Timesheet Approval - 2 Questions

At the end of June we went live with Project Server 2003. Since our go live
there are 2 questions I cannot seem to find the answer to pertaining to
timesheet approval. They are:

1) Even though a resource selects update all when submitting their
timesheet, not all 40 hours appears on the Approve Timesheet view. If the
manager goes into View resource assignments they can verify the resource has
submitted 40 hours. The timesheet behavior appears to be random. Can anyone
explain this behavior?

2) In a timesheet some of the entries appear to be colored coded in red,
some in blue and others in black. Can anyone provide a definition for this
color coding?

Mike
Tue Aug 23 08:09:29 CDT 2005


Hi Mary,

Try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project
Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information
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Mike Glen
Project MVP


MaryTech wrote:
> At the end of June we went live with Project Server 2003. Since our
> go live there are 2 questions I cannot seem to find the answer to
> pertaining to timesheet approval. They are:
>
> 1) Even though a resource selects update all when submitting their
> timesheet, not all 40 hours appears on the Approve Timesheet view.
> If the manager goes into View resource assignments they can verify
> the resource has submitted 40 hours. The timesheet behavior appears
> to be random. Can anyone explain this behavior?
>
> 2) In a timesheet some of the entries appear to be colored coded in
> red, some in blue and others in black. Can anyone provide a
> definition for this color coding?

Nancy
Thu Aug 25 15:52:10 CDT 2005

In answer to #2 - the entries in red usually represent information a user
saved to the server but the 'update all' option has not been executed. Once
the user selects 'update all' those red entries usually turn black.

A guess on #1 - could a project manager be able to accept time from
resources on his/her plan? If so, the reource manager would not see those
hours for approval (since they would be approved by someone else) but would
still see them under resource assignements.

"MaryTech" wrote:

> At the end of June we went live with Project Server 2003. Since our go live
> there are 2 questions I cannot seem to find the answer to pertaining to
> timesheet approval. They are:
>
> 1) Even though a resource selects update all when submitting their
> timesheet, not all 40 hours appears on the Approve Timesheet view. If the
> manager goes into View resource assignments they can verify the resource has
> submitted 40 hours. The timesheet behavior appears to be random. Can anyone
> explain this behavior?
>
> 2) In a timesheet some of the entries appear to be colored coded in red,
> some in blue and others in black. Can anyone provide a definition for this
> color coding?