Email alert format in project server 2007

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Arun

Hi,
I have two questions in project server 2007
1. Whenever I upload the project to project server 2007 from project
2007, it is sending the email alerts about the tasks to the task owners.It is
in text format.Is it possible to change the format into HTML.
2. How can change the date format in project web acess.current format is
mm/dd/yyyy, I want to change into dd/mm/yyyy.

thanks,
Arun
 
M

Marc Soester

Hi Aurun,

1. there is not configuration within Proejct Server 2007 that allows you to
change the mail from text to HTML. ( you may be able to achieve this
programatically)
2. Wihtin the PWA Home Page , on the right hand site use the tab "Site
Settings", You will be able to change the date format within this section (
sorry have no PS07 running at present, let me know if you dont find it and I
will give you detailed info)
hope this helps
 
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Boaz Lev [MSFT]

Hi,

As Marc so correctly states, you are indeed able to programmatically
transform the notification into HTML.
To do so, you write an event handler for the event you are intending to
trap, and register it on the server. The following link can be used to get
some good background information into eventhandlers
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms481079.aspx)

Hope this helps. If not, give a shout...
 
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Boaz Lev [MSFT]

Can see I got a little trigger happy here... Let me just clarify what I felt
was not all too well explained:
In your event handler, you will as one of the parameters to your handler get
a class that encapsulates the event for which your handler is registered. In
this class, you can get access to the XML snippet describing the event that
occured. This you can run through an XSLT to get HTML or what other formats
you would want.

Also, I want to clarify that I used the word "trap" to mean handle in terms
of events. I am generally (and this is a highly personal opinion) not a fan
of being able to cancel an event and starve other handlers of that event
(the link I gave will describe how to do so) -- I think the word "trap"
could be misunderstood to mean exactly that. What I meant to convey is
handle rather than trap :)
 
T

TGG

Arun,

The default for the server is text. However, in the 2007 version, my
feature team added html as a option. Unfortunately, I'm finding that people
are having a hard time finding the setting to change it. :)

If you navigate to Personal Settings, Manage My Alerts and Reminders, then
scroll to the bottom of the display. You will see a dropdown for language
setting. The choices on my server are English-Text or English-HTML.

As language packs are added and if they have both format versions, you will
see this selection extend with the language-format combination.

As Boaz also explained, you can use the pre-event to capture the generated
XML to change the default handlng behavior. Also, we are planning to release
documentation shortly to let you know how you can safely change the XSLTs for
notifications to meet your own needs.

Thanks!
Treb Gatte
Program Manager II
Microsoft Office Project Server
http://blogs.msdn.com/project
 
A

Arun

Thanks for all.
Regards,
Arun

TGG said:
Arun,

The default for the server is text. However, in the 2007 version, my
feature team added html as a option. Unfortunately, I'm finding that people
are having a hard time finding the setting to change it. :)

If you navigate to Personal Settings, Manage My Alerts and Reminders, then
scroll to the bottom of the display. You will see a dropdown for language
setting. The choices on my server are English-Text or English-HTML.

As language packs are added and if they have both format versions, you will
see this selection extend with the language-format combination.

As Boaz also explained, you can use the pre-event to capture the generated
XML to change the default handlng behavior. Also, we are planning to release
documentation shortly to let you know how you can safely change the XSLTs for
notifications to meet your own needs.

Thanks!
Treb Gatte
Program Manager II
Microsoft Office Project Server
http://blogs.msdn.com/project
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