Tasks for generic resources on project owner's My Tasks page?

[Peter M.]

Hello,
I have another problem with Project Server 2007. As described in the title,
tasks for generic resources appear on the project owner's My Tasks page.
Why would this happen? It doesn't make sense at all. Is this Project
Server's standard behavior? It's extremely annonying, in addition to the fact
that for generic resources, no default assignment owner can be set, which,
quite contrarily, would indeed make sense.

Any kind of confirmation or ideas are appreciated.


Best Regards,
Peter.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Peter --

I can assure you that the behavior you see is normal. Whether it is a bug
or by design is up for debate. And I agree that it is annoying. Hope this
helps.

 

[Peter M.]

It certainly makes me feel better, thank you Dale. ;-)

 

[Mel]

Hello,
I have another problem with Project Server 2007. As described in the title,
tasks for generic resources appear on the project owner's My Tasks page.
Why would this happen? It doesn't make sense at all. Is this Project
Server's standard behavior? It's extremely annonying, in addition to the fact
that for generic resources, no default assignment owner can be set, which,
quite contrarily, would indeed make sense.

Any kind of confirmation or ideas are appreciated.

Best Regards,
Peter.

This is one of the reasons why we removed all generic resources from
our system and required our PMs to use local resources, which do not
have the problem. Having generic resources defeated the purpose of
managing real resource work at our site and made for a lot of lazy
PMs. Local resources can be used as placeholders, or as real people
if the the individuals they represent can't get into MSPS due to
security/firewalls, or are not allowed due to Data Privacy
restrictions, so a local resource works out fine. Managers do have to
enter time manually for them, but they would anyway even if the
resource was stored as a generic on the ERP.
Hope that helps,
mel

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Peter:

I've actually discovered that you can work around this by copying the
Resource UID to the Default Assignment Owner field in the published
database. You can do this manually or by writing a simple query to update
the information.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
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