Timesheet Approval by manager disable

[JungleBoy]

Hi:

We are using Project Server and PWA. We close our time entry periods every
friday than the managers have approve the time. Is there a way so that the
time gets updated on the server once the resource enters it without the
managers approving it as sometimes the managers are not there and its a big
task for a manager when there are multiple projects. Can I change a setting
or something.

We are using Project 2003.

Any help will be apprecited?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

JungleBoy --

Yours is a common question, and the answer is always the same. No, there is
no automatic way to push actuals directly from each user's PWA timesheet to
the Microsoft Project plan without the project manager approving the update.
Each PM can create a Rule on their PWA Updates page to speed up this
process, but the PM's must still click the Run Rules Now button to run the
Rule. Microsoft's assumption is that the PM must be at least minimally
involved with the task updates process. Hope this helps.

 

[tonyzink]

Hi JungleBoy --

If I could add a bit more to Dale's answer...

Task updates from Team Members can very often lead to schedule changes;
for example, if a Team Member is assigned to a task which is planned to
take 40 hours of effort over 5 days (8hrs per day), but instead they
work 10hrs / day and complete the task in only 4 days, then this could
affect downstream tasks (shift them to start 1 day earlier).

Because of situations like this (and many others), the Microsoft
Project scheduling engine needs to recalculate the entire project
schedule based on the Team Member's input. The only place where this
number crunching takes place is in Project Pro... there is currently no
server-side scheduling engine which will crunch the numbers for us.

The soon-to-be-released 2007 version of Microsoft Project, however,
DOES have this server-side engine which can process these changes for
us [insert corny commercial jingle here].

Until then, we need to rely on Project Pro to calculate schedule
changes based on Team Member updates... but stay tuned!

Good luck --

Tony Zink
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