Creating web tasks in Project Server via PDS

[Tony Bull]

Greetings,

I'm a software developer with a question on the Project Data Service (PDS)
API for Project Server 2003.

I'm working with a trial version of Project Server 2003 and am using PDS to
test the feasibility of incorporating project-management-functionality in a
custom Line of Business web application.

As a starting point, let's assume there's a project in the Project Server
database that I want to add a task to. When I use the ProjectTasksCreate
method of PDS, a task is created and assigned without a problem, but it
doesn't show up when I use the AssignmentsGet method (also of PDS.)

With Project Professional 2003, I noticed that whenever I create, save, and
publish a task and then use the AssignmentsGet method, I see the task.

Having taken a look around in the database of Project Server, I see that
there are two tables that seem to matter: MSP_ASSIGMENTS and
MSP_WEB_ASSIGNMENTS.
I've noticed that when a task is added via Project Professional, an entry is
made in MSP_WEB_ASSIGNMENTS. When a task is added and assigned using
ProjectTasksCreate, no entry is made in MSP_WEB_ASSIGNMENTS.

Is this by design?

Thank you,

Tony

 

[Og]

Tony:

This newsgroup is populated with users familiar with the common MS Office
applications.

You are much more likely to received an informed and intelligent response if
you post your MS Project Server development question, located here:

microsoft.public.project.developer

Here are some other newsgroups that you might find useful:
microsoft.public.project.server
microsoft.public.project.pro_and_server

Good luck,

steve