Accepted, Not Yet Planned

Add ability to see details for deleted (canceled) projects

In WorldServer, if a project was canceled, we could still open and see details of the project and any information logged as to why it was canceled. In TE, once a project is deleted, it is like it never existed, except if you run a report to see deleted projects. You cannot open the project to see any details. Since canceling a project does not exist in TE, our assumption would be that delete would work the same way.

Russell Banton

  • This is a very important status on the project level. How can a project show Completed when all the tasks are Cancelled? 

  • We should have an option to cancel or terminate a project, rather than just deleting it. This would put the project in a "terminated" or "canceled" state, rather than completely deleting it. This is a reasonable expectation, as there may be situations where a project needs to be stopped or paused, but the work or data associated with it should not be completely erased. We propose implementing a 'Cancel/Terminate' option for projects, allowing them to remain active but in a cancelled/Terminate state

  • Voting for this feature. If all the tasks show 'cancelled', but project shows 'Completed', it is tricky for reporting and tracking. 

  • Essentially, this boils down to us adding a "Cancelled" project status, which does not exist yet. Then we have Cancelled vs. Deleted.

    As mentioned here, the complexity comes from the reporting angle, some cancelled projects you may want in reporting, some you may not, depending on the reason for the cancellation. So we probably have to make it configurable.

  • This would be also important for us as sometimes clients are deleting projects and we do not have any chance to find them in TE.