SharerPoint V3.0, Project Management Template - Dashboard View

Question

In the Overall Project Status, the last category to the right is the "Overdue Tasks" icon.
How does sharepoint determine if a Task is Overdue for this specific Icon.  Here is what is happenning to me:
Current Date = 11/5/2008
Any Task with an End Date of 11/6/2008 - 12/31/2008 is fine.
However, this icon is showing a task as overdue if the date is 1/1/2009 - 11/4/2009 and NOT overdue if the date is 11/6/2009 - 12/31/2009?
The "Overdue Tasks" view is working as expected, it is showing only tasks with an End Date of Less than Current Date and not = to Complete.  Why is the icon on the Dashboard working differently?  Where is the setting for this icon located so I can change it?
Any help is greatly appreciated
Dave at MB

Answer 1

Hi Dave,
I have confirmed your issue in my test environment.
The cause of the issue is the logic that estimates the Overdue items is not perfect.
You could locate the logic the following detailed steps:
1.     Navigate to the Dashboard in Project Management Section.
2.     Modify the Overall Project Status web part, Click the XSL Editor.
3.     In the opening dialog window, locate to the following highlighted code:
<!-- Overdue Tasks -->
                 <td class="ms-vb" style="text-align:right; height: 22px; vertical-align:middle;">
                <span style="vertical-align:middle">
                         <xsl:value-of select="count($FilteredPeerTasks[@Status != 'Completed' and
(substring-before(@DueDate,'-') &lt; substring-before(ddwrt:TodayIso(),'-')
or
substring(@DueDate,6,2) &lt; substring(ddwrt:TodayIso(),6,2)
or
substring(@DueDate,9,2) &lt; substring(ddwrt:TodayIso(),9,2))])"/>
                </span>
                <xsl:text xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime" ddwrt:nbsp-preserve="yes" disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>&#160;&#160;
                <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test="count($FilteredPeerTasks[@Status != 'Completed' and
(substring-before(@DueDate,'-') &lt; substring-before(ddwrt:TodayIso(),'-')
or
substring(@DueDate,6,2) &lt; substring(ddwrt:TodayIso(),6,2)
or
substring(@DueDate,9,2) &lt; substring(ddwrt:TodayIso(),9,2))]) = 0 ">
                    <img src="images/KPI-0.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-0.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-0.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-0.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-0.gif" align="absmiddle"/>              
                  </xsl:when>
                  <xsl:when test="count($FilteredPeerTasks[@Status != 'Completed' and
(substring-before(@DueDate,'-') &lt; substring-before(ddwrt:TodayIso(),'-')
or
substring(@DueDate,6,2) &lt; substring(ddwrt:TodayIso(),6,2)
or
substring(@DueDate,9,2) &lt; substring(ddwrt:TodayIso(),9,2))]) &lt; 5">
                    <img src="images/KPI-1.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-1.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-1.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-1.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-1.gif" align="absmiddle"/>              
                  </xsl:when>
                  <xsl:otherwise>
                    <img src="images/KPI-2.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-2.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-2.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-2.gif" originalAttribute="src" originalPath="images/KPI-2.gif" align="absmiddle"/>              
                  </xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
                 </td>
If you are familiar with coding, you may find the logic is not perfect.
The logic divide the date into Year, Month and Day, and then estimates separately.
As we have not announced an official update, I suggest you to amend it by yourself.
And I will give code sample written by me for your reference:
number(substring(translate(@DueDate,'-',''),1,8)) &lt; number(substring(translate(ddwrt:TodayIso(),'-',''),1,8))
you could copy the code and replace the highlighted part.
PLEASE NOTE:  The code is not well tested, and I do not guarantee there will not be errors, so some minor debugging may be needed and you should modify based on your requirement.
-lambert
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