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    How can I  disable the ability to edit Start and Finish dates on the PWA and project professinal desktop?

    I want to give my users an access to edit actual finish date, but not Start or Finish date.

     I know that with changing the actual finish we automaticly change the finish date, but I don't want them to change the finish date unless it gets change with changing actual finish date. Also can we do the same thing in project professional desktop client?

    We got Project server 2007 SP2, is it possible?

    Thanks,

    Monday, November 15, 2010 10:58 PM

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    You can not block editing of Start and Finish date.

    Finish date will ALWAYS change to be the same as Actual Finish when an Actual Finish is entered. Same with Start and Actual Start. This is the way Project is designed to work.

    If you want to maintain the original planned dates, you should save a baseline for the project. Baselines can be protected (at least baseline 0 - 6 can be protected) by disallowing project managers from saving protected baselines.

    You should always use baselines to maintain a historical record. That is what they are designed for.

    Jack Dahlgren blogs at:
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    Monday, November 15, 2010 11:43 PM
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    Thanks.

    I totally understand that finish date will change with changing the actual finish date, but I want to prevent changing the finish date, and I do not have any problem with users to put/change the actual finish date because we have baselines.

    I found some ways on the internet to disable Start and Finish Date Editing, and was just wondering if Microsoft recommend that or not.

    In this case everyone can change the start and finish date of a project, and the only way that we can find out is to setup a SQL trigger based of our base lines.

    That would be helpful to just disable editing the Start and finish date on PWA and project professional desktop for some users.

    Thanks…

    Bahram

     

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:02 AM
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    Bahram --
     
    You can actually lock the Start and Finish fields in the My Tasks page to prevent users from editing the dates, but it requires a SharePoint hack to lock these two columns.  Refer to Tony Zink’s excellent blog post on this hack at:
     
     
    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"

    • Marked as answer by B.D Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:42 PM
    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:48 AM
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    But note that Dale's approach does not affect Project Professional users. Any change to a task duration on the critical path will change the project finish as well. What is your reason for not allowing change to start and finish?

     

    Jack Dahlgren blogs at:
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    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:55 AM
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    Dale,

     

    Thanks, Yes, I was talking about that site, and wondering if it is not against the Microsoft rules, and if we do it we are not breaking any rules.

    Thank you.

     

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:42 PM
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    Jack,

     

    We would like to track all the finish and start days to make sure we have a right template for each project, and if a project needs more time we can change it in template level and we don't like the PMs to change the finish date by their own.

    We might move forward with SQL trigger to just notify if anything changed.

    Thanks...

    Bahram

     

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:46 PM
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    BD --
     
    To the best of my knowledge, you are not breaking any rules, either by Microsoft or by anyone else.  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"

    Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:15 AM
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    Could you please send me a link on how to disable start and finish dates in my tasks view in PWA. I only want them to update work and remaining hours.

    Thanks
    Wednesday, June 7, 2017 2:21 PM
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    Hi Mark,

    Please review the VIEWS within PWA Settings and either set the fields to read only, or remove them from the view.

    Ben Howard [MVP] | web | blog | book

    Wednesday, June 7, 2017 2:32 PM