View status reports

A status report is a narrative description of the status for a team member's project work and related work, as well as the goals that he or she has within the organization. Team members and managers can view the requested and archived status reports, as well as the status reports that have been submitted by team members but have not been requested.

What do you want to do?

View the responses from a requested status report

View an archived status report

View an unrequested status report

View the responses from a requested status report

1. On the Quick Launch, under Resources, click Status Reports.

2. To view the reports from team members, under Requests, click the title of the status report that has the responses that you want to view.

   The View Responses page is displayed, listing team members who have submitted responses to the selected status report. Before you can view each team member's response to the status report, select a date range for the specific status report that you want to view.

3. Select a range of dates by using the date picker next to the View status reports from and To boxes, and then click Apply.

4. For each resource in the grid, select the status report responses that you want to view for the corresponding time periods by clicking .

   Missing status report responses are indicated by a question mark .

   Tip: To quickly select the status reports for all the periods within the date range that you indicated, select the row by clicking the team member's name whose report responses you want to view. To see all responses for the selected time period, you can also select a column corresponding to a specific period.

5. Decide how you want to group the status reports:

   • To group the status reports by resource names followed by the due date of the status reports, click Resource name.

   • To group the status reports by the due date of the status reports followed by resource names, click Response date.

6. Click Open to view the status report. The status report that you select will contain all of the resources' responses merged into the same status report that the manager set up.

Tip: Click Export to Word to create a different presentation of the report in Microsoft Office Word or to print the status report.

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View an archived status report

If you are a team member who has submitted a status report to a manager, you can view the past status reports that you submitted. In addition, you can update these reports with new information.

1. On the Quick Launch, under Resources, click Status Reports.

2. To view the reports that you submitted in the past, under Responses, select the report by selecting its row.

   Note: Don't click the name of the report. Clicking the name of the report creates a new status report response.

3. On the Go To menu, click Status Reports: Archive.

4. On the Status Reports Archive page, click the title of the archived report that you want to view.

Tip: You can add additional comments (but not edit previous ones) to the archived status report and then resubmit it to your manager by clicking Send .

View an unrequested status report

You can view an unrequested status report from a team member. These are the status reports that have not been set up by a manager.

1. On the Quick Launch, under Resources, click Status Reports.

2. In the Responses section, click Go To, and then click Status Reports: Miscellaneous.

3. On the Miscellaneous Status Reports page, click the name of the status report response that you want to view.

Tip: Click Export to Word to create a different presentation of the report or to print the status report.

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