Re: "My Tasks"--Fixed Duration & Fixed Units

Probably best to repost in the Project Server newsgroup microsoft.public.project.server as that's where those folks hang out.

That being said ... you say "and keep the set dates for one of the published tasks". Are you setting dates? Best to not set start or finish dates in Project. Let Project compute them. Otherwise you get unwanted constraints. Perhaps this is what's causing problems?

If you actually set the task as fixed duration, I wonder why/how Project or Project Server would change it. You might not have done what you thought you did?

--rms

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dhrisd wrote:
I created a new project plan as a fixed duration so that the plan and tasks created would ALL be fixed duration. The tasks published correctly and I was able to change the hours and keep the set dates for one of the published tasks. But when I created a new task in "My Tasks" for that project plan it treated that task as fixed units—which was not what we were wanting but what we were suspecting would happen. Anyway, the only way to change my newly created task in "My Tasks" (that I know of so far) to fixed duration is by Project Pro (change the task information area from fixed units to fixed duration, then save it and then publish it). Is there a way to control the creation of tasks in "My Tasks" to how the project plan is setup/saved (i.e. fixed duration, fixed unit, etc.) and/or is there a setting somewhere on the server that can let us switch the creation of tasks in PWA from fixed unit to fixed duration??? Oh, I forgot to mention we are using 2007. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.

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  • Re: "My Tasks"--Fixed Duration & Fixed Units
    ... To confirm for the second time, there is NO WAY to set up Project Server ... 2007 so that new tasks submitted from the My Tasks page in PWA appear as ... Fixed Duration tasks in the Microsoft Project plan automatically. ...
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  • Re: "My Tasks"--Fixed Duration & Fixed Units
    ... To confirm for the second time, there is NO WAY to set up Project Server 2007 so that new tasks submitted from the My Tasks page in PWA appear as Fixed Duration tasks in the Microsoft Project plan automatically. ...
    (microsoft.public.project)
  • Re: "My Tasks"--Fixed Duration & Fixed Units
    ... In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to the Microsoft Project desktop only. ... When a user submits a new task from the My Tasks page in PWA, and the PM approves the new task, the system creates the new task as a Fixed Units task in Project Professional, in spite of whatever default settings you have specified for Task Type. ... There is no way around this behavior, so you need to make sure your PMs change the Task Type to Fixed Duration manually after approving task updates. ... This is one more reason why we recommend as a best practice that your PMs accept their task updates directly within the project plan in Project Professional 2007, rather than from the Task Updates page in PWA. ...
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  • Re: "My Tasks"--Fixed Duration & Fixed Units
    ... To confirm for the second time, there is NO WAY to set up Project Server ... 2007 so that new tasks submitted from the My Tasks page in PWA appear as ... Fixed Duration tasks in the Microsoft Project plan automatically. ...
    (microsoft.public.project)
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