks.

OK. Well, it seems rather "incomplete" to me, but as long as it
doesn't cause any problems down the line, guess its alright.

 

[Jane Darnell]

Andy,
The status manager on the project summary task is always the last person to
publish the project. If you have the project file open, then this is you.
When you sit with a PM to handover project responsibilities after initially
starting from a project template, explaining this behavior is pretty
important. You can make a little macro to update the status manager field for
the person who currently has that project open read/write using this code:

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Str = ActiveProject.ProjectSummaryTask.StatusManagerName
ChStatus = False
For Each Tsk In ActiveProject.Tasks
If Not Tsk Is Nothing Then
If Tsk.StatusManagerName = Str Then ' no change
Else: Tsk.StatusManagerName = Str 'update the status manager name
ChStatus = True
End If
End If 'not task
Next Tsk
If ChStatus = True Then ' This macro reset the Status manager
Else ' No changes were necessary
End If

Hope it helps,
Jane