PS 2007: Is My Tasks view necessary?

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Mac Hart

Is the My Tasks view a necessity? Can we function (project server wise)
without that page?

Our situation:

All our users (team members) only need the timesheet and status reporting.
All team leads, managers, and PMs have Project Pro and can perform task
functions there if not found elsewhere in PWA.

We cannot get the My Tasks view to work -- unexpected error all the time.
Projects are not corrupt and data shows no corruption. We are ready to
migrate users from Project Server (and Pro) 2003 to 2007 over the next
several weeks. We have no time left to troubleshoot this webpart.

Our plan is to remove the My Tasks webpart from the page making it a
non-functional page. Possibly at a later time we will create our own Web
Parts that would replace that function and would be fault tolerant.

Mac Hart
Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA
 
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Jonathan Sofer

"My Tasks" is only really necessary if you plan on having resources input
their hours worked on project tasks and have those hours get approved into
the project plans as input to progress the schedules. If your PMs are the
ones that will be statusing the schedules and you don't care whether the
timesheet hours reported in "My Timesheets" are in sync with the actuals
stored against the schedule then you don't need to use "My Tasks".

Jonathan
 
M

Mac Hart

Jonathan,

We really do want to have the timesheet hours post against the project
actuals. That is our whole reason for timesheets. I talked with our manager
this morning and we may open up a Microsoft support call on this issue.
Something is not working.

On an earlier post, "PS2007 My Tasks, an unexpected error has occurred" I
left some details regarding the event log entry for the earlier error and
the details of an experiment we ran this morning. I don't know if these
would help.

Mac Hart (aka HMH)
Atlanta, GA
 
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Dean

We are running into a problem whereby certain users are receiving "Error"
when trying to access "My Tasks" in PS 2007 PWA. After finding this post, I
ran the posted query, which returned results related to the affected users
(thanks AWS).

Our question is, short of running a SQL statement to update the database and
resolve the orphaned task links, is there another way to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Dean
 
J

Jonathan Sofer

Dean,

1) Open the project being affected
2) Insert the field "Published"
3) Change all the values to "No"
4) Publish the plan
5) Change the values back to "Yes"
6) Publish the plan once more

This will fix the errors. This can be made into a macro as well to speed up
the work.

Jonathan
 
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Dean

Thanks Jonathan,

My project manager performed the steps you listed, and at first it seemed as
though that resolved the issue. However, the schedule with which we were
having the problem no longer appears on the My Tasks page. It does appear in
Project Center however.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dean
 
J

Jonathan Sofer

Sounds like the "Published" field for all tasks on the project needs to be
set back to "Yes" and the plan must be re-published.

Jonathan
 
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Dean

Thanks again Jonathan. The PM re-uploaded and re-published the schedule, and
that resolved the issue.

- Dean
 
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