Microsoft finally made the much anticipated announcement that Project Server 2016 will be officially released to consumers this coming May. Now you may or may not already know that Project Professional 2016 and Project Pro for Office 365 (Project Online) have already been released. So what does this mean to you? EPMA has been testing Read more about Project Server 2016 to be Released in May 2016[…]
Sometimes in Project Server we have a requirement to make a custom field read only after a value was provided. A good example will be changing a project a custom Project ID field after approval. Now, if you have a Workflow implemented in Project Server, this will be controlled by the workflow. However, in our Read more about Read only Custom Fields Using jQuery[…]
When you create a new Project Enterprise Custom field in project server 2013, you may include spaces and other special characters in the field name and it will work just fine. When you use the OData feed/service for reporting, however, you notice the field’s name is slightly different. The OData service will try to normalize the field name Read more about Project Custom Fields and OData[…]
We recently had a client contact our EPMA support team asking for help with Tasks missing from user’s timesheets. There are many reasons a task might not show up on a Team Member’s timesheet and some are predictable. This would be applicable in Project Online as well. At the end of a project, a project Read more about Project Assignments Not Displaying on a Timesheet in MS PPM/Project Server/Project Online[…]
Background An intriguing question was asked recently in the Project Server General Questions and Answers user forum. Although I was not the person who answered the question, I thought the question and the solution were worth sharing with you. A user stated that she had customized the Standard calendar with company holidays set up as Read more about Schedule a Resource to Work on a Holiday[…]
Background In a recent post in the Project Online General Questions and Answers user forum, a Project Server administrator asked us to confirm that the best practice for controlling permissions for a user is to add the user to one or more security Groups, as needed. I answered his question in the affirmative; yes, the best Read more about Quickly Reset Permissions for User Accounts in Project Server[…]
Want to spruce up your Microsoft Project Server or Microsoft Project Online implementation and give it a bit more curb appeal? Here are some things you can do make your Microsoft PPM system look more appealing and useful to everyone using it: 1. Add your company or team logo to Project Web App (PWA) and Read more about 16 Easy Spring Projects to Boost Your Microsoft PPM Curb Appeal[…]
I came across another issue with a client’s Project Server recently that was isolated to one specific project that was published on the client’s PWA environment. This client’s environment uses Project Server (PWA) 2010 and Project Pro 2010. A project schedule that was already published into PWA was opened by the PM from Project Pro. Read more about Gantt Chart View Corruption on a PWA Published Schedule in Microsoft Project Pro[…]