Canned Project server 2003 reports?

[scubaal]

Does anyone produce a set of pre-canned Enterprise Project reports for
Project server 2003? We would like to put up a number of reports for
our executives to access through the web interface. PS2003 doesnt seem
to have anything built-in. I know we can run reports out of project
itself - but they are not dynamic.
Does anyone publish templates/add-ins that do this? We are trying to
get a head start with some basic reports that we can modify.

Al Blake, Australia

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Al --

There are numerous Project Center and detailed Project views in PWA for your
executives. I fail to see how you can make the statement that "PS2003
doesn't seem to have anything built-in." Perhaps you should share with us
your executives' reporting needs, and then perhaps we can give you some
ideas.

 

[scubaal]

I guess its the problem that 'view's arent really reports (not as far
as my executives are concerned).

Maybe I am missing something but how can I turn those views into
'reports' - such as the type of nicely formatted report you can get
from crystal reports and the like? Ideally a push-button would produce
the view in 'printer format' with headers/footers/logo etc etc.

I work for the government and senior executives are still wedded to
hard-copy they can put on the table in a meeting unfortunately. We want
them to get real-time reports from a wbe based interface but they must
render like hard-copy.

Have I missed something obvious? Ideas?

Al.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Al --

No, you are not missing anything. The Project Center views are intended to
be self-service reports for executives. Many executives, as you already
know, are stuck in the "paper reports" world. If you want to produce paper
reports by clicking a button, you will need to use a third-party application
such as SQL Reporting Services or Crystal Reports. Hope this helps.