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Feb11

Exporting the Resource Pool to Visio as an Org Chart

More along the lines of playing at the intersection of Visio reporting and Microsoft Office Project Server 2010.  The question I was looking at today was how to export the Resource Pool from Project Server into an organization chart format in Visio.  I used the Microsoft demo image and was able to generate a rough Contoso org chart as appears below: The first question is why would anyone wa...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 06:02.
0 Comments | Categories: Project Professional 2010

 
Feb5

Goodbye KAPOW! Hello New World

I’ve seen this question show up a couple of times in the forums for Microsoft Project 2010….whatever happened to the Copy Picture to Office Wizard tool? – or as I like to call it, the CPOW (pronounced KAPOW). Here’s the tool in 2007.  If you squint your eyes, it looks kind of like a camera with a blue lens: …or it can be found in the Reports menu. And here’s what it looks like in 2010. ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on Friday, 5 Feb 2010 08:30.
0 Comments | Categories: Project Professional 2010

 
Feb3

Tips and Tricks: Saving an MPP File to Access

A lot of folks ask in the newsgroups how to save a Project file to Access.  This may be done for a number of reasons: Connecting to a reporting structure. (See an old article by Neville Turbit on project reporting in Access) Connecting to a SharePoint front end.  (Richard Fennell’s take on Access Services in SharePoint 2010, a video demo of Access Services 2010) Interacting with homegrow...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on Wednesday, 3 Feb 2010 07:02.
1 Comment | Categories: Project Professional 2007, Project Professional 2010

 
Jan27

What-If Analysis with Microsoft Project 2010

I’ve attended a couple Microsoft Project 2010 events as of late, but of yet, I haven’t seen this functionality getting much play.  On first glance, I think this could be one of the most compelling new features added to Project: the task level Active field. Usage Scenarios Scenario #1: The project manager has been requested to calculate the cost and schedule impact of a potential change order....
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 07:58.
3 Comments | Categories: Project Professional 2010, Project Server 2010