How to detect projects/tasks with unpublished approved transactions (task updates) - Project Server 2007

Question in 2 parts.

1. Please confirm the behaviour I see with regards to unpublished approved transactions
2. Then tell me how I detect approved transactions waiting to be published

What I see:

1. Approver has project open in MS Project
2. User submits time
3. Approver approves in PWA
4. Approver Saves and Publishes from MS Project
5. Nothing comes through to Reporting database
6. Close plan
7. Approver goes into Projects Center. Edit Project Properties.
8. Edit Project Properties says there is unpublished time waiting to be saved
9. Time is still waiting to be added to plan so was not in the plan and not published. Until you then save and publish in Edit Project Properties

This means that I cannot simply report on transactions in the Published database which are approved after the publish date. The transaction could have been approved well before publish - but with plan open in MS Project. if no one has gone back and reopened the plan, published and saved it, then the time is still not in reporting.

I don't suppose the Publish concept goes away ever in Project Server? 2013?

mikecro 

MikeCro