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My Advisicon colleague Manmeet ‘Meeta’ Chaudhari, Project MVP told me the following:

In Project Server 2007 the default permissions allows Team Member to view the project and its details. It is important for a team member to be able to see the details of all the tasks for the projects where they are involved. They might have to work on tasks that depend on tasks to be done by other resources. In this way they can also see whether these tasks are progressing as planned and thereby give the team members an overall picture without having to consult the project manager every time they need to know.

However, in Project Server 2010 there is a slight change in the way permissions are managed, especially because of Demand Management and Governance Workflow.

Thus, by default Team Members in Project 2010 are NOT allowed to view Project Details as opposed to Project Server 2007. To be able to view project schedule in PWA, a user needs “Open project” in group-category permission AND “New Project” in global permissions. Or “Open project” and “Edit project summary fields”.

To enable these permissions:

1. In the PWA, under the quick launch bar click on Server Settings.
2. On the Server Settings page, under Security click on Manage Groups.
3. On Manage Groups page click on Team Members.
4. Under Categories section, click on My Tasks. Under Permission for My tasks Allow “Open Project” permission.
5. Under Global Permission ensure “New Project” is enabled.
6. Click Save button.

 

Enabling such permission can give additional privileges to the Team member. Thus Microsoft has released a hotfix which can fix this issue.

The hotfix is available at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2459112/

 

Thanks Meeta!

 

Regards,  

Tim

Tim Cermak, MBA, PMP

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PM NEED: PMs will very likely want to compare project baseline values with submitted actuals when reviewing and approving task updates from project resources in Project Server 2010.

PROBLEM: The problem is that Microsoft has not provided users with a way to insert any tracking fields in the Project Server 2010 Approval Center view (see screen shot below). The tracking fields are not available to add to the view through Configure Columns (in the view).

 

Figure A. PWA does not allow users to add baseline (tracking) fields to the Approval Center view.

 

Neither is there a way to modify the Approval Center view (and thus, those fields) through Server Settings/Look and Feel/Manage Views either, so it cannot be added to any Categories or modified.

SOLUTION: Our team at Advisicon has identified a method for viewing that information quickly and easily, without leaving PWA.

Someone with administrator permissions can add the baseline (tracking) fields to the Tasks Tracking view through Server Settings/Look and Feel/Manage Views. This will make those tracking fields available in the Preview Updates view, which you access from the Approvals Center view.

 

Figure B. Add baseline fields to the Tasks Tracking view through Server Settings/Look and Feel/Manage Views.

 

Figure C. Preview Updates impact on Project schedule

 

In the Approvals Center view, a PM can select a task, click on the Preview Updates button, and select the Tasks Tracking view. (See Figure C.)

A PM can use this customized view to compare submitted actuals with their baseline values. (See Figure D.)

 

Figure D. Compare baseline, actual, variance, and other values in the Tasks Tracking view.

This is better than methods that require the PM use Project client. This way keeps the PM in PWA and in the Update Center area, allowing the PM to decide which task updates to accept/approve or reject.

-Kevin Williamson, MCTS, PMP