Project Files stored in Sharepoint

[Rob]

Can Project .mpp files be stored in sharepoint?

We have a document library where we have stored several .mpp project files.
When we try to access these files we get an error saying

"Project does not support resource pooling on a web server"

Has anyone ever seen this before?

Rob Cuscaden

 

[Reid McTaggart]

I think that your mpp is using shared resources. (See Tools > Resource
Sharing > Share Resources).

 

[Rob]

Reid,

Thanks for your reply. I am not a Project guy (SharePoint is my game) so I
am not sure what "Share Resources" does.

(I am the SharePoint Portal admin and a user cannot access some .mpp files
stored in a SharePoint doc lib. So it is my problem because SharePoint does
not work)

In the doc lib there is a .mpp file that does not have the Shared Resources
and I can access that file just fine. But if I try to "turn on???" shared
resources I get the same error

"Project does not support resource pooling on a web server".

Does this sound like some type of functionality that Project and SharePoint
together don't support???

Thanks again
Rob Cuscaden

 

[Reid McTaggart]

If you want the Shared Resources functionality to work, the user must
download the project to a local or network drive and then enable resource
sharing.

You could get away from all this hassle if your organization were to upgrade
to Project Server.

 

[Rob]

Thanks for the input. (funny we were just talking about installing Project
Server yesterday If that is what we need to do, then I will pass that
along to the powers that be in our organization.)

Thanks
Rob Cuscaden