New projects hide due to category listing

[Conrad Santiago]

We are using Project Server 2003.

In a category, we moved old projects to the left hand list, "Available
projects". Our current projects are on the right hand list, "Projects in
this category".

All works well. The team only sees the current projects.

However, when a manager in this category creates a project in MSP
Professional and saves it, the project hides because it automatically shows
up on the left hand list, where the old projects are listed.

As Administrator, I have to go in and move it over.

Is there a way to set these projects up so that the newly created project is
automatically a "current project" and not hidden when first saved?

Thanks in advance for any help.
--Conrad Santiago

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi Conrad, unfortunatley the way you have chosen to use categories forces you
to manually perform this step. A better way to achieve the same thing would
be use the categories in the usual way and set up an enterprise custom field
called "Status" containing fields such as Open, closed, on hold, proposed
etc, and then create views that filter out those that are closed.

HTH,