Save Time by Publishing Projects Online in Project Server 2010
Why wait for a Service Pack when you can save your project managers hours of time now?
Issue – A Project Manager receives a task update from a team member in Project Web App (PWA) and after approving that update, the Project Manager then must go to Project Professional and open and publish each project for the updates to apply to the schedule. This is a very time consuming activity and is prone to error if a project gets accidentally missed.
Solution 1 – Wait for the release of Service Pack 1 from Microsoft where an auto publish feature will be available.
Solution 2 – Following your normal task approval, publish the project in PWA using this tip.
From the PWA Quick Launch, click Approval Center.
On the Approvals tab on the Ribbon, in the Navigate group, locate the History button.
From the History list, click Status Updates
In the list of recently approved updates, locate the recently approved tasks that are showing a Status of Unpublished.
Select the check box next to each Unpublished task and click Publish.
Done!!
Note: This also works if you have configured Project Server for Single Entry Mode.
You can continue working on other activities in PWA as desired and now only use Project Professional for more detailed analysis or additional changes to the schedule.
Hope this saves you time,
Cindy
Cindy Lewis, MCTS, MCITP, MCT, PMP, PMI-SP
Advisicon | Senior Project Advisor
‘Helping You Build A Project Management Culture’
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Nice work -
This feature works great. Too bad Microsoft removed the ability to filter on the columns in the history view.
thank you