Thomas --
I'm having trouble understanding what you are trying to accomplish with your
customized Remaining Work field. Specifically, I think your idea is flawed
when you say that you don't want Actual Work to impact Remaining Work. If
I am assigned to work 40 hours on a task and I have completed 30 hours of
Actual Work, are you saying that I don't have 10 hours of Remaining Work
left? So, I don't really understand what you are trying to do.
On the other hand, if you are wanting your team member to give you a
Duration estimate of how many days they think they have left on a task, you
could use a custom enterprise task Duration field, such as the Duration1
field. To do this, complete the following steps:
1. Set up and name a custom enterprise task Duration field in the
Enterprise Global
2. Save and close the Enterprise Global and then close Microsoft Project as
well
3. Log back into Project Server through Microsoft Project
4. Open the first project in which you want to use the custom Duration
field for reporting purposes
5. Click Tools - Customize - Published Fields
6. Select your custom Duration field and copy it to the list on the right
7. Select the "Assignment" option in the Custom field type section
8. Make sure the "Let resource change field" option is selected
9. Click OK
10. Republish the assignments in this project by clicking Collaborate -
Publish - Republish Assignments and click OK
11. Repeat steps #5-10 for every project in which you want to use the
custom Duration field for reporting
Step #10 will "push" the new field to each user's timesheet on their View My
Tasks page. If you are using Project Server 2002, the field will appear on
the far right edge of the task list portion of the timesheet, and the user
will need to drag it to a different position in the timesheet. If you are
using Project Server 2003, your Project Server administrator will need to
customize the Timesheet view to include this column, and then position it
within the columns listed in the timesheet.
To actually see what your people report from this field, you will need to
create a custom Table in Microsoft Project and include the custom Duration
field as one of its columns. Do know this, however: the information
reported by your team members will have absolutely no impact on your project
plan whatsoever. The information in the field will only tell you how many
days the team member estimates that they have left to work on the task. You
will need to use this information to make manual adjustments to the project,
if necessary. Hope this helps.
Thomas said:
I need a field in which project members can report "remaining work". I
cannot use the standard "Remaining Work" field because i don't want "Actual
Work" to automatically influence this field (which is the case with the
standard "Remaining Work"). So I create a cusom enterprise field, but when
it only has the option "task" or "resouce" type on definition. Hence (???)
when I customize published fields I am not able to select "Assigment" as
type of field - only "Task". The consequense is that the field appears all
right in the timesheet view for the project member, but the value entered by
the project member is, apparently, not sent back to Project Professional.
Where can I find a costomizable enterprise duration assignment field?
Please!!!!! Or is there another way to resolve this problem? Basically I
only need a field that can hold a work-type value (duration?) and which is
possible to publish and get updated from the PWA.
