Update on % comlete and work in one project

J

Johan Caljé

Is there a way to have one project, where some users update their tasks with
% complete and other users with work.

We want to use it for tasks that are done by an external company (with fixed
price), but we want them to update on task % completation, to track progress.
Other resoures that are on the project should enter work hours.

PWA seems to give only one reporting method per project...
 
G

Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)

Johan:

Project Server doesn't support this, but there is a workaround. If you were
to setup a project with all tasks set to track by percent complete and then
statused each of the outsource tasks by 1% (a trivial amount), and then
changed the tracking method to hours by day and republished, all the tasks
that had no status will change to the new tracking method while the tasks
that show progress will continue to use the tracking method under which they
were started. Be aware that this trick works only once. You won't be able to
add tasks selectively by tracking method.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the books on Project Server"
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

-
 
J

Johan Caljé

Hi Gary,

Tx for the tip. The procedure you describes is too much confusing for our
project managers, so to implement this in an organization is to risky.

anyway, tx for letting me know the trick, it is a nice one...

I assume that the project team is reading the posts in this newsgroup, maybe
they read this post and want implement this in the next version. It should
be very helpfull if such a feature will be possible in epm.

Gary L. Chefetz (MVP) said:
Johan:

Project Server doesn't support this, but there is a workaround. If you were
to setup a project with all tasks set to track by percent complete and then
statused each of the outsource tasks by 1% (a trivial amount), and then
changed the tracking method to hours by day and republished, all the tasks
that had no status will change to the new tracking method while the tasks
that show progress will continue to use the tracking method under which they
were started. Be aware that this trick works only once. You won't be able to
add tasks selectively by tracking method.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the books on Project Server"
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

-
Click to expand...
 
Top