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Using the RESUME field to reschedule incomplete work #projectserver

Since MS provided the ability to plan only using PWA, this has been a really useful feature for some users.  However there has always been a (certainly from my perspective) perceived issue, in that the ability to reschedule incomplete work into the future (a key component of the planning cycle) was only available in MS Project client. The other day I was asked by a customer how they could get around this issue.  They use PWA extensively (cost reasons) for planning but were struggling with realising correct resource forecast data as they PM's were not able to re-forecast their remaining work schedule. As we had recently patched the Project Server to 2013 SP1 + 0614CU I thought I would look at the STOP/RESUME fields in the Project views to see if these were editable, and surprise surprise they were. The stop/resume fields are how MS Project handles task splits and the "update remaining work to restart after" component of rescheduling.  The Stop field will indica...

The evil that is the task field "Published = No" #projectserver

Just a word to the wise... If you are running timesheets in a Project 2013 (online/on prem) solution, you must never set the task level field "Publish" = No Some things that can happen: - you wont be able to view timesheets that include assignments where this flag is in place (web part error) - you wont be able to view Status Approval history where tasks include this flag - General Unhandled Exception in _Statusing.ReadStatusApprovalHistoryForGridJson_ there are other issues... as I catch them I will update the post