Posted by: Tania Barra-Shaw Harmelink on January 8, 2020
If you are having issues reporting on your project resources availability, either through the Resource Centre or Portfolio Optimisation, don’t panic. The first instinct will be to wonder what Project Online has done to your data; and the answer is nothing. All Resource utilisation data is available, the trick is to simply make it visible
Posted by: Cheston Hsu on November 20, 2019
Problem: I have a custom field named “Schedule Status” and for some reason despite a value appearing on a PDP (Project Details Page) there is no value appearing in my OData feed. Below is the PDP that shows the current RAG Statuses of my project: And below is the feed I get from OData: Notice
Posted by: Dan Stopher on October 16, 2019
Background An organisation decides to synchronise with an Active Directory (AD) group to populate either their enterprise Resource Pool or a User group such as Team Members in Microsoft Project Online. The IT department deactivates a user in the AD Group and a synchronisation with Project Online occurs after the deactivation. Outcome As expected, the
Posted by: Ahmed Taee on September 13, 2019
What is OData API OData is an open data access protocol to provide access to a data source on a website. It is used, for example, in Azure and in SharePoint, and by Project Online to access PWA metadata. Because those metadata are accessible through OData, API now can provide a native built-in method to
Posted by: Eremo Zanye on July 23, 2019
Cache is a component of Microsoft Project that stores your project data locally on your computer, the concept exists to boost the speed in which data is retrieved. The functionality works in such a way that when you save a project for the first time, all the data information about that project is saved in
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Posted by: Dan Stopher on July 2, 2019
In the PPM community it is fairly well understood that we can use the “Lock Tasks to Timesheets” function to stop a timesheet user being able to log time against those tasks in a timesheet. However, I recently had the request where the client was not logging effort against tasks but rather projects and wanted
Posted by: Cheston Hsu on June 26, 2019
The Project Site Template dictates the look, feel as well as the contents of a project site when created. Hence, it is extremely important that any changes that are made on the template are changes that you would like to see on your FUTURE project site. The below is a guide on how to update
Posted by: Ahmed Taee on June 14, 2019
I was faced with a requirement to produce unique project numbers in sequence despite of the project EPT type. Project numbers such as: PPMxxxxxx (x are consecutive numbers starting from 000001). Requirements Project Server 2016 or Project Online. SharePoint Designer 2013. So this was the approach I took in producing the unique project numbers: Create
Posted by: Cheston Hsu on June 5, 2019
Users when seeing this button may use it to remove a task from their timesheet without understanding what it truly does. The intent of this button is for user, to reject a task that has been assigned to them. Once the rejection has been approved by the project manager, the user is no longer assigned
Posted by: Peter Williams on May 28, 2019
The Problem I had a need to create report that consumed the following data sources: Project Online timesheet data SharePoint Online list info On-Premise SharePoint list info Zendesk ticket data I have a reasonable amount of experience using PowerBI to query and consolidate this information. My desire was to have a report that used essentially
