Who Does What - One more piece of info

[Kurt Brockett]

The "Who Does What" report is perfect for what I need except for one crucial
piece of info. All of our tasks are a subtask of a larger portion of the
project. Lisitng the individual tasks without the context of the parent
"task category" leaves some odd sounding tasks.

Is there a way to include the parent tasks for the individual task so that
the resource has the entire context?

Example:

I have an "Engineering Tasks" section of tasks.

Say I have tasks 1. Complete code 1. 2. Complete code 2 etc.

When I run the report the assignment only says:

Complete Code 1 <DETAILS DETAILS>.

I want it to be formatted like this:

Engineering Tasks - Complete Code 1 <DETAILS DETAILS> or

Engineering Tasks
Complete Code 1 <DETAILS DETAILS>

etc.

I can provide additional detail if needed.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Kurt,

The Who Does What Report is somewhat hard to edit. The information you
see indented under the Resources name is controlled by the Assignment
Schedule added in Details portion of the report. To the best of my
knowledge, you cannot edit that assignment details.

However, you may get very close to what you need by modifying the
Resource Usage view. If you add the following fields to the Usage Table
(left side) of the Resource Usage view and then print just the left
side, I think you get exactly what you seek.

Add the following fields:
Task Summary Name - shows the name of the Assignment's Parent Task
Assignment Units - shows as Units on the Who Does What Report
Work - already in the Usage table
Assignment Delay - shows as Delay on the Who Does What Report
Start - start of the assignment
Finish - Finish of the assignment

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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