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Navigate to the Office 365 portal as an administrator Navigate to the SharePoint Management area Click the checkbox on front of the PWA site collection you want to change the permissions mode for Click the Project Web App button and from the sub-menu select Settings On the Site collection with project web app settings dialog […]

Most of the reports I create have a time element… Which client used the most project hours last year? ….. How many hours are my QA people scheduled to work next month?  Without that time framework, the information is less valuable. Time phased reports do, however, have an unfortunate side. The tables we must use […]

At Integent we spend a lot of time training our customers. When budgets are cut training seems to be one of the first things to go leading us to believe that many organizations do not understand the importance of training. Why is training critical to success? It is crucial to early adoption of a new […]

Recently, we were working on a nice set of Project Online timesheet reports for a client.  The fields we needed were in these Odata tables: Tasks TimesheetLines TimesheetLineActualDataSet We knew we were going to need to create some calculated fields, so we decided to use PowerPivot.  We needed to create relationships between these 3 tables, […]

No Good Portfolio Data Unless Everybody Plays!  Lets put that project portfolio management (PPM) system to work.  The organization has a high level of maturity with PPM tools and understands how utilizing plays a part in the organizations return on investment.

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

We receive questions on how to leverage the OData connections quite often, therefore, I thought I’d write up a quick-start. Navigate to the Business Intelligence/Reports section of PWA Locate your OData connections.  There can be several ways to do this.  here’s one: Click on the Gear in the top-right, then select Site Contents Locate and […]

Last week we talked about which reporting tools are real time in Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Server 2013: Real Time Reporting in Project Online and Project Server 2013. This week, let’s talk about the data behind that reporting. Since you are reporting across the enterprise, getting all the data correct at one time […]

One thing that can make our rollout of Microsoft Project a success is understanding how our data shows up in reporting and views.  This is true whether we’re using Microsoft Project Online or Microsoft Project Server. At MS Project Now, we’ve seen a wide assortment of client reporting needs. One critical piece is always the […]

A recent client wanted MS Project Now to help them quickly and efficiently upgrade them from Microsoft Project Server 2007 to 2013. One of their big concerns was in training their global workforce. This company needed specific classes that addressed the needs of the entire organization, not just the people in the US. They needed […]

Hello! On a regular basis we get questions from customers and others asking where they may be able to find more information on how to use, or get started, with Microsoft Project Online.  With the simplicity in which people can subscribe to Microsoft Project Online, the sign-ups are numerous.  Unlike other office products that are […]