PS2007 Timesheets missing totals for the week

[Langhorne]

I was disappointed to see that SP1 didn't address what I consider to be a
glaring omission in how Project Server 2007 handles timesheets -- a column
totalling the effort for the week by task and by project. It's right there
plain as day in PS03, both when viewing My Tasks and printing as a timesheet.
When PS07 separated tasks from timesheets, this feature was removed from
both.

How are people using PS07 timesheets without knowing what the total for the
timesheet period is? Any workarounds, hot fixes, 3rd-party add-ons? This
seems like such a basic function for a timesheet that I still don't
understand why it was removed.

As a side note, I also miss PS03's ability to collapse a project's subtasks
and just list the project total on the timesheet.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Langhorne --

After I applied SP1 to my Project Server 2007 instances, the first thing I
looked at was the My Timesheet page. Like you, I was disappointed, but I
was not surprised.

You might want to point out to your team members that they can get a grand
total for the Timesheet by clicking the Recalculate button and then noting
the Total value to the left of the button. Beyond this, I'm not aware of
any workarounds to this limitation. Sorry. Hope this helps.

 

[Langhorne]

Thanks Dale. This omission continues to baffle me. In your consulting, how
are people dealing with this? As I mentioned, it seems like such a basic
feature for a timesheet. Is anyone else out there bothered by this? Would
custom code via PSI be a solution?

- L

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

L --

In my training and consulting, our clients are living with the bugs and
deficiencies of Project Server 2007. It is the price to pay for new and
powerful technology, that is sometimes clumsy to use. I don't know about
using PSI. You might want to post that as a question in the
microsoft.public.project.developer newsgroup. Hope this helps.