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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 […]

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 […]

The functionality in Excel’s PowerPivot is wonderful. My favorite is the ability to add columns that contain functions, and I use this frequently for client reports. So, this is all great.  New functionality, happy clients . . . however, when I create a powerpivot data model that overlays the pivot table I display, I can […]

  With Project Server 2013 and Project Online, Microsoft replaced the server-side scheduling engine with the Project Calculation Service (PCS), bringing the power of the Project Professional scheduling engine to the browser. This new service also powered a new cloud-ready Project API, also known as the Client Side Object Model (CSOM). What’s changing? There will […]

Many customers have questions on the topic of migration to the cloud, so for example Project Server 2010 or Project Server 2013 to Project Online - and also moving data between tenants.  Perhaps a trial to the real one – or even making a copy of production in another PWA instance in the same Project […]

It can be challenging for resource managers and project managers to agree on and assign resources for specific projects and tasks. With no clear way to track who is working where, who is over-allocated—and with crossed lines of communication, things can start to break down. To address these challenges, Microsoft is introducing a new capability […]

From the Microsoft Ignite conference in May, these are some of the highlights of what we have to look forward to features being added to Project 2016. User interfaceMore fluent user interface if you are familiar with current interface you should find new features easily, and if you are new to Project hopefully features will […]

We really try to keep all our projects on schedule and in budget, but even with the best people on the job, you can have delays. This is a helpful list of 15 things you need to avoid, so you don’t screw up your next IT project from CIO Magazine: Having a poor or no […]

We work with many clients using Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Server and often people want to know the differences. Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Server 2013 on-premises are based on the same set of features and functionality, but there are differences between the two. This link provides a table with a very […]

Scenario: You navigate to Project Center and click on the icon to open the project in MS Project Professional and nothing happens. Possible Resolution: Although there may be other causes such as the client and server not being at the same version, a common cause is that the user is not using Internet Explorer. Happy […]

If you want to customize your Project Site and have those customizations show up for all NEW projects, follow the steps below (We also have a Quick Tip video on this topic): Navigate to any Project Site (I recommend creating a ‘test’ project for this purpose) Customize the site to your heart’s content (for example, […]

Working on a Project Site in Project Server 2013 or Project Online can be extremely frustrating when it’s time to navigate back to the project center or the PWA home page. From other pages, if you click on the logo in the upper left corner it automatically takes you to the PWA home page. This […]

Let me start by saying NEVER delete or edit an out of the box field on a project site for risks or issues in Microsoft Project Server or Microsoft Project Online. Doing so will create issues with syncing and you could see some of the following scenarios: Sync errors showing up the queue related to […]

We have a lot of interest from customer in using Project Online. This is a great graph that highlights the key features of Project Online and why you would want to use it: For all your questions on Project Online and Project Management please contact us today.

We get a lot of questions about portfolio analysis and we offer some great webinars on this topic. In this blog we thought it would be helpful to give you a general overview of Portfolio Analysis and how you can get started using it. A portfolio is just a collection of projects or project ideas […]