Status Reports

[Florida Dude]

I have a resource that can't seem to create
Status Requests. We uninstalled and reinstalled Active X
controls, but the page won't load and she can't select resources
when
it does load....any ideas?...gets error 5653 "object doesn't support
this property or method"

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi, ActiveX controls are not required for Status Reports. Try and get your
IE back to as vanilla as possible. Also, is it just for this PC for multiple
users, or just this user across multiple PCs, or just that user on that PC?

 

[Ron-PS-Admin]

Hi Florida Dude,

I've experienced a similar problem only the resource cannot SUBMIT a status
report.

The page comes up but the fields for input do not allow the resource to type
into them. Instead the fields display with small red X's in the top left
hand corners.

The resource can add more sections and titles but cannot type in the new
sections nor submit the report.

The only "fix" we've found so far is to try having your resource use a
machine that is running:

Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6
Windows 2000 with Internet Explorer 6
Windows Server 2003 with Internet Explorer 7

Resources who cannot respond to status reports are using:

Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7
Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 8 Beta

Right now we're trying to install Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows XP
machine to see if it works.

If anyone else has any ideas it would be very helpful for us because most of
our resources are running Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7

Thank-you for reading.

Ron-PS-Admin

 

[Ron-PS-Admin]

Hi Again Florida Dude,

Microsoft says this is a known problem with Windows Vista users. I will
repost what we have discovered to work and NOT work.

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Hi,

The answer is yes and no. Project 2003 Web Access does run on Windows Vista
exept for the Status Reports submission page.

We did get it to work on machines running

Windows XP with IE 6
Windows XP (SP3) with IE 7
Windows 2003 Server with IE 7
Windows 2000 with IE 6

We CANNOT get it to work on ANY machine running

Windows Vista with IE 7
Windows Vista with IE 8 (Beta

Please help out if you can and thank-you for reading.

Ron-PS-Admin

 

[VideocomLinx]

She is using IE6.0 with Windows XP. Also this is just her PC.

When you say she should take IE back to vanilla, do you mean she
should uninstall/reinstall, upgrade to 7.0, or something else?

 

[Florida Dude]

She is using IE6.0 with Windows XP. Also this is just her PC.

When you say she should take IE back to vanilla, do you mean she
should uninstall/reinstall, upgrade to 7.0, or something else?






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she is using XP and and 6.0......any other suggestions....

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

This is a known issue. The problem is that the control that the page uses
was dropped in Vista. The XP control is incompatible with the Vista OS.
There is not solution available yet.

My personal rant: Status reports are a crutch for organizations that aren't
doing a good job tracking their projects with the tool. The goal of an EPM
deployment is to eliminate inefficient reporting and rely on the system
data.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
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