M
Mike
Personally, I'd like to see this feature supported in Project Professional
2003 and continued in future versions. I think it's a useful feature for
people with a small budget, nor is it as complex; Project Server is an
overkill in many collaborative situations.
Currently, I'm having problems with the workgroup feature, though
unsupported in 2003, it is still available. Here are the details I posted
earlier to the forum (no responses, BTW):
"I'm using E-mail collaboration with Project 2003.
I get weekly updates from each resource that contains the Actual Work in
hours for each day and the Remaining Work for each task. These are the
editable fields in the Progress Request form that's attached to the e-mail I
send.
What I'm finding, however, is that the Actual Work value in the Project file
is being overwritten with the current week's hours rather than accumulating
the hours week-to-week.
For example, I have a task with a baseline of 17 hours of Work. Upon
receipt of my Progress Request for week 1, a resource enters 8 hours of
Actual Work toward that task and changes the Remaining Work to 9 hours since
the original estimate of 17 hours still looks good (Remaining Work would be
increased or decreased if the task required more or less time to accomplish).
When I get the e-mail reply from the resource, I update the project and the
Work, Remaining Work and Actual Work values for the task are properly changed
in the Project file.
For the Progress Request for week 2, the resource enters 1 hour of Actual
Work for the task and changes the Remaining Work to 8 hours. (Remember that
this task has 17h of Work, 9h of Remaining Work and 8h Actual Work from week
1.)
After updating project with this information, I would expect the following
for the task:
Actual Work- 9h <the cumulative result of two weeks of effort>;
Remaining Work- 8h <as entered by resource>;
Work- 17h <the sum of the two previous values; unchanged from week 1, since
the resource still felt the task was on schedule>.
What I get is:
Actual Work- 1h <ONLY the current week's effort>;
Remaining Work- 8h <as entered by resource>;
Work- 9h <the sum of the two previous values>.
To compensate for this problem, I've been manually entering the weekly hours
using the Task Usage view, but this causes problems synchronizing information
between me and the resources.
Does anyone know why this problem occurs or how to fix it? Thanks."
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-Mike
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2003 and continued in future versions. I think it's a useful feature for
people with a small budget, nor is it as complex; Project Server is an
overkill in many collaborative situations.
Currently, I'm having problems with the workgroup feature, though
unsupported in 2003, it is still available. Here are the details I posted
earlier to the forum (no responses, BTW):
"I'm using E-mail collaboration with Project 2003.
I get weekly updates from each resource that contains the Actual Work in
hours for each day and the Remaining Work for each task. These are the
editable fields in the Progress Request form that's attached to the e-mail I
send.
What I'm finding, however, is that the Actual Work value in the Project file
is being overwritten with the current week's hours rather than accumulating
the hours week-to-week.
For example, I have a task with a baseline of 17 hours of Work. Upon
receipt of my Progress Request for week 1, a resource enters 8 hours of
Actual Work toward that task and changes the Remaining Work to 9 hours since
the original estimate of 17 hours still looks good (Remaining Work would be
increased or decreased if the task required more or less time to accomplish).
When I get the e-mail reply from the resource, I update the project and the
Work, Remaining Work and Actual Work values for the task are properly changed
in the Project file.
For the Progress Request for week 2, the resource enters 1 hour of Actual
Work for the task and changes the Remaining Work to 8 hours. (Remember that
this task has 17h of Work, 9h of Remaining Work and 8h Actual Work from week
1.)
After updating project with this information, I would expect the following
for the task:
Actual Work- 9h <the cumulative result of two weeks of effort>;
Remaining Work- 8h <as entered by resource>;
Work- 17h <the sum of the two previous values; unchanged from week 1, since
the resource still felt the task was on schedule>.
What I get is:
Actual Work- 1h <ONLY the current week's effort>;
Remaining Work- 8h <as entered by resource>;
Work- 9h <the sum of the two previous values>.
To compensate for this problem, I've been manually entering the weekly hours
using the Task Usage view, but this causes problems synchronizing information
between me and the resources.
Does anyone know why this problem occurs or how to fix it? Thanks."
--
-Mike
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...b6db-fe6860096cbf&dg=microsoft.public.project