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Project Center is a great tool for presenting a portfolio in a snapshot. Using the right filters and grouping, you can quickly show health across the portfolio, projects grouped by client, capitalized vs. non-capitalized projects with costs. And all of this without manipulating a report. By nature, time is not an element we frequently feature […]

When attempting to attach files to lists you may receive the a dialog box stating “File names can’t contain the following characters:  & “ ? < > # {} % ~ ?/.”.  This is recently been noted as an issue with the August 2015 cumulative update for SharePoint 2015.     As I understand it […]

We are excited to announce the availability of Project Server 2016 IT Preview. Microsoft has worked very hard over the past three years to bring the latest and greatest innovations to Project Online and incorporate feedback from customers into Project Server 2016. Project Server 2016 IT Preview provides an initial view of what is to […]

New to Microsoft Project 2016 is the ability to create multiple timelines. At Integent we take snapshots of our timelines to insert into kick off presentations and to share important key dates with our customers through emails and documents. To create a timeline in Project 2016: Click on the View ribbon and check the Timeline […]

Being a visual person, I love the idea of charts, views and graphs. These tools make it easy to tell your story at a glance.  Are our projects in good health? Do we need more resources to accomplish our goals? Is our risk level above our threshold? The primary example of this sort of reporting […]

Many customers want to know, what are the main reasons I should start using Microsoft Project Online. One of the biggest reasons we see that benefits customers is the ability to make data driven decisions. Project Online is outstanding at equipping team members with the information they need to stay informed and make better business […]

Integent is very excited to share three new features found in Project 2016: Resource engagements Multiple Timelines Tell me what you want to do….. Resource engagements takes the resource plans from previous versions of PWA and enables Project Managers to view this information directly in Project Pro in the new Resource Plan view. Resource plan […]

Last week, we talked about using the Odata Timeset table to create time phased reports in Excel: Project Online - Time Phased Reporting in Excel - INTEGENT BLOG We noted the Timeset table provides Week number, Month number and Quarter number for all dates between 1984 and 2049. However, our data often extends across multiple […]

We are all looking for ways to improve our performance and get more done. Here a five simple ideas: Reassess Your Project Stakeholders for Better Communications - Depending on the length of a project, it may be necessary to check back with your stakeholders to see if there are any new contacts or if any […]

I recently had a few customers request a support session to fix timesheets that could not be edited as well as changes to the Home Page and various web parts. The Administrators were not performing the changes. In 2013 for both on premise and Project Online, users can edit the web parts in PWA and […]

Time Phased Reporting presents special challenges for Project Online users.  The good news is that a simple timesaving solution has been provided. There is an entity set (essentially a table) provided called TimeSet.  This table contains a row for every date from 1984-2049. For each of these dates, fields are provided for Quarter, Month, etc: […]

Ever wonder how Microsoft Project Server is calculating those Resource Availability numbers on the Requirements Details page in Portfolio Analysis? First make sure you have the Highlight Deficit checkbox selected. This highlights the months in red where you have deficits. Let’s focus on the month of September and the role of Product Engineer. I scrolled […]

Cloud data security is a huge issue right now with all companies. Keeping your data safe and keeping others out of your data is critical for success. This is a great list of items to keep your data and your company information safe: 1. Know Your Data Regardless of age, gender, experience or status, we […]