MSP07: My Tasks: Can't Report Hours

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Stacey

Hi!

We recently installed the newest upgrades and CU's to MS Project 2007. Ever
since then, we can not report hours by using My Tasks (we do not use
timesheets). We are set to "Actual Work done and work remaining". The Web
Part shows the view for the week (Timephased view?). This worked fine before
the updates, I feel we must have reset something, but we can't figure out
what.

Thank you so much for your help!!
Stacey
 
R

RoseA

Hi Stacey,

Perhaps the setting for the web part was reset. Edit the My Tasks web part,
and under "Project Web Access" are settings for Duration and Work Format
(hours vs. days). You want hours.

I hope this helps,
Rose
 
S

Stacey

Thank you Rose!

I checked this and it does say hours, but we still can't edit the hours with
My Tasks, it won't let us type in the field.

Any other ideas?

Thank you!!
Stacey
 
S

Stacey

Thanks Dale! I hate to admit this, but for the good of the community I will
:) I had Actual Work Done instead of Hours of Work Done. The article
helped me see that and I had to unpublish and publish for it to start
working. Is the only way to republish the whole project to add the Publish
column and change everything to no then publish then back to yes then
publish?
 
D

Dale Howard [MVP]

Stacey --

If you actually need to "unpublish" a project, then you are doing it
correctly. Hope this helps.
 
D

DogLBer

For what it is worth anecdotally, we had the same problem when we upgraded
SP2 and April. Publishing from PWA did not resolve the condition. I found a
simple Publish from Pro, after changing to Hours, ( Instructions compliments
of this group) worked for 90% of the projects. So I would suggest trying that
first before you go into the tasks to set them to no. JMO.
 
D

Dale Howard [MVP]

DogLBer --

As you know by your own experience, Microsoft messed up a lot of people when
they changed the behavior of the My Tasks page, related to the default
method of tracking progress. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
:)
 
J

JenStover

So what if we want folks to enter Remaining Work?

Can we change back to that option and all will work as expected?
 
D

Dale Howard [MVP]

Jenn --

Your Project Server administrator can simply add the Remaining Work field to
the My Assignments view for the My Tasks page. And yes, the system will
work as expected. This means that if a team member increased the Remaining
Work, and the Task Type is Fixed Units or Fixed Work, then the Duration of
the task will increase as well. And if a team member sets the Remaining
Work to 0h, this shows that the work is completed, perhaps even early, which
would reduce the Duration accordingly. Hope this helps.
 

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