Cannot delete or reassign tasks or assignments with protected actuals

Question

I am working on Project server 2013 and trying to update one of the projects which gives an error: "cannot delete or reassign tasks or assignments with protected actuals".
I need to change the entire plan (please note that this project is published to EPM and already has actuals in it), NOw I have checked out the project in MPP and trying to remove some tasks and I get this error"cannot delete or reassign tasks or assignments
with protected actuals".
Please suggest how these tasks can be deleted and how I can update the project plan back to EPM.
Is there anything that we need to turn off in the server settings to allow changes to the project plan. and Also unprotect the actuals in the project plan.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
It might be that you have the option "Only allow task updates via Tasks and Timesheets" enabled in the "task settings and display" under the "protect user updates" section. This prevents the project owner (project manager) from
updating (adding, deleting) any actuals directly in the project plan. It enforces actuals to come from the timesheet/task updates once approved. 
Thus it is normal that you cannot modify an entire task with some actuals. The best practice would be not to modify any actuals, just updating the remaining work, eventually reassigning it to another resource. But in case you do need to make changes to some
past activities, then you have to disable the option I mentionned above.
See reference
here (for 2010 version bu still applicable).
For reassigning a task with actuals, you can for example open the project build team dialog box, select the new and the old resources from left and right side and click on "replace". Here is another
method from the task tab.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |