Microsoft® Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed

Best Practices

It is important that your organization thinks through why it needs to record time and what is required to do so. Some organizations see the Tasks page and think that this can be the way to record all time for the organization for both project and accounting purposes. The main focus of the timesheet in Project Server is to record actual work for project reporting. Your organization can use the Managed Time Periods, the Timesheet API, or perhaps other Project Server add-ins from Microsoft partner companies to integrate with accounting systems and to help create one-stop time entry. To do so takes a great deal of design, programming, and testing before you will be able to deploy a robust and accurate accounting timesheet function ...