Summary Durations in PWA

[Hadi]

Hello Experts,

I have been using MS Project 2003 for several years now, but recently
started to use PWA for reporting, etc. I noticed a problem with the duration
on the summary tasks inside PWA. For example, I setup a Project Center view
to group by one of my Enterprise Project Text Fields. The Duration at that
summary level is adding up all of the durations for the projects below. what
is the issue? I am not the admin and not sure if our admin is keeping up with
all of the SPs and hot fixes.

Thank you,

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Hadi --

It appears that when you apply Grouping in a PWA view, such as the Project
Center view, the system does a simple addition of the values for each group
on any field containing a number that can be added, such as Work or
Duration. The Start date field rolls up to the earliest Start date of any
project and the Finish field rolls up to the latest Finish date of any
project. Other fields, such as % Complete, do not roll up at all. I think
that you are seeing the default behavior in PWA. I doubt this is a bug.
Even if it is a bug, if Microsoft has not fixed it already, they will not do
so in the future as they have stopped supporting Project Server 2003.

By the way, I see exactly the same behavior in Project Server 2007 as well.
It looks like this is how the system handles the rollup of values in the
Project Center view. Hope this helps.