Task Updates not reflected in Project Center

[Radu]

Hi all,

I have the following scenario:
One project: Project1
One task: Task1, estimated duration 16h
One resource: Resource1, full rights, member of all groups
Task1 is assigned to Resource1 (only)

Resource1 creates a timesheet with 8h of work for Task1, saves and submit.
The timesheet displays the remaining work column. Resource1 leave this
unchanged.
From My Tasks, Resource 1 imports the newly created timesheet to Task1 and
clicks Submit All.

In Task Updates there is nothing to Approve for Resource1.

In Project Center, the actual work reported is NOT reflected. Though, if
Resource1 opens Project1 in Microsoft Project (windows client) the actual
work done for Task1 is 8h (witch is very correct).
Only after Resource1 publish Project1, the work done for Task1 is reflected
in Project Center.

Is this a bug ?
Can this behaviour be related to this KB Article ?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956061

Thank you!

 

[Jonathan Sofer [MVP]]

I am not sure why Resource1 does not see the submitted updates, it could be
that Resource1 is not set as the Assignment Owner for that task, please
verify in the schedule. Even so, I still cannot fathom how the updates make
it into the schedule without being approved first by the Assignment Owner.
This cannot happen as far as I know.

But I do understand why the Project Center does not reflect the updates
until after the project is re-published with the changes. That is by
design. Project Center and PWA in general reads from the Published
database. What you see in the Project Professional is the Working DB and
when you publish, it synchronizes the Working DB with the Published DB, thus
making the changes visible in PWA.

Also, I did not see anything in the KB article you mentioned that sounds
like what you are experiencing.

Jonathan

 

[Radu]

Hi Jonathan,

First of all thanks a lot for your reply!

After reading your reply i was convinced that i did a mistake in task update
process.
It is strange for me also that task update approval did not show in my task
update approval list, and still the changes are reflected in work database
without approval. I told to myself: may be i missed something. That's why i
try it again.
I created a new task, i did all the process again. Now i can approve the
task updates submited. When I hit preview my new task has the progress
displayed correctly. After i hit accept button for my new task update I'm
going in project center to see the changes. There are STILL NO changes in
project center.

In KB article chapter "List of issues that this hotfix package fixes" there
is this sentence: "The work that is accepted on the Task Updates page may not
appear in the project when the update is applied." that's why i asked if this
behaviour is a known bug.

Radu

 

[Radu]

So the PM must open the project in Microsoft Project every time he needs to
see the task updates approved (by him). As i can understand, If he wants to
make the changes permanently he needs to open and publish the project.

Because I'm just curious about your opinion on this: If PM approves, the
data is assumed to be correct, so, it should be saved as permanent data,
right ?

Is there a way to bypass this steps (opening and publishing the project) ?
My first ideea is to write code on Project Updated event and publish the
project by hand.

Thank you very much.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Radu:

You can certainly automate things using code, however the PM should use
Project to approve the updates and then it's no big deal to do the publish.

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[Radu]

Ok, thank you. It makes sens now.

Radu:

You can certainly automate things using code, however the PM should use
Project to approve the updates and then it's no big deal to do the publish.

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