Enterprise Global settings not applyinng to new projects

[Garon]

I have changed my Enterprise Global settings. I changed the Calculation Tab
- Calculation Options to move start & end of completed parts to the Status
Date.

All 4 checkboxes have been checked to ON

I also made changes to the Schedule Tab - Default Task Type checkboxes.

After saving and closing the Enterprise Global, Closing Project Professional
and even a cold reboot ofthe PC, when I create a new Project none of these
options have been defaulted through. I need to manual go an change the
settings on all new projects.

I have checked the Enterprise Global and the changed settings are correctly
set the way I wanted them, so the details did save.

Can anyone advise
a) Should these values be defaulting to new projects (I though that was the
purpose of the Enterprise Global.
b) Do all settings default from mthe Global innto new projects or only some
c) Does anyone know if this is a known software fault.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Garon --

You are misunderstanding the purpose and function of the Enterprise Global
file. As a result, the changes you have made in the Enterprise Global will
have absolutely no impact on any projects in the system. The Enterprise
Global file serves only two purposes:

1. It is your organization's "library" of enterprise custom objects, such
as fields and outline codes, Views, Tables, Filters, Groups, Reports, etc.

2. It specifies the default currency for all projects.

If you wish to control the Options for all projects in your Project Server
database, you must require that all of your PM's make those settings the
default settings in Microsoft Project Professional, and you must also make
those settings in every enterprise project template. Hope this helps.

 

[Garon]

The medicine is bad, but I suppose I just have to swallow. Thanks for the
update.