Time sheet webservices or API?

[ThatRickGuy]

Hello!
I am a .Net developer. Until about 6 months ago our IT shop had a custom
time tracking application written in Silverlight. It was exceptionally smooth
with auto completes, notes, and a wide assortment of other indicators that
helped us identify critical projects and time allotment.

Then we switched to MS Project Web Access. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE
Project, and that I can use it on the web is awesome. But the Time Sheet
interface over the web is horrendous. It's slow, cludgey, inconsistent, and a
royal pain in the butt.

So around the shop we were chatting about it. The Silverlight application
we have could easily enough be adapted to have the same functional back end
while stream lining the user experience. But I'm not sure what is available
from Project for either web services or an API that we can call from our own
web services for time sheets. Any idea where I could start looking to find
more info on these interfaces?

-Rick

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Rick,

This sounds like some development work. Try posting on the microsoft.public.project.developer newsgroup (forum). Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Hello!
I am a .Net developer. Until about 6 months ago our IT shop had a custom
time tracking application written in Silverlight. It was exceptionally smooth
with auto completes, notes, and a wide assortment of other indicators that
helped us identify critical projects and time allotment.

Then we switched to MS Project Web Access. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE
Project, and that I can use it on the web is awesome. But the Time Sheet
interface over the web is horrendous. It's slow, cludgey, inconsistent, and a
royal pain in the butt.

So around the shop we were chatting about it. The Silverlight application
we have could easily enough be adapted to have the same functional back end
while stream lining the user experience. But I'm not sure what is available
from Project for either web services or an API that we can call from our own
web services for time sheets. Any idea where I could start looking to find
more info on these interfaces?

-Rick