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How to make % Work Complete and Actual Work independent of each other
Hi there, On the following https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/percent-complete-fields-84ec5068-4a34-497c-97eb-e12b6dc47cc5, it says the following "By default, changes to a task's percent co...
- BlissL --
I think you are going down the wrong road, my friend. On the Tasks page in PWA, ask your Project Online app admin to add the Remaining Work column, if it is not already displayed. In your example, the proper process for the task with 6 hours of Work would be as follows:
1. Enter 2h in the Actual Work field
2. Set the Remaining Work field value to 0h
Project Online would then calculate the % Work Complete values as 100% for you. Also, regarding the option you changed in the Project Options dialog, I would recommend you change it back to its default setting. That setting ties the % Complete and % Work Complete values together, which I believe is a good thing.
Hope this helps.
BlissL --
I think you are going down the wrong road, my friend. On the Tasks page in PWA, ask your Project Online app admin to add the Remaining Work column, if it is not already displayed. In your example, the proper process for the task with 6 hours of Work would be as follows:
1. Enter 2h in the Actual Work field
2. Set the Remaining Work field value to 0h
Project Online would then calculate the % Work Complete values as 100% for you. Also, regarding the option you changed in the Project Options dialog, I would recommend you change it back to its default setting. That setting ties the % Complete and % Work Complete values together, which I believe is a good thing.
Hope this helps.
I think you are going down the wrong road, my friend. On the Tasks page in PWA, ask your Project Online app admin to add the Remaining Work column, if it is not already displayed. In your example, the proper process for the task with 6 hours of Work would be as follows:
1. Enter 2h in the Actual Work field
2. Set the Remaining Work field value to 0h
Project Online would then calculate the % Work Complete values as 100% for you. Also, regarding the option you changed in the Project Options dialog, I would recommend you change it back to its default setting. That setting ties the % Complete and % Work Complete values together, which I believe is a good thing.
Hope this helps.
Awesome, thank you so much again Dale, that does make sense.
Another related question, is there any way to auto fill in the Actual Finish date as the date the Task was marked completed?
