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We were dealing with this issue today when attempting to save a rather large project schedule.  The project would create the getting queued message in the queue them immediately fail.  We knew that meant the information from the Project Client was not reaching to the Server. That made us think that issue is related to […]

I was receiving this error at a customer site recently.  They had no workflows setup in the system, although they did have all the necessary objects installed to deploy Project Server workflows.  In order to get around this issue I deployed a stateless workflow.  Steps are outlined below: Queue:◦GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) - WorkflowCheckinNotify.ProjectCheckinNotifyWorkflowMessage. Details: id='26000' name='GeneralQueueJobFailed' […]

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 […]

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.

We love using Excel with Project Online or Project Server to pull updated live data at any time. Often, our clients want to see this data with some sort of conditional formatting.  Maybe it’s a heatmap throughout a numbers grid, or perhaps text highlighted  in bold or red when a number exceeds a threshold. In […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

This is the third and final piece of our Real Time Reporting mini series.  The previous posts discussed the primary reporting tools available out of the box, and how to manage the data in a coordinated way so as to produce portfolio level reporting: Real-Time-Reporting-in-Project-Online-and-Project-Server-2013 part I Real Time Reporting in Project Online and Project […]

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 […]

This falls under SharePoint upgrade but I have seen clients creating sites using Fabulous 40 templates in the same database where PWA resides and it breaks the Microsoft Project server 2013 upgrade. So, run below command to verify if Fab 40 templates are installed in Project Server 2007 environment or not: stsadm -o enumtemplates > […]