How do users Change Work Days

[Jo]

The Administrator's Guide says that we should either
allow "Change Work Days" or "Create Administrative
Projects," but not both. We feel that "Change Work Days"
is what we want, but I cannot figure out where users
submit such changes. In Project Web Access, if a Team
Member selects Tasks, Notify your manager of time you will
not be available for project work, the user gets an error
message, "You are not assigned to any tasks on any
administrative project, such as vacation, sick, or
bereavement." Of course they're not assigned to such
tasks; we turned Administrative Projects off, in favor of
Change Work Days. What am I missing?
Thanks,
--Jo

 

[Garon Line \(Renown\)]

'Change work days' is based on changing the Resource
Calendars for the Resources in the Resource Pool.

You should review the 'Microsoft Office Enterprise
Project Management Solution End User Training Kit' page
30+ details on using Calendars for
(Projects/Tasks/Resources)

Personally I would not go this way as it adds an extra
dimension of complexity.

My personal preferences is that all resources time should
be assigned to either Actual or Administrative Projects
with a Project Priority set high for the Admin. Project.

This way all resource leveling (manual/automated) is done
using the same mind set. That is the resource are
working on an actual or admin task and can be easily re-
assigned.

Notify Your Manager of Time you will be unavailable is
simply opening the Admin project to allow the Resource to
assign themselves to the Admin project task. This is
using the Admin projects model an not the Calendar model.

You must first;
a) create the admin project (Project Professional)
b) assign the user to the tasks on that project or allow
them to assign themselves to tasks on that project.

Hope this helps you get started.

I would do some reading on Resource Calendars and
leveling before making a call.

Regards
Garon Line
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Is the End User Training Kit a proprietary document, or
would it be under a different name?

 

[Garon Line]

It was off a CD Microsoft were handing at the project
conference.

If you e-mail me direct I can forward it to you.

Its a 6MB file though so you will need to ensure you can
receive large files.

Regards
Garon Line

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Cristina --

If you are using Project Server 2003, there is an "Assign myself to an
existing task" link in the sidepane on the left side of the View My Tasks
page. Be aware that this feature has caused considerable problems when a
resource assigns himself/herself to a task at the same time the manager has
assigned the resource to the same task. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
Denver, Colorado
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"

Hi,

I created an administrative project, and I want to allow the users to

assign themselves to tasks on that project.