Why I can not Change Status Manager?

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My role is Project Owner who published project. But now the Resource Managers
need to receive progress update notification which belong to their team, so
I want to assign different status manager to tasks.
I insert the <status manager> column in Gantt Chart and then see my name,
however I only can see my name from the pull down list of <status manager>.
If I directly enter the resource manager's name in that column, this project
plan will be frozen untill I re-enter my name in the <status manager> column.
How can I add another name in the pull down list of <Status Manager> and
keep Project Manager as myself? Does it need any 'permission' to be set?

Thanks...
 
Å

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Hi, Gary,
Thanks for your reply.
Do you mean, the Status Manager could only be set as same as Project Manager
(owner)? Or they could be different person?
Further, would you please let me know what is 'folk' function? which
‘security items' are affect this <folk> Function?

Thanks a lot,

JJw
 
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Gary L. Chefetz

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GG

Hi:
I think you can assign other people as status manager. But the person you
want to assign must have the project manager access right. And he must be
able to access your plan based on RBS.

We do that very often in our company. I am pretty sure it works.

Cheers
Rock
 
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GG

Hi Gary:
When we build up the team from enterprise resource pool, we add the other
project manager also into the plan. Then the name could be shown in the
Status Manager list.

Cheers
Rock
 
Å

åŠæ–°ä¸æ—§

Hi, GG,

It is a good news.
1- Do you mean we can send different task's update notification to different
person?
2- How do we assign another project manager in Team Building? There is not
this option.
3- Can I realize this function without RBS definition?


Thanks in advance,

JJin
 
Å

åŠæ–°ä¸æ—§

Hi, GG,

Would you like to give us details as Gary says?

Thanks in advance,

JJin
 
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GG

Hi Gary:
I just tried more to dig out what is happening in ourside. I found that in
the first time, the project owner indeed cannot add more status managers in
the list. But after other projects opened the project and assigned some of
the task owner to themselves. Next time when the project owner open the
project, he/she can also start to assign any other tasks to the new status
manager. This might be the reason that in our place, I feel I can assign my
project tasks' status manager to different people.

Cheers
Rock
 
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Gary L. Chefetz

Yes, well that's consistent with what we've been saying. In order to become
a status manager in a plan, the would-be status manager must open the plan
and assign him/herself as the status manager to at least one task.

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