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PWA Approval centre : Task & Time sheets, change approver to another admin
Hello Community, please could you help me to identify how can I change the named approver of tasks and time sheets to enable me to specifiy another user (who is already an admin) ? Currently I ...
- Lisa --
Do the following:
1. Log into PWA with Administrator permissions and then navigate to the PWA Settings page.
2. In the Time and Task Management section of the page, click the Timesheet Managers link.
3. On the Timesheet Managers page, add the people whom you want to approve Timesheets.
Next, ask the new Owner to open each of his/her enterprise projects in Microsoft Project and then do the following in each project:
1. Apply the Gantt Chart view.
2. Right-click on the Duration column header and select Insert Column on the shortcut menu.
3. In the list of available columns, select the Status Manager column.
4. Specify his/her own name for EVERY task in the Status Manager column.
5. Hide the Status Manager column.
6. Save and publish the project.
Regarding the second set of steps, these steps must be performed by the new project Owner. They cannot be performed by you. Hope this helps.
Lisa --
Do the following:
1. Log into PWA with Administrator permissions and then navigate to the PWA Settings page.
2. In the Time and Task Management section of the page, click the Timesheet Managers link.
3. On the Timesheet Managers page, add the people whom you want to approve Timesheets.
Next, ask the new Owner to open each of his/her enterprise projects in Microsoft Project and then do the following in each project:
1. Apply the Gantt Chart view.
2. Right-click on the Duration column header and select Insert Column on the shortcut menu.
3. In the list of available columns, select the Status Manager column.
4. Specify his/her own name for EVERY task in the Status Manager column.
5. Hide the Status Manager column.
6. Save and publish the project.
Regarding the second set of steps, these steps must be performed by the new project Owner. They cannot be performed by you. Hope this helps.
Do the following:
1. Log into PWA with Administrator permissions and then navigate to the PWA Settings page.
2. In the Time and Task Management section of the page, click the Timesheet Managers link.
3. On the Timesheet Managers page, add the people whom you want to approve Timesheets.
Next, ask the new Owner to open each of his/her enterprise projects in Microsoft Project and then do the following in each project:
1. Apply the Gantt Chart view.
2. Right-click on the Duration column header and select Insert Column on the shortcut menu.
3. In the list of available columns, select the Status Manager column.
4. Specify his/her own name for EVERY task in the Status Manager column.
5. Hide the Status Manager column.
6. Save and publish the project.
Regarding the second set of steps, these steps must be performed by the new project Owner. They cannot be performed by you. Hope this helps.
- Thank you Dale for your help and support,
apologies for the delayed reply, I haven't been able to test this yet due to co-worker vacations, however I'm sure that following your advice that's going to work 🙂
Thank you again 
Lisa,
Adding another point to what Dale said. If there are more projects, the status manger field can be updated using programmatically using either CSOM/JSOM rather doing manually for each project.
The below url can help you wih the required code.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project-support-blog/project-online-setting-a-status-manager-with-csom/ba-p/362124#:~:text=public%20static%20void%20ReadAndUpdateStatusManager%20%28%29%20%7B%20%2F%2F%20Load,context.Projects.GetByGuid%20%28%29%20csom.PublishedProject%20project%20%3D%20GetProjectByName%20%28projectName%2C%20context%29%3B
- Rajkumar A- Thanks for that additional information, I haven't tried it out yet but I'm sure thats going to be very useful for projects with a lot of data 🙂
Thanks again
