Re: Managing Closed Projects???

From: Bryan Andrews (bandrews_at_trendinfluence.com)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:18:43 -0500

Is there anything programmatically that can be done?

Seems like it would be simple enough to create a isClosed bit column and
alter the Stored Procedure to not show these by default...

"Dale Howard [MVP]" <dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com> wrote in
message news:%23oIfyKT4EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Andrea --
>
> If you want to leave the closed projects in the Project Server database
> and still see the hours in the Portfolio Analyzer views, you can remove
> the tasks for all closed projects from the timesheets of those projects'
> team members by doing the following:
>
> 1. Open a closed project
> 2. Click Tools - Build Team from Enterprise
> 3. Set the Booking Type for each team member to Proposed
> 4. Click the OK button
> 5. Click Collaborate - Publish - All Information
> 6. Repeat steps 1-5 for every closed project
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
> Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> "We wrote the book on Project Server"
>
>
> "Andrea" <Andrea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EAD47548-1CAD-463D-80AF-16776052E095@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> since we have implemented MsProject Server in January 2004, we have a
>> long
>> list of projects on the server. Some of them are still open but some of
>> them
>> are completed and must be closed. I don't think that Microsoft thought
>> of a
>> way to close completed projects so that users won't see tasks coming from
>> projects that are closedin their time ***.
>>
>> In fact, we have a lot of complaints coming from users who have over a
>> thousand tasks in their time *** and 50% of these tasks are coming from
>> completed projects.
>>
>> Is there a way to manage completed project so that we can still see them
>> in
>> the OLAP cube but not in time***.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Andrea
>
>