Verification of how overdue task email alerts work

[ksharman]

We have just started using the MS project server 2003 with Project 2003
clents for the PM's. We have noticed that if you link two tasks
together as say Finish to Start, Task A first and Task B next, then the
overdue alerts to team members are not as we expected them to be. For
example, if the resource is overdue in finishing Task A and has not
completed that task yet on PWA, the team member for Task B is still
getting alerts that their task has started -and in some cases - that
Task B is overdue. I understand that project is just using the
information that is has been given so maybe if there is no event from
the user to work with, it is just using it predefined plan and sending
the alerts as we have configured in the PWA view. But is this how it
should work? We would like for the Team member of task B to not
receive the overdue alerts since the linked task A before it is not
done yet but is this able to be done?
Thanks for your advice,
ksharman

 

[Mike Glen]

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