columns missing upon opening project

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Melissa Kirk

We are running in an Enterprise Porject environment with
Project Pro 2002 & Project Server/SQL/SharePoint backend.
PM's are adding columns they want to a specific plan,
saving it, and publishing the plan. When they open it
from the server, the columns they added and want are
gone. They always get a message stating that the edits to
the global will not be saved and they should open the
global.mpt and make changes so they can be used by
everyone. But not every PM wants these columns on every
project. Isn't there a way for these columns to stay in
the project plan without modifying the global.mpt. I have
looked at the organizer to keep these customizations and
it doesn't seem to work. Two things, the option is not
global.mpt as the source file- I see 'global + cached
enterprise' as the source. Furthermore, as a field choice
the desired fields are already available to the project
plan. What am I missing?
 
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Kevin Flanagan

The only views available to them upon opening a project
is what is setin the Enterprise Global. If they need to
consistently see those columns in that order than they
must create a table and then a view applying that table
to the view. Once saved, it will be available to them
each time they open the project.

Kevin
 
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Dale Howard

Melissa --

Ask your Project Server administrator to create a special custom Table and
custom View in the Enterprise Global. The custom Table should include the
special columns that the PM's want to see. The custom View should include
the new Table in its definition. The Project Server administrator should
then save and close the Enterprise Global, and then close Microsoft Project
2002.

The Project Server administrator should also ask every PM to close Microsoft
Project 2002 as well. When each PM logs back into Project Server through
Microsoft Project 2002 again, each of them will be able to apply this new
custom View to the project in question. This is how corporate Views,
Tables, Filters, Groups, etc. can be distributed quickly to all Microsoft
Project users in your company. Hope this helps.
 
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