Time reporting - restricted and allowed rules

[Bill Lynch]

Is there any way to allow task time reporting for tasks (entry not
restricted) set to Task type Fixed Duration and not Effort Driven. It appears
that the only way is to make them Fixed Units and Effort Driven. We are
trying to have resources enter all actual time expended on the project, but
they can't enter time for such tasks as Meetings which are Fixed Duration and
not Effort Driven. The end result desired is to pull total hours for
resources (particularly contractors) to eliminate reporting into MS Project
and a time reporting system -- just MS Project. Then pull the info for a
report that is entered into the time system for payment.

 

[Nana]

Bill -

You might want to look in Administrative projects. I believe they were
designed to do exactly what you are looking to do. There is a default
template to use for this purpose

 

[Ratheesh]

Bill Lynch,

Just an idea..

If you are using Project Web access to enter the time than you can create a
seperate project file for Meetings and make the its fields published but non
editable.

You can create a master project and link you current project and this
meeting project.In addition you may have to create a resource pool as well.

Hope this helps.

 

[Bill Lynch]

Thanks for both your responses.

I maintain several projects and was hoping I could still use the recurring
tasks as weekly meetings and the team members could respond. Seems strange
that Web Access is not consistent in letting you report time here.

By not consistent, I mean if I set several of the recurring meeting tasks
Fixed Duration and Effort Driven. One will be available (far in the future),
the rest will not. To an old programmer, seems strange that it is not
consistent.

Bill