Automatically Populate An Enterprise Field

[Joseph R. Ollero]

I have a enterprise field that I’ve created called True Finish Date. This
field is intended to show the date that the task was completed and submitted
to pwa. I haven’t been able to find a field that tracks the actual
completion date, rather everything basically duplicates what has been
recorded in the project schedule. How can we capture the date the task was
submitted to pwa, then automatically populate the Enterprise Field True
Finish Date?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Joseph --

The true finish date of a task is its Actual Finish date. The true start
date of a task is its Actual Start date. It sounds like your organization
is using the % Work Complete method of tracking progress. Using that method
of tracking progress, when a resource marks a task as 100% complete, the
system assumes that the Actual Start date of the task was the scheduled
Start date, and that the Actual Finish date is the scheduled Finish date.
This is the default behavior of Microsoft Project when using the % Work
Complete method of tracking.

If you want your team members to give you the true start and finish dates of
their task work, your Project Server administrator should add the Actual
Start and Actual Finish dates to the My Assignments view (Server Settings -
Manage Views). Then require your team members to provide you with their
Actual Start dates on task work, they estimated completion of work (% Work
Complete), and their Actual Finish dates. Hope this helps.

 

[Sean Hanson]

This would take some custom code to read the transaction table to see the
date submitted to PM for update and compare the remaining work to be zero.
This type question would best be asked on the Developer group.
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Sean Hanson

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