We are about to start using Administrative time instead of Time-off projects. 
 The question I have received is when you click on the button to Plan 
Administrative Time, there is a row for committed and a row for planned.  
I've told my team to enter their desired time off in the planned field, but 
what and when is the committed row used for?

Sheri --

I recommend that people use the Planned line for future planned 
Administrative time, such as for vacation, and use the Committed line for 
past Administrative time already used, such as for sick leave.  Hope this 
helps.

-- 
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
VP of Educational Services
msProjectExperts
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We write the books on Project Server"


"Sheri" <Sheri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> We are about to start using Administrative time instead of Time-off 
> projects.
> The question I have received is when you click on the button to Plan
> Administrative Time, there is a row for committed and a row for planned.
> I've told my team to enter their desired time off in the planned field, 
> but
> what and when is the committed row used for? 

Dale is correct.

Planned will work like the scheduled time in any MSP task.  so use this for 
planning future time away.  Committed is when users have taken the time off 
and are reporting it.

the reporting DB only has one row for this so there is a formula as to what 
data is taken.

When "in progress" - planned hours are sent to the Reporting DB unless there 
is a committed value and 0 planned to not get transfered either.

When "submitted" - only the committed values are taken to the reporting db.

The thought is that you might report to be out of the office for 40 hours 
but then work calls and you end up working say 2 hours each day.  you then 
should report committed of 6 hrs per day not 8 and that will affect your 
schedule in retrospect.

Hope this helps.

Dave
www.projectserverexplained.com

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:

> Sheri --
> 
> I recommend that people use the Planned line for future planned 
> Administrative time, such as for vacation, and use the Committed line for 
> past Administrative time already used, such as for sick leave.  Hope this 
> helps.
> 
> -- 
> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
> VP of Educational Services
> msProjectExperts
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
> "We write the books on Project Server"
> 
> 
> "Sheri" <Sheri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:BACCF976-AC02-4E2D-A274-933C1866E818@microsoft.com...
> > We are about to start using Administrative time instead of Time-off 
> > projects.
> > The question I have received is when you click on the button to Plan
> > Administrative Time, there is a row for committed and a row for planned.
> > I've told my team to enter their desired time off in the planned field, 
> > but
> > what and when is the committed row used for? 
> 
> .
> 

David --

Thanks for following up on my reply, confirming my answer as correct, and 
giving new information I did not know!  :)

-- 
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
VP of Educational Services
msProjectExperts
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We write the books on Project Server"


"David Ducolon" <DavidDucolon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:E4E25F6D-C7A0-4E85-A539-E9387A9871C9@microsoft.com...
> Dale is correct.
>
> Planned will work like the scheduled time in any MSP task.  so use this 
> for
> planning future time away.  Committed is when users have taken the time 
> off
> and are reporting it.
>
> the reporting DB only has one row for this so there is a formula as to 
> what
> data is taken.
>
> When "in progress" - planned hours are sent to the Reporting DB unless 
> there
> is a committed value and 0 planned to not get transfered either.
>
> When "submitted" - only the committed values are taken to the reporting 
> db.
>
> The thought is that you might report to be out of the office for 40 hours
> but then work calls and you end up working say 2 hours each day.  you then
> should report committed of 6 hrs per day not 8 and that will affect your
> schedule in retrospect.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dave
> www.projectserverexplained.com
>
> "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Sheri --
>>
>> I recommend that people use the Planned line for future planned
>> Administrative time, such as for vacation, and use the Committed line for
>> past Administrative time already used, such as for sick leave.  Hope this
>> helps.
>>
>> -- 
>> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
>> VP of Educational Services
>> msProjectExperts
>> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
>> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
>> "We write the books on Project Server"
>>
>>
>> "Sheri" <Sheri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BACCF976-AC02-4E2D-A274-933C1866E818@microsoft.com...
>> > We are about to start using Administrative time instead of Time-off
>> > projects.
>> > The question I have received is when you click on the button to Plan
>> > Administrative Time, there is a row for committed and a row for 
>> > planned.
>> > I've told my team to enter their desired time off in the planned field,
>> > but
>> > what and when is the committed row used for?
>>
>> .
>>