Re: Tasks appearing on web as read only

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From: Fiona Kerry (fionak_at_xenacom.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: 3 Feb 2004 13:47:36 -0800

Hi Dale,

I found a posting yesterday that helped solve our problem. After we
had changed our company setting for default method of tracking
progress and locked this method down, we then needed to save all
effected projects offline, delete them from project server and
re-import them as enterprise projects. This forced all tasks to adhere
to the new rules and not just those without time against them.

Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Fiona.

"Dale Howard" <dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com> wrote in message news:<u6K6yUe5DHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> Fiona --
>
> If you changed your company's default method of tracking progress, did you
> also "lock down" this method on the Tracking Settings page in PWA? This is
> so that your project managers cannot select their own method of tracking
> progress in the Microsoft Project plan by clicking Tools - Customize -
> Published Fields. If you did not lock down your method of progress, you
> probably should do so.
>
> After you selected a new default method of tracking progress, did you
> republish the assignments in EVERY project? To do so, open every project
> and click Collaborate - Publish - Republish Assignments and then click OK.
> Doing so will "push" the new method of tracking progress to each user's
> time*** in PWA.
>
> In addition, you should know that the tracking method will only be changed
> on tasks in which no progress has been entered. Those tasks that appear to
> be read-only are probably tasks where a % Work Complete value has been
> entered by the team member.
>
> Now, answer a few questions for me and then I will have a solution for you
> on how to "unlock" those read only tasks. First of all, how many projects
> do you currently have in your portfolio of projects? How many of them are
> published? About what percentages of tasks have had progress updated by
> team members in PWA using the old method of tracking progress? I need to
> guauge "how far down the road" you folks are with your implementation, and
> then I can give you an answer. Let me know.
>
> --
> Dale A. Howard
> Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> "We wrote the book on Project Server"
>
>
> "Fiona Kerry" <fionak@xenacom.com> wrote in message
> news:7af9d980.0401281221.54a104f0@posting.google.com...
> > Hi Dale,
> >
> > Initially we couldn't enter progress in any of the columns in the task
> > list or the time*** grid. We have since found your article in the
> > forum that took us through a process of resetting the "Specify the
> > default method for reporting progress on tasks" to "Hours of work done
> > per day or per week.....". Whilst we had limited success by doing
> > this, we're still having problems.
> >
> > We now have selected tasks that are read only, whilst others allow
> > time to be entered in the time*** grid and/or the task list.
> > Unfortunately they remain as read only if any time has already been
> > entered against them.
> >
> > We have changed our domain in the last few weeks, could this be
> > contributing to our problems?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fiona.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Dale Howard" <dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com> wrote in
> message news:<uwS91Ub5DHA.2560@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> > > Fiona --
> > >
> > > What do you mean when you say that the "tasks appearing in web access
> (Task
> > > page) are read only"? Do you mean that you cannot enter progress in any
> of
> > > the columns in the task list (such as % Work Complete, Actual Work, or
> > > Remaining Work) or that you cannot enter progress for any tasks in the
> > > Actual Work row of the time*** grid? Are any of the cells formatted
> in
> > > white in either the task list or the time***? Let me know, as I might
> > > know the source of your problem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dale A. Howard
> > > Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
> > > http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> > > "We wrote the book on Project Server"
> > >
> > >
> > > "Fiona Kerry" <fionak@xenacom.com> wrote in message
> > > news:7af9d980.0401211643.44b7f00@posting.google.com...
> > > > Republishing ALL tasks for my project, results in the tasks appearing
> > > > in web access (Task page) as read only. My permissions have not
> > > > changed, and I am the owner of the project. This now happens to any of
> > > > my projects which I republish, indicating that something has been
> > > > corrupted within my settings or permissions.

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