RE: Actual work from unopened projects not reflected in resource usage

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You can use PWA to get your rollups of Actuals and other such data. The
behavior is not a bug because the tool was never designed to do what you want.

Showing all work across all projects is useful for planning assignments.
Analyzing Actuals is a retrospective analytical activity that is handled in
PWA.

I do agree that the advice to open all projects is not practical. It should
say to use PWA.
--
Reid McTaggart
EPM Architect
Microsoft


"MikeR" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a perplexing problem. It appears that when I open one or a few
> files (out of many) from Project Server, actual work from unopened projects
> is not reflected in the work rollup. See article 888638 on Microsoft's site
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;888638&spid=2525&sid=global
>
> The suggested workaround is to open all files relating to the resource in
> question. While this works, this is impractical in my environment because:
>
> 1 - there are hundreds of files
> 2 - some files, such as those representing administrative time, were not
> meant to be managed by any other than a few admins (this is a current
> business practice of ours)
> 3 - I may not have access to every relevant file
>
> Is there another way around this? Anyone know of plans to fix it?
>
> As an aside, this behavior certainly looks like a bug to me - after all, it
> appears that I can see the planned work from unopened files just fine. The
> article cited above spins this as a "behavior" rather than a "problem" or
> "bug", though I haven't found any reference in the regular documentation that
> would lead to this conclusion. I would hope that someone is looking at a
> more satisfactory resolution than opening all files. Anyone out there have
> additional details on what might be in store?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
.

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