Posted by: EPM Partners on March 25, 2014
Solution: Open the report in the Business Intelligence Development Tool (BIDS)/SQL data tool In the design mode, right click the date textbox and click on properties You have multiple options to do this task. Here are three options for when you select the textbox property dialog box: Option 1 Select the tab ‘Number’ then category ‘Date’ you can then
Posted by: EPM Partners on February 20, 2014
Background: I recently had a requirement from a client requiring the display of multi-value custom field values in a SSRS report. Technical Information: The RDB includes an association table view for each multi-value custom field that contains values. View names for multi-value custom fields are of the form MSPCFxxx_Custom Field Name_AssociationView, where xxx can be PRJ, RES,
Posted by: Laith Adel on February 5, 2014
EPM Partners are currently attending the Project Conference 2014 in Anaheim California and have just received a great whitepaper: Online and On-Premises Solutions for Project Server 2013. An analytical comparison of a cloud solution and an on-premises solution. We thought you would enjoy this article: Project_Server_2013_Online_and_On-Premises_Solutions.pdf
Posted by: Peter Williams on January 7, 2014
If you are unable to view the Schedule PDP in Project Server 2013 (using IE11/Windows 7) check that the Project Server web address has been added to the compatibility view setting list in Internet Explorer as per the screen shots below. Once the website has been added to the Compatibility View,
Posted by: EPM Partners on September 3, 2013
Background: When a user updates the project using the PWA, the below error message will be received via email: Your Project Update job failed. Its current state is failed. It was 50% complete. It entered the queue Error ID: 9133 Error ID: 26000 Detailed error below – send it to the administrator for more detailed troubleshooting.
Posted by: EPM Partners on July 11, 2013
In Project Server 2013 Microsoft has introduced a new permissions Mode. This mode has been introduced to try and help simplify the management approach of permissions. Many people who haven’t dealt with the project server’s permissions matrix before struggled to understand this design. Microsoft have provided an out of the box permissions mode that masks
Posted by: Laith Adel on May 16, 2013
What is Earned Value Analysis? EV is KPIs that measure the Cost and Schedule performance of a project., It’s like (green, orange and red) but better. Here is the main blocks of the EV calculations: So What? Earned value indicators that are variances or ratios can help you determine if there is enough money left
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Posted by: EPM Partners on March 27, 2013
Issue: Users don’t get prompted to Check In a document after closing the document and saving changes to a sharepoint document library. Reason: By Default, Checked OUT option is disabled in the Project Document Library settings:) Objective: To enable the Checked Out option in the Project Document list so the user will be prompted to
Posted by: EPM Partners on February 27, 2013
Issue: Project Site home page displays Closed/Corrupted WebPart on the page after saving as a Project Site Template. Cause: Web part corruption or closed web parts which have not been deleted on the page. Solution: To fix, you need to follow these steps: 1. Click on Site Actions then Site Settings. 2. Click on Site and
Posted by: EPM Partners on February 4, 2013
Problem Need to change the default project field “Owner” to another custom name such as “Project Manager” Solution Notes This is a little bit of a hack to rename the “Owner” field on the page it is displayed in without changing internally on the back end. The solution only updates the text displayed on the
