Missing task from timesheets

Question

Missing tasks from timesheets. This is despite the user having the task assigned for the correct period and the plan being published.

Answer 1

Indeed you should use the automatic scheduling mode, since you'll have all the calcuation power of MS Project. I'd advice to use manual scheduling on project start when some information are not known and project managers need to enter just a few information
such as the phases' name and duration.
Please note that it has to be/can be defined at different level:
1) Since you work with Project Server, I'd advice to go to thedditional server settings:
Select Manually Scheduled tasks can be published to team members (which is enabled by default) if you want to allows project managers to publish their manually scheduled task to team members.
For Default task mode in new projects, select one of the two following settings:
                     - Manually Scheduled:You have to enter duration, start, and finish dates for your tasks. By default, this option is selected.
                     - Automatically Scheduled:The scheduling engine automatically calculates durations and start dates and finish dates for your tasks.
Select Users can override default in Project Professional (which is enabled by default) if you want to enable your Project Professional users to override the default task mode settings that you selected.
2) Then note that it can be controlled from MS Project Pro (or PWA schedule page of the project):
with the field "task mode"
with the buttons in the task ribbon
from the options menu, schedule
See references below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg982975(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2009/10/23/project-2010-introducing-user-controlled-scheduling.aspx
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |