Just to add to the pile : I completely agree with Skye and Heather.

LOL - Love that!

I like Doug's solution as always. Another way I address it is simply in our Weekly Status Meetings. I pull up a Dashboard that has a report for the Tasks that were Completed Last Week, and another report for the tasks that are Scheduled for This Week (which includes any past incomplete tasks). So it...

How do you know I meant you? 

Hi Lila, I don't believe so. The % Complete field at the individual Task level is very manual. The only way I can think of to accomplish this (other than some kind of API or app from Doug) would be to have a separate task for each person under a Parent or Summary Task. Then when they mark each task ...

No worries. The next thing I would check would be the Global settings under Setup to make sure the emails you're expecting to see are turned on?

Yep that would be my first guess as well.

Hi Sydney, Yes, WF should already do this for you. Just make sure you have the notifications turned on and the successor task has to be assigned to an Individual (not a Team name or Role). Then that Individual should get an email when the predecessor is complete. They might have to have a Work licen...

Hi Amy, Yeah they don't impact your project % complete. That'll be driven by your Planned Hours or Duration, depending on how you configured it. I hear you on the large disparities in the Projected vs Planned. And Doug's workaround is the only solution I know of if you want to go through that. Or th...

Hi Amy, I don't know of a way to do that, but they shouldn't be causing much harm. Dependencies in the project don't use the Commit Date. It's just a date for the Assignee to communicate when they'll be done (and view their work in My Work or Home). Once you have that information you can either agre...