Pending Actuals

[RichardJ]

I'm not sure whether you are going to be able to answer this one.

My client is using MSP 2003 as a front end scheduling tool with CA Clarity
8.0. Tasks and assignments are being created in MSP and saved back to the
Clarity database. Actual time is then being recorded through Clarity and
posted to the project schedules.

The problem seems to be where resources are submitting future time, thereby
creating 'Pending Actuals'. The time between the last Actual and the start
of the 'Pending Actual' is being seen as Actual time and any attempt to input
'Work' is automatically converted to Actual.

How can MSP be stopped from doing this?

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

I'd first try to stop the users from submitting future work.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

In Project you cannot have planned work on an assignment scheduled before
any actual work.
Actual Work is history, Remaining work is planned future and it is generally
accepted that histiry precedes future.

Hope this helps,

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
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[JEzell]

RichardJ,

There's nothing wrong or unusual about "pending actuals". My company also
uses MSP 2003 with CA Clarity (but 7.5, not 8.0). Pending actuals are merely
hours on "saved" timesheets that have not posted yet. We post once per week,
so as soon as someone enters hours on their timesheet against a task and
saves the timesheet, those hours are then "pending" until the timesheet is
approved, and the time period is posted. Your client may post more (or less)
frequently. Also, in order for the timesheets to be posted, they must be
approved. If they're never approved, the hours will remain pending --
forever.

These pending hours have no effect on Work. You should be able to adjust
Remaining Work for a task that has posted Actual Work without the Actual Work
changing. We do that all the time.

If you are sure that's what's happening, I suggest you contact Clarity
support. I don't think it's a problem with MS Project.

Jim