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Creating Status Reports with Project Online and SharePoint Designer (Part 1)
This blog started way back when with a post on creating status reports. Back then, my go to method was to leverage an InfoPath form embedded in a Project Server PDP. The key was to pull the...
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Creating Status Reports with Project Online and SharePoint Designer (Part 2)
In the last post, we created two lists, one to hold the workflow trigger and one to capture the status of the project. In this post, I’ll run through how to leverage workflow to capture project data...
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Creating Status Reports with Project Online and SharePoint Designer (Part 3)
In the last post, we created a workflow to trigger a status reporting process. In this post, we’ll look at how to create a trigger for the workflow and embed it on a PDP for easy access and intuitive...
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Creating Status Reports with Project Online and SharePoint Designer (Part 4)
In the last several posts, we created a couple lists and the workflow logic to move data back and forth. In this post, we’ll continue to work on the user interface to support our status reporting by...
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Creating Status Reports with Project Online and SharePoint Designer (Part 5)
In the last couple of posts, I talked about how to leverage SharePoint workflow and OData to create a status reporting mechanism in Project Server and Project Online. Let me recap. On second thought,...
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A Simple Archive Workflow Example
It’s a workflow kind of month, and I figured I’d post this quick article on how to leverage UMT’s Project Essentials 2012 with Project Server 2010 to generate a no-code archive process. In this case,...
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SharePoint Conference Project Server BI Linkfest
Thanks everyone for coming out to #SPC171 just now, where Microsoft’s Mike McLean and I skimmed a rock over what’s new in Project Server 2013 BI. Looking for more? Well, you came to the right place....
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Exporting MPP Files with VBA
Well, I didn’t deliberately intend to get into a VBA rut, but periodically, I like to clean out some of the half written posts I have lying around, and it turns out that I apparently left a couple VBA...
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Importing Files to Project Online with VBA
In yesterday’s post, I talked about how to run a script to export all of our Microsoft Project schedules into XML files. In this post, I’ll provide the script to import these into a new instance of...
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Fixing SharePoint Sync Errors in Project Server 2010
Here’s a common issue I am finally getting around to blogging up: certain projects always seem to throw an error on Publish, specifically on the part of the Publish job where the Publish database data...
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Quick and Dirty Project Server Forensics: Rummaging in the Archive Attic
Disclaimer: What I am about to discuss is bad, and wrong, and should never, ever be done. I would never encourage anyone to do this, nor would I ever do this myself. Hence, this post is entirely...
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Bulk Importing Projects into 2013
I feel that I’ve spent a good chunk of my life bulk importing projects into Project Server. That usually happens as part of an initial data load, when we first populate the system with new projects –...
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Adding Users in a Test Project Server Environment
Ran into this problem a couple of weeks ago and figured it was worth a post. I’d created a new instance in a test domain (tAD) to support training. This domain had a one way trusted relationship to...
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Required Reading for Project Server 2013 Administrators
I just wanted to draw your attention to Brian Smith’s posting over on the Microsoft Project Support Blog:...
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Project Online: Step 1…Kill the Default PWA Site
After more than a year of watching folks adopt Microsoft’s Project Online, one thing we’ve noticed is that most organizations tend to have multiple Project Web Apps (DEV, PROD, Marketing, IT, etc.)....
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