Saving Master Projects To The Server

[Sinister]

I've read in a few places that you should save your master projects to your
local drive as opposed to the EPM server. Why is this?

 

[JulieS]

Hello Sinister,

I am not a server expert by any means, but I believe the issue is with
publishing master projects (consolidated) to the Project Server which
causes duplicate assignments for resources in PWA. I believe that later
versions of Project Server had an administrative option to not allow the
saving the consoldiated or master projects to the server.

See:
http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/interprojectlinks.htm

For questions relating to Project Server or Project Web Access, please
post your questions to the Project Server newsgroup.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
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[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Sinister --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question,
the people who state that you should never save a master project to Project
Server are INCORRECT! It is safe to save a master project in either Project
Server 2002 or 2003, but you should NEVER PUBLISH a master project using
either of those versions, as this leads to duplicate task assignments on the
PWA timesheet page for each resource assigned to tasks in the subprojects.
In Project Server 2007, on the other hand, you can safely save AND publish a
master project without the duplication of task assignments issue. Hope this
helps.

 

[Sinister]

Thank you both for the info.

Sorry, I will make sure to post in the correct forum next time.

 

[JulieS]

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. Don't worry about the post
to the wrong newsgroup. It happens frequently and you were just in luck
that one of the resident server experts (Dale) dropped by. Most
responders do read all of the newsgroups, but the server folks are more
focused on the server newsgroup, so you're more likely to get a quicker
answer there.

Julie