Hours Updated from PWA in Project 2002

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John Webster

I am using MS Project Server and am having resources enter time in daily.
When I conduct an Update through Project Web Access, I notice that some of
the resource's Actual Work (while in the Task Usage View) shows up in Red
and other hours are in Black. I trace this to OLAP and back to Update
History and see that the work appears in a Analyzer view that I created and
in history. Is there any significance as to why some of the Actual Work
shows as Red and others as Black?
 
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Sarah

John,

Red type indicates that the update has not yet been accepted into the
project plan. Black type indicates that it has.

Sarah
 
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John Webster

Sarah,

Thanks for the info but the way I read your note you are referring to time
in PWA. Is that correct? I have not seen a situation where a resource's
time is applied to a Project without going through the approval process
through the Update in PWA (I know in 2002 you can force time into Project
for a resource by physically typing it in, but even in that case I have not
seen it appear in Red. Is this the condition to which you address?).

If I look at a resources time to be accepted in PWA and then look at
Project, the time does not appear in Project. It only appears after
Accepting and then Updating through PWA. When I perform an update from PWA
to Project, I see the time come across, and it is in Black. Even if I
decide not to save initially the time applied to the project it still
appears in Project in Black. On the PWA side I note that time is in Red
until I have Accepted and Updated (including saving the project). Then I
will see the time in Black in the Update History area in PWA. The issue I
see is that I have a few instances where the time is in Red in Project (Task
Usage) and is in Black in Update History - showing that the time was
accepted and updated. If I were to look at the SQL table
MSP_WEB_Transactions, I see the indicator of 3 for the time as being
approved, which is what I should see. However, the time in MS Project is in
Red. This is curious.

John
 
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