Posted by: Irfan Rizvi on August 10, 2017
We recently received a request from a customer relating to their governance workflow, in this case, the SPD Project Server 2013 workflow. When an approval task is assigned to a user, the customer wants a generated user email notification with a link to the task’s edit form instead of the display form (the default behaviour). This
Posted by: Irfan Rizvi on August 4, 2017
In Project Server / Project Online lookup tables, if you add a text lookup entry which contains a comma ‘,’ as such: A validation message will appear on Project Server to say: The lookup table values cannot contain the server list separator ‘,’ because, in multiple value fields, the entries are separated by a
Posted by: Ahmed Taee on June 22, 2017
Sometimes we are required to delete the web part from an existing project’s site. In this blog, I will guide you step-by-step on how to delete the web part using a PowerShell script: Run an SQL query to get the list of the projects and their URL SELECT [ProjectName] ,[ProjectWorkspaceInternalHRef] FROM [MSP_EpmProject_UserView] Copy the results with
Posted by: Irfan Rizvi on March 21, 2017
I came across this requirement quite frequently in which you have very long field names that are more than the character limit defined by Project Server. What we usually end up doing is rephrase the field name to fit the character limit and add the full text in the description. It looks something like this:
Posted by: Peter Williams on August 23, 2016
This blog attempts to explain the synchronization of SharePoint group membership/permissions for Project Server 2013. This ONLY applies when Project Server Permissions mode is enabled. Project Server to Project Web App Site Permission Synchronization Note: The statements made in this section are only applicable if the “Enable Project Web App Sync” option is turned on
Posted by: EPM Partners on July 12, 2016
Occasionally in Project Server, we encounter a situation where timesheet capture is only required at project level and not task level. The requirement in this scenario is users are only presented with one timesheet task for each project they work on. Project Server can be configured to allow top level time reporting. In my experience, this
Posted by: Peter Williams on May 4, 2016
When implementing Resource management in a Project Server environment, it can be useful to a PMO administrator to know which projects contain local resource assignments as opposed to the use of only Enterprise resources. For an On-Premise installation of Project Server 2010 or 2013, where access to the underlying databases is possible (as opposed to
Posted by: EPM Partners on July 23, 2015
The workspace list viewer webpart is a component of the Project Server 2010 SDK. It was very popular. It helped blur the barrier between the project site and the project web application (PWA). Today, this barrier is something many end users still have a hard time understanding. I often have requests to make a particular
Posted by: Peter Williams on April 13, 2015
We recently received an issue where our client was unable to see a project in their Project Status Report. They had tried publishing the project and received a “Failed But Not Blocking Correlation”. The error below was found in the project server queue: ReportingProjectChangeMessageFailed (24006) – The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint “FK_MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_ProjectUID_AssignmentUID”.
Posted by: Khurram Jamshed on March 30, 2015
This year’s most talked about event is Microsoft Ignite 2015. Unlike previous times, when Microsoft used to host separate conferences to showcase different technologies during different times of the year, this time Microsoft will be hosting an inaugural, unified Microsoft commercial technology conference the week of May 4, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. This conference will give
