Adding groups to My Task view in PWA

[Dvillal]

I am using project 2007 and project server 2007, at this time we have a very
amounts of projects related to a systems implementation, problem that I have
is this:
In my project client, I am setting up tasks like
Phoenix Office->
Software Implementation ->
Application installation
Patching and Updates

I have these tasks repeated for several sites, problem is that when team
members go to "My Task" web page in PWA, they only can see "Application
installation & Patching and Updates" repeated as many office as they are
assigned to. They do not know which offices these tasks belongs for.

Is there any way to add the other levels of the task path to "My
assignments" view and have them structured as they look in my project client?
or Change the color and identify them as Milestones

 

[.jussi]

Hi Dvillal,

Unfortunately out -of-the-box the my tasks -control only shows the lowest
level task description. When you activate the task, more information is shown
on the bottom of the control and you can see the entire path from the "task
path" -item on the dropdown menu of a task. This, of course is far from
usable.

What you can do is set up a custom task field that you include on the my
tasks view. You can then parse parent task information to this custom field
when a project is saved from the project pro client via a macro. The result
is not exactly pretty, but at least it will show more of the task hierarchy
data on the grid. Be wary of over-bloating the grid though, as it quickly
becomes unusably wide.

Hope that helps,
- Jussi

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Dvillal:

In a couple weeks our company will offer a new web part that adds the
Summary Tasks to the My Tasks page display. If you're interested in this,
send me an email off-list and we'll let you know when it becomes available.
Don't forget to remove the nospam from my email address.

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