A recent request from a user was to be able to have the work values displayed in the Assignment Details Page display as hours rather than days. Sadly in Project Server 2010 the option to “Edit Page” is not available when viewing the Assignment Details Page from the “Site Actions” tab normally displayed in the top left hand element of the screen above the Ribbon.
The “Edit Page” option is available in the Assignment Details Page but does not include options for changing the “Work” units as this is controlled by an option on the Tasks Ribbon. Whilst you can change the units for work, duration and date in the “My Assignments” page changing these values does not “pass over” to the details as displayed in the Assignment Details Page.
The values displayed in the “General Details” of the Assignment Details Page are determined in the view settings which can be accessed from Server Settings>Look and Feel>Manage Views>Assignment Details Page.
Even here the options are distinctly limited and relate only to the information displayed within the “Task Properties” section within the “General Details” section of the Assignment Details Page.
The information displayed in the upper “Task Progress” section of the “General Details” section of the Assignment Details Page will be determined by the task update method employed. The three options available are:
1. % complete
2. Actual Work and Remaining Work
3. Actual Work per Time Period
There is also the option for an organisation to lock down or enforce one of these update methods removing choice from the Project Manager.
In addition if you have “Single Entry Mode” enabled this only allows updates to be carried out in the Timesheet and whilst you can edit the “Remaining Work” value as displayed in the tabular elements of both the Timesheet and My Tasks pages which if changed results in both the % complete and finish date changing.
I thought that perhaps making a change in the Schedule Properties for the project in the Project Professional Scheduling client might help but sadly no, the default option is for work to be shown in hours.
So there you have it I am afraid, there is no obvious route to getting work showing in hours rather than days when it comes to the Assignment Details page.
