Feb11
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.
Feb5
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.
Feb3
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.
Jan27
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.