Add Publish Column to Enterprise Template

[Carla Evans]

I've tried to add the Publish column set to the value of Yes to an Enterprise
project template but the column will not save. Any ideas?

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi Carla,
This worked for me. What error message(s) did you get?

 

[Carla Evans]

"Edits will not be saved. Any edits to Enterprise Global Template items are
only available during this session. Make edits in the checked out Enterprise
Global Template to make them available to all users of this project server."
I'm an EPMS 2007 Administrator, so I know I have the right permissions level
and I have made other adjustments to to our Enterprise Templates in the
recent past.
-I select OK to the message and the Publish column appears.
-Save As
-Save to Project Server
-Type in the original template name
-Select the Type as Template, and it asks me if I want to save over the
existing template.
-OK
But when I reopen the Enterprise template, the column for Publish disappears.

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Carla:

It really sounds like you're trying to save changes to an Enterprise Project
View and not an Enterprise Project Template. In order to make changes like
this, you need to checkout the Enterprise Global Template which contains the
enterprise views. So it sounds like you want to add the published column to
a specific view. In that case, Open Project connected to the server, apply
the view that you want to modify, Check out the Enterprise Global, add the
column to the view, save and close the Enterprise Global. (Note: do not
apply other views while you're editing this one and have the Enterprise
Global open otherwise you risk polluting the Enterprise Global file. This
change will apply to all users of the view.

If you want an Enterprise Project Template to contain a local view with this
column exposed, you can copy the view into the Enterprise Project Template
and save it. This view will only be available to users who start their
projects using the Enterprise Project Template.