Workflow Help: When adding a new project resource, the Reviewer field updates with the direct manager

Question

Hello Planview Community! I’m looking for some help to develop a workflow that triggers when the project Resources field has been updated with a new resource. When adding a new resource, we would like for that resource’s direct manager to automatically be added as a Reviewer to the project.  This will help streamline some of our stakeholder management. Instead of PMs having to manually look up the direct managers for status reports, they will automatically be listed as a Reviewer.

mikayla.martin · Accepted Answer

Hi Athena,Here is a sample WFR (on Resource Link) for achieving this:You will want this to have a ‘Run Time’ of ‘When a new record is created’ so it only fires when the resource is added. You can add evaluation criteria to filter out certain situations you don’t want this to trigger on, for example, (1) when Direct Manager field is NULLI would recommend checking the ‘Ignore if already exists’ at the bottom of this action as many Resources on one Project could have the same Direct Manager.

Ami Faran · Answer

Hi Athena, automating with such a WFR is possible but may become cumbersome if resourceallocation changes a lot. If themanagers are typically the samepool of managers that will oversee resources in most/all projects, maybe consider adding these reviewers automatically on any new project upon creation, instead of making it a resource based trigger. That is if the intent to have them follow the project. If it is resource management - they have visibility into their directsby default.

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