Selecting Resources in PWA Server 2003

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Jeff Sweeney

New with Project Server 2003 PWA, when a user chooses Resources, "View
Resource Assignments" he is given an opportunity to select the
resources he wishes to display.

I think this is a good thing because the pages display faster.
However, I have over 100 resources. What if I am a mechanical design
manager and want to select only my mechanical designers? It takes a
long time to go through the list to find my resources and add them to
the "Resources to display:" window.

It seems I either need MS Project to remember the resources I
displayed last time…or even better give me a way to quickly select all
members of a particular resource group.

I have considered modifying the .asp code and adding a button…but I am
hoping someone knows of a better/easier way??

Thanks in advance,
Jeff Sweeney
 
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Lon Swain

I use the "group" field. In the group field I designate
the resource's title...
e.g. "Developer", "QA", "Documentation", etc. Then add
the group field to the resource center display. You can
then select the group of people you want to look at.
 
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Jeff Sweeney

Thanks Lon...
....but are you speaking about Server 2003? I seem to remember being
able to do that in the good old days of 2002.

Being able to add "group" to the select resources pane in the "View
resource assignments" would be a great solution [assuming I could then
sort by group]...but how do I customize this? I cannot find it in the
manage views section.

(Click "Resources", "view resource assignments" to see which section I
am talking about)

Thanks!
 
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Jeff Sweeney

I created a solution...I am not proud of the solution but I have one.
:)

I wrote a VB app that queries the project database to find the users
in the group that I want selected....from there, the routine
calculates the required keyboard keystrokes to select the desired
group. The keystrokes are simply sent to PWA with the trusty old
SendKeys command.

I now plan on doing the same thing to select groups in the portfolio
anaylzer.
 
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