Submit Zero Hours timesheet

[Shorty]

Hello

We have resources assigned to projects and for certain weeks don't do
any work on the project but their PWA home page still shows they have
an unsubmitted timesheet. When they go to put in 0 on their tasks page
and update they get an error message that says "There is nothing new to
update" The only way we have been able to get around this is to enter
in a number other than 0 and then change it back to 0. We then update
the timesheet and the system is happy and accepts it.

I was told that SP2 had fixed this issue but then Microsoft advised
that "Project does not allow sending zero task/timesheet update without
going through the above process"

I would be interested to know how other users are dealing with this
issue. I know that we can go into the project schedule and make the
changes but we are trying to avoid this option.

Thank you

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Shorty:

From your post it would seem that you're using managed time periods, but you
have no real need to capture time from everyone every week. Typically this
feature is deployed when the aforementioned requirement is very important.
On the other hand, the feature can be a huge annoyance (as it seems you are
discovering) in just about any other environment.