Multi-Part Question, probably 101-level

[IbanezJem]

Part One: When filling out the Project Web Access (PWA) Timesheets:

If a task has not received all the necessary hours allocated to it by a
deadline, the task end date on the timeline gets pushed out to accommodate
for this. Even if the end date was constrained “Must Finish Onâ€/â€No Later
Thanâ€, the task end date moves out.Is there a way to keep the task bar from
extending? For instance, the Overall Project Summary Bar which shows the end
of a project should not move.

Part Two: Administrative Projects
Can anyone point to a link that work, for the best way to set these things
up?

Part Three: Creating Projects
When saving directly to the server, some functionality seems to be lost and
we do not understand why.
1) In PWA’s Project Center, after clicking on a project, a detailed view of
the project is not created.
2) Cannot add yourself to an Existing Task.

Portfolio Analyzer:
In PWA, why can't a user with admin privs get into Portfolio Analyzer
(Admin, Manage Views, Add, Portfolio Analyzer)? SQL privs seem to be fine

Thanks in advance!

 

[Rod Gill]

You may well get a fuller response if you post to the project server news
group. Re part one, when entering actuals, if a task actually finishes late
Project must update that progress as reported. Otherwise your schedule
becomes fiction and of little use. In fact if you show a task as having
finished on time even if it hasn't, firstly you are lying and secondly you
have an inaccurate baseline from which to re-schedule from. So, my vote is
that Project has it right: a task that has finished late must show a late
finish when updating actuals, anything else is a lie and pure fiction. !

 

[IbanezJem]

Well, sure! I wasn't clear I guess. We can watch this tihng constantly and if
a task gets finished early, the resource enteres their time, the task is
still done whether Project thinks it is or not. So why wouldn't it just stick
to its own constraints?

 

[Rod Gill]

Because when you update a task there is no benefit in having anything except
what actually happened. If the task finishes early and you set actuals of
saying that, Project shows it finishing early. That way succeeding tasks
start earlier as well.