Repeated Tasks in a Project with multi-site deployments cannot be identified in Timesheets

[Dimitris Tranoudis]

Our Project Managers are using Clarity to manage projects that deploy infrastructure to multiple sites of our customers. They are thus repeating tasks  in the projects under differing though summary tasks. As the Timesheets do not show the summary task ie the full path of the task, our engineers cannot recognize which of the identical tasks needs to be registered/timetracked. Is there a way to make appear the full path of the task or at least the summary task in the timesheet within the same project?

Network Inventory & IP Addressing Implement & Update	3,00
Network Inventory & IP Addressing Implement & Update	3,00
Network Inventory & IP Addressing Implement & Update	3,00

Of course enhancing the name of the task with the site name is an option, but error prone, lousy and not productive when managing hundreds site with tenths of tasks.

Any idea, suggestion, proposal would be more than welcome.

[David Chiumento]

Hi Dimitris,

check out the Timesheet Options via ..../niku/nu#action:timeadmin.timeTrackOptions

There you can add Information about Phase and Parent (name or Id or both). With that information your users should be able to differentiate if it is the Network Inventory Task for Land X or Site A or any other relevant information.

Hope this helps?

have a great day!

David

[Kathryn Ellis]

Thanks @David Chiumento for your answer. 

@Dimitris Tranoudis, Here is some additional information that might be helpful.

Here is an example configuration. You can also add in unique Task IDs and the IDs automatically show up appended to the Task Name.

I added the 'Parent' field in my configuration. 

To push this configuration for all users, toggle OFF the Timesheet Option to not allow end user configuration. 

Now click the 'Save' button to save the changes.

Then click the 'Apply to All Resources' button to push the change to all users. 

Later you can enable this option again if you want to allow users to change the configuration.

Here is an example WBS showing the Phase, Summary Tasks and the detail Task with a unique ID. 

Because Timesheet Options has the 'Parent' field configured, you can see the direct parent task as a column in the timesheet.

It does not matter how many levels of summary tasks you have in between the top 'Phase' task and the direct 'Parent' Summary task. 

You can also see the Task ID appears on the detailed task row next to the task name. 

[Dimitris Tranoudis]

Thank you both @David Chiumento and @Kathryn Ellis for your prompt and very helpful advice. Problem Solved!