Comments on: Forecasting Your Work

Comments on: Forecasting Your Work http://blog.projectload.com/archives/2005/03/01/forecasting-your-work/ Your online answer to organizing and tracking work en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:19:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.2 by: Reena Chaba http://blog.projectload.com/archives/2005/03/01/forecasting-your-work/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:29:23 -0400 724:27@http://blog.projectload.com Keith, If an activity is set to the ‘do not forecast’ option, and a user enters data in the ‘hours left’ column instead of the ‘hours today’ column, is there an easy way for the administrator to resolve this? I understand that I will need to reset the estimate back to 0 but do we lose the data the user entered in the ‘hours left’ column altogether? Keith,
If an activity is set to the ‘do not forecast’ option, and a user enters data in the ‘hours left’ column instead of the ‘hours today’ column, is there an easy way for the administrator to resolve this? I understand that I will need to reset the estimate back to 0 but do we lose the data the user entered in the ‘hours left’ column altogether?

]]> by: Keith http://blog.projectload.com/archives/2005/03/01/forecasting-your-work/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:36:48 -0400 843:27@http://blog.projectload.com Thanks for the feedback Reena! Unfortunately there is no easy way to recover the data. The system assumes that if the user types a number in the ‘hours left’ column then he or she is changing the estimated hours. There is simply no way for the system to know the user didn’t intend the hours to apply in the column they were typed in. One other user did report this same problem a few months ago and we changed the system to always keep the column headings on the screen and to display the background color of the ‘hours today’ input field as a light blue so it stands out. On activities a user has marked as “do not forecast", there is really no reason to change the estimated fields. We are always looking for ways to make ProjectLoad easier to use, so we have changed all timesheets to make the “Target Date” and “Hours Left” columns “read only” for activities the user does not wish to forecast. Hopefully this will prevent users from making this mistake in the future and also help people recognize when they have an activity marked as “do not forecast". Thanks for helping us to continue improving the system! Thanks for the feedback Reena! Unfortunately there is no easy way to recover the data. The system assumes that if the user types a number in the ‘hours left’ column then he or she is changing the estimated hours. There is simply no way for the system to know the user didn’t intend the hours to apply in the column they were typed in. One other user did report this same problem a few months ago and we changed the system to always keep the column headings on the screen and to display the background color of the ‘hours today’ input field as a light blue so it stands out.

On activities a user has marked as “do not forecast", there is really no reason to change the estimated fields. We are always looking for ways to make ProjectLoad easier to use, so we have changed all timesheets to make the “Target Date” and “Hours Left” columns “read only” for activities the user does not wish to forecast. Hopefully this will prevent users from making this mistake in the future and also help people recognize when they have an activity marked as “do not forecast".

Thanks for helping us to continue improving the system!

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