EPMA have been getting a lot of support tickets recently from users that their schedules have become corrupted. The most common scenario is this: “I opened up my project schedule and half of the task names are missing.” My first response is usually: “Did you have special characters in the schedule?” Their response will usually be: Read more about Key Causes of Project Schedule Corruption in Microsoft Project[…]
If you’re a Microsoft Project Server report developer, you’ve no doubt come across the issue of long running reports that look to output time-phased cost data. Things are just fine until you go and add the costs to the query; then your 3 second query turns into a minute and a half. Sure the OLAP Read more about How Can I Speed up my Project Costs Reports?[…]
This blog will help you create your first SharePoint Application page as quickly as possible with the least amount of effort. The prerequisites for creating a basic SharePoint Application Page will be: A computer with SharePoint 2013 installed on it. Visual Studio Professional or an edition of Visual Studio Ultimate or Visual Studio Premium. Office Developer Read more about Hello World SharePoint 2013 Application Page[…]
A Project Template is an important artifact that projects should create during their closing phase. Project Templates help in quicker planning of other similar future projects which otherwise would have to be started from scratch. Creating templates save a lot of planning time as it helps the project to know the rough estimate of project Read more about Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013[…]
A known bug has been found when a user follows the recommended practice of assigning a ‘Cost’ Resource to a summary task. When using the ‘Assign Resources’ dialogue if you specify the cost then click ‘Assign’ the cost will go to $0.00. In the scenario below I selected the cost resource, specified $3000.00 then pressed Read more about Assigning Cost Resources Bug[…]
PROJECT SERVER 2010 SAVE ERROR While trying to edit and save a project file in Microsoft Project Server 2010, I received an error message: “An error has occurred when saving your project to the server. Please contact your administrator for assistance.” After researching this error, I found that this error message is usually received when Read more about Project Server 2010 Save Error[…]
The Promoted Links app in SharePoint 2013 is a great way to graphically display a list of animated navigation tiles, similar to the tiles that appear on the PWA home page: You can use the Promoted Links app to add your own animated graphical navigation tiles to the PWA home page, Project Sites, or even Read more about Enable Promoted Links for Graphical Navigation in the Project Server/Project Online/PPM[…]
The end of 2013 is nipping at our heels; I find it hard to believe that yet another year has flown by, and I marvel at the great many things that we have accomplished at EPMA this year. If I still paid for things with written checks, then I would already start planning for the Read more about The Future of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Technology[…]