Upgrade issue to Project 2003 Server

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Gary Johnson

Hello,

We are considering upgrading to Project 2003 Server as soon as its
available. However I have been told that the Export to Excel feature on the
Portfolion Analyser feature is designed to work with Excel XP or later.

Is that true ?

The problem is that we don't plan to upgrade to Office XP for some time due
to budet constraints, vut the additional features of Porject Server 2003
definitely make it worthwhile for us to upgrade to.

However we still need the ability to export to excel from the PA and
Resource Assignment views.

Is it possible to make the export to Excel routine Project 2003 work with
Office 2000 ??

Frankly if the answer is that we HAVE to upgrade to Office XP or later then
the cost of deploying across all our users becomes so prohibitive that we
may well have to consider an alternative solution (from an alternative
vendor). I'd prefer not to do this obviously but the export to excel is
quite important to us !

I can't believe that Microsoft would be so short sighted as to force this on
users - it seems like they would be shooting themselves in the foot !

Regards

Gary
 
T

TGG

Yep, it's true as Project 2003 is now Microsoft Office
Project 2003 and is part of the Office extended product
family.

Also, with P03, you get to export all grids (project
center, etc.) to Excel in addition to Port Analyzer.

We've upgraded some individuals to Office XP as not
everyone using the solution needs the export
functionality.

I've also heard that someone has an Office 2000 plugin to
make it work, but that may have it's own issues.

Hope this helps,
TGG
 
G

Gary Johnson

OK, so Microsoft is about to shoot themselves in the foot - BIG TIME !

By forcing Project 2003 users to HAVE to upgrade to Office XP or later then
many corporates will be thinking really hard about the cost implications of
doing that. Bottom line is that if we are forced to do that, then we won't.
We'll go with an alternative product.

I don't want to, becuase despite its misgivings I like MS Project and I'd
prefer to use it, but this cannot be in Microsoft's interests. Surely this
smacks of anti-competitive (haven't we heard that somewhere before !!).

If anyone has any information on this Office 2000 add-in I sure would
welcome some further information.

Thanks

Gary
 
G

Gary Johnson

OK, so Microsoft is about to shoot themselves in the foot - BIG TIME !

By forcing Project 2003 users to HAVE to upgrade to Office XP or later then
many corporates will be thinking really hard about the cost implications of
doing that. Bottom line is that if we are forced to do that, then we won't.
We'll go with an alternative product.

I don't want to, becuase despite its misgivings I like MS Project and I'd
prefer to use it, but this cannot be in Microsoft's interests. Surely this
smacks of anti-competitive (haven't we heard that somewhere before !!).

If anyone has any information on this Office 2000 add-in I sure would
welcome some further information.

Thanks

Gary
 
D

Duncan

Hi, the Export to Excel via portfolio anlayser (with filters/customizations) may have issues when the Office componant and the Office Suite are not in Sync, but..

....you can always attach to the OLAP cube data directly via Excel and do your analysis there. (Menu >> Data >> Get External Data...

I've found this approach works with P2003 with Office 200

Duncan
 
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