Problem with publishing projects from PWA

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Robert

Hello,

This has to do with Project Server 2007

The issue I am having is with the feature where you can save and
publish a project after accepting task updates from resources in PWA.
You go into project center, select the project you want to republish
and choose the edit project properties button. This takes you into
the project properties in PWA. I used to come in here, hit the save
and publish button and it would pop a box up further up the page and
show the save and publish % done. Now when I push the button it does
nothing. It will sit there for 5 minutes, then sometimes a Microsoft
Error Reporting window will come up. If I hit details on that window,
it has a couple error reports from different days but nothing from
today. I checked event viewer and there is also no errors for right
now, just earlier today. Tried this on several different projects and
different computers. Nothing has changed that I am aware of and this
worked last week. So any idea's on what to try?
 
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Ben Howard

Hi Robert,
Is the queue functioning correctly. Have you restarted it? Does the project
publish okay from ProjectPro? Are you getting any errors in the event logs?
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

Robert --

If you want to publish the project from within PWA after accepting task
updates from team members, you can do so from the Task Updates page. Click
the Go To button above the data grid and click the Applied Requests and
Errors item on the pick list. Click the Publish button on that page, select
the project whose updates you wish to publish in the Project Web Access
Project Publish dialog, and then click the Publish button. Personally, I
prefer to publish the changes from the Microsoft Project 2007 plan because I
want to review the project schedule after changes, analyze variance, make
plan revisions, and reschedule uncompleted work in the past BEFORE I publish
the latest schedule, but that's just me.

By the way, the problems you experienced from the Project Center page were
problems I have experienced as well. I have logged this as a bug in Project
Server 2007. Hope this helps.
 
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Robert

Hi Robert,
Is the queue functioning correctly. Have you restarted it? Does the project
publish okay from ProjectPro? Are you getting any errors in the event logs?
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The queue is functioning properly. We can publish projects from
Project Pro with no problem. I have tried restarting the services and
the server itself. Like I said, no errors in the event log.
 
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Robert

Robert --

If you want to publish the project from within PWA after accepting task
updates from team members, you can do so from the Task Updates page. Click
the Go To button above the data grid and click the Applied Requests and
Errors item on the pick list. Click the Publish button on that page, select
the project whose updates you wish to publish in the Project Web Access
Project Publish dialog, and then click the Publish button. Personally, I
prefer to publish the changes from the Microsoft Project 2007 plan because I
want to review the project schedule after changes, analyze variance, make
plan revisions, and reschedule uncompleted work in the past BEFORE I publish
the latest schedule, but that's just me.

By the way, the problems you experienced from the Project Center page were
problems I have experienced as well. I have logged this as a bug in Project
Server 2007. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Dale. I will have to get some updates into me, then test
this. The only reason they want to do it from PWA is that they are
going to be managing so many projects, they want to be able to publish
them at any given time without opening each one of them individually
in Project Pro. If there is a better way to do this, let me know.
Thanks.
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

Robert --

I think I have given you the best way to handle this. It allows the PM to
publish the project changes from within the Task Updates page, which is
easier than navigating to the Project Center page, I believe. Hope this
helps.
 
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