Server 2002 admin projects

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Michelle

Hi Guys,

I have been trying to create an administrative project
from Project Pro 2003 on Project Server 2002 so that I can
track non-project time. When I try and save a project
from Pro 2003 as an administrative project I get told that
I do not have sufficient permissions. This is strange
because I have full admin permissions on the server with
the account I log on with.

I don't have any other accesss or permissions issues, just
this one.

Any thoughts about this would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

Michelle
 
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Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Michelle:

Project Server 2002 does not support Project 2003 Administrative projects.
In 2002, you use standard projects for this.
 
M

Michelle

Thanks Gary, I kind of guessed this unfortunately.

Given this then, what is the best way of capturing non-
project and non-working time with Pro 2003 and Server
2002 ?

I can see a section in server where you can set you non-
project/working categories that will appear in people's
task sheet page on the server, but I do not see how this
time can be collated, or viewed in a collated fastion,
either by total reported time by task or by person.

If instead the easier way is for you to set up a regular
project to collect non-working/project time, how would you
define the tasks such that people can report time to them
as they expend it, but not such that the tasks take a
fixed amount of a persons schedulable time. For instance
unexpected IT issues that stop work. I don't want to
define a task that is a recurring number of hours each
week that they may be able to bill time to. Also, if I
create a task that is insignificantly short, say 1 minute,
as soon as someone bills time to it, the remaining hours
drop to 0 and the task is considered complete.

I just rambled there for a bit but wanted to show that I
have tried to put some thought into this.

Thanks for any help,

Michelle
 
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Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Michelle:

I prefer fixed-duration tasks, non-effort driven, low percentage of units on
the assignments 1 to 2% and train your users to manage remaining work or
you'll have to.
 
M

Michelle

Thanks again Gary. That's good advice.

What about those nonworking/project categories you can set
up in Server itself ? I can see how people can fill in
their time for those categories but I don't see how it's
easily collatable. Does it get stored in the database
somewhere, or can you access under the Portfollio Analyser
at all ?

Sorry to ask these questions, I'd much rather read than
ask, but I can't find much info out there on this, even
in 'Managing with MS Project 2002'.

Thanks,

MIchelle
 
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Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Michelle:

Why do we want to bring those things into the discussion after settling on
the administrative projects?<g>
 
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