Insert a column in GANTT view to have link to Workspace

[kahuna]

Personally, I am not a fan of the Project Workspace list taking up so much
space and cluttering up the default homepage for PWA users. I was wondering,
if we could add a column in the GANTT view of the Project Center and have
users be able to click on the correct row to access the workspace instead?
Any tips much appreciated.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hi Kahuna,

In the Home page of PWA you can remove the Project Workspaces WebPart, and
create a new page dedicted to this Project Workspaces WebPart.
On the other hand, when your users are in Project Pro, the Collaborate menu
can lead them to the Issues, Risks... which are not far from the Project
Workspace.

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Kahuna:

There's no need for this extra gyration as the Project Center already
contains this functionality. Select a project row and click on the "Go To"
menu in the toolbar.

 

[kahuna]

Agree. However, a simple icon/link on the Project Center Gantt row to access
the respective workspace could save so much real estate and make it easier
too...

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

kahuna --

By default, the Project Center web part includes the Indicators column on
the left side of the view. This column shows indicators for every project
that has Risks, Issues, or Documents associated with it. The user can
simply click on one of the indicators for a particular project to navigate
to that project's Workspace. It doesn't get much easier than that!
Hope this helps.

 

[kahuna]

Thanks Dale for the insight. But I don't see the indicator for the views that
we have enabled in our org. Please advise which View you are looking at in
the Project Center that displays the indicator. Also, what is the field name
of the indicator? I could try adding it to the Summary or Work view in
project center. Thanks a bunch.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

kahuna --

By default, every Project Center view includes the Indicators field. Keep
in mind, however, that users do not see any Workspace-related indicators in
this column for any project until someone creates at least one Risk or
Issue, or uploads a document into the Document Library for that project.
And then the PM must also publish the project for the relevant indicator to
appear. If a project does not have any Risks, Issues, or documents
associated with it, then there won't be an indicator for the Project
Workspace, and then you need to fall back to the steps Gary Chefetz
recommended in his last post. Hope this helps.

 

[Xavier HOVASSE]

Hi, personally I use it the way you said. Here's how I did :

As ProjectWorkspace is not an available field, I created a custom
field (project, text field) where I set once the url of
projectWorkspace. (This even can become a formula if your Project
workspace name is alway as suggested (url : path/title...)).
I add this column in the project center view. Dont show text but nice
icon.
Then anyone who access to this view can click on the link and open
projectWorkspace.
see screenshot of this : http://www.ixila.com/wp-content/uploads/ProjectWorkspacelink.png

Hope this help you
Regards,
Xavier HOVASSE
www.ixila.com

 

[Mohfeza Khatoon]

Dear Howard,

Your blog helped me a lot to understand indicator field in project center. It would be appreciate if you can give me further clarification on it.

Risk and issue does not come to indicator if I don't publish the project after adding a new risk/issue or editing existing ones to a project. Please let me know if it is a normal behavior. If not, what step should I take to resolve this issue. FYI, it is project server 2007.
Please reply me as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Mohfeza Khatoon



kahuna --

By default, every Project Center view includes the Indicators field. Keep
in mind, however, that users do not see any Workspace-related indicators in
this column for any project until someone creates at least one Risk or
Issue, or uploads a document into the Document Library for that project.
And then the PM must also publish the project for the relevant indicator to
appear. If a project does not have any Risks, Issues, or documents
associated with it, then there will not be an indicator for the Project
Workspace, and then you need to fall back to the steps Gary Chefetz
recommended in his last post. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
VP of Educational Services
msProjectExperts
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

Personally, I am not a fan of the Project Workspace list taking up so much
space and cluttering up the default homepage for PWA users. I was wondering,
if we could add a column in the GANTT view of the Project Center and have
users be able to click on the correct row to access the workspace instead?
Any tips much appreciated.

On Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:37 PM G?rard Ducouret wrote:
Hi Kahuna,

In the Home page of PWA you can remove the Project Workspaces WebPart, and
create a new page dedicted to this Project Workspaces WebPart.
On the other hand, when your users are in Project Pro, the Collaborate menu
can lead them to the Issues, Risks... which are not far from the Project
Workspace.

G?rard Ducouret

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